'Ethics Review, Neoliberal Governmentality and the Activation of Moral Subjects'

Autor/in	James, Fiona
Titel	'Ethics Review, Neoliberal Governmentality and the Activation of Moral Subjects'
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53 (2021) 5, S.548-558 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2020.1761327
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Neoliberalism; Risk Management; Higher Education; Educational Philosophy; Research Proposals; Power Structure; Self Management; Self Concept; Correlation; Personal Autonomy; Decision Making; Student Research; Foreign Countries; Governance; College Students; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Risikomanagement; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Forschungsgegenstand; Selbstmanagement; Selbstkonzept; Korrelation; Individuelle Autonomie; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Studentenforschung; Ausland; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Collegestudent; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article examines forms of subjectivation propagated through the processes and practices of ethics review in UK Higher Education Institutions. Codified notions of research ethics are particularly prevalent in the university context along with stringent institutional regulation of the procedures surrounding ethics review of research proposals. Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality is argued in this article to help illuminate the combination of power processes reflected in ethics review practices. These operate insidiously in accordance with a neoliberal rationality that champions self-sustaining individuals and the inauguration of human capital. Moreover, ethics review processes and attendant regulatory modes of control compound the construction of the student as a 'permanent performer' and the associated requirement for her to self-govern through risk management. A combination of overtly controlling and self-relational mechanisms of neoliberal governmentality are in operation, both of which have the potential to generate particular forms of subjectivation in the university context. Foucault's conceptualisation of the ethical relation to the self helps indicate alternative, resistant styles of self-confrontation to those correlating with neoliberal governmentality. These are based on autonomous choice-making and self-censoring rather than unquestioning conformity to the regimens of ethics review. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01