Austerity-Privacy & Fossil Fuel Divestment Activism at Canadian Universities

Autor/inn/en	McGray, Robert; Turcotte-Summers, Jonathan
Titel	Austerity-Privacy & Fossil Fuel Divestment Activism at Canadian Universities
Quelle	In: Australian Universities' Review, 59 (2017) 2, S.36-49 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0818-8068
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Activism; Fuels; Universities; Privacy; Privatization; Neoliberalism; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Investment; Governance; School Community Relationship; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Treibstoff; University; Universität; Privatsphäre; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Kanada
Abstract	Austerity has signalled several political and cultural changes in the past ten years. One frequent and highly criticised change has been the increasing privatisation that has occurred as part of the agenda. This has occurred in most levels of formal education. One related, but under-investigated, aspect of austerity has been the feature of privacy that has worked to enable the increasing privatisation. In this essay, we attempt to unpack how what we refer to as austerity-privacy has enabled formal education--specifically Canadian universities--to withdraw from critical public discourses. While not unrelated to privatisation, we argue that austerity-privacy was a necessary step for postsecondary education institutions to speed their neoliberal march. To illustrate this phenomenon, we examine the divestment movement in Canadian universities to illustrate the ways in which austerity-privacy obfuscates critics of neoliberal agendas. Conversely, we also examine the ways in which divestment can democratise the economy of university life. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01