Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilização
The economic imperatives of neoliberalism combined with the technologies of New Public Management have wrought profound changes in the organization of the workplace in many contemporary capitalist societies. Calculative practices including “performance indicators” and “benchmarking” are increasingly...
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Universidade Estadual de Londrina
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| description | The economic imperatives of neoliberalism combined with the technologies of New Public Management have wrought profound changes in the organization of the workplace in many contemporary capitalist societies. Calculative practices including “performance indicators” and “benchmarking” are increasingly being used to measure and reform public sector organizations and improve the productivity and conduct of individuals across a range of professions. These processes have resulted in the development of an increasingly pervasive “audit culture”, one that derives its legitimacy from its claims to enhance transparency and accountability. Drawing on examples from the UK, particularly the post- 1990s” reform of universities, this article sets out to analyse the origins and spread of that audit culture and to theorize its implications for the construction of academic subjectivities. The questions I ask are: How are these technologies of audit refashioning the working environment and what effects do they have on behaviour (and subjectivity) of academics? What does the analysis of the rise of managerialism tell us about wider historical processes of power and change in our society? And why are academics seemingly so complicit in, and unable tochallenge, these audit processes? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-93ae3b87c1ba43459aa94198433e28f62022-12-21T19:41:49ZengUniversidade Estadual de LondrinaMediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais2176-66652009-07-01141245310.5433/2176-6665.2009v14n1p242535Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilizaçãoCris Shore0Universidade de AucklandThe economic imperatives of neoliberalism combined with the technologies of New Public Management have wrought profound changes in the organization of the workplace in many contemporary capitalist societies. Calculative practices including “performance indicators” and “benchmarking” are increasingly being used to measure and reform public sector organizations and improve the productivity and conduct of individuals across a range of professions. These processes have resulted in the development of an increasingly pervasive “audit culture”, one that derives its legitimacy from its claims to enhance transparency and accountability. Drawing on examples from the UK, particularly the post- 1990s” reform of universities, this article sets out to analyse the origins and spread of that audit culture and to theorize its implications for the construction of academic subjectivities. The questions I ask are: How are these technologies of audit refashioning the working environment and what effects do they have on behaviour (and subjectivity) of academics? What does the analysis of the rise of managerialism tell us about wider historical processes of power and change in our society? And why are academics seemingly so complicit in, and unable tochallenge, these audit processes?http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/3341AccountabilityCultura de auditoriaTecnologias disciplinaresGovernabilidade. |
| spellingShingle | Cris Shore Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilização Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais Accountability Cultura de auditoria Tecnologias disciplinares Governabilidade. |
| title | Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilização |
| title_full | Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilização |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilização |
| title_short | Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal: universidades e a política da responsabilização |
| title_sort | cultura de auditoria e governanca iliberal universidades e a politica da responsabilizacao |
| topic | Accountability Cultura de auditoria Tecnologias disciplinares Governabilidade. |
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