Du tremplin au levier

Du tremplin au levier

L’endettement massif des étudiants dans les pays anglo-saxons apparaît comme l’un des effets les plus marquants de l’irruption d’une rationalité néolibérale dans le monde de l’enseignement supérieur. Cet article vise à montrer comment le besoin d’emprunter pour étudier reformule, dans une logique de...

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Main Author: Jean François Bissonnette
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre 2017-09-01
Series:Terrains/Théories
Subjects:
The massive debt that befalls students in Anglo-Saxon countries appears as one of the most striking effects of the irruption of a neoliberal rationality into the world of higher education. This article aims to show how the need to borrow for education ref
in a logic of financial speculation
the aspirations for socio-economic advancement traditionally associated with the university degree. It first exposes the political rationality that pushed to individualize the benefits
and hence the financing of university studies
before describing the logic of “speculative leverage” that presides over the uses of credit in the economic habitus of the middle classes
which supposedly offers an instrument for accumulating assets. Considering debt as a form of disciplinary subjection
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/teth/942

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