"More Person, and, Therefore, More Satisfied and Happy": The Affective Economy of Reading Promotion in Chile

Autor/inn/en	Errázuriz, Valentina; García-González, Macarena
Titel	"More Person, and, Therefore, More Satisfied and Happy": The Affective Economy of Reading Promotion in Chile
Quelle	In: Curriculum Inquiry, 51 (2021) 2, S.229-260 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Errázuriz, Valentina) ORCID (García-González, Macarena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-6784
DOI	10.1080/03626784.2021.1915690
Schlagwörter	Reading Attitudes; Reading Habits; Affective Behavior; Power Structure; Neoliberalism; Psychological Patterns; Futures (of Society); Foreign Countries; Literature Appreciation; Literacy Education; Educational Policy; Political Influences; Government Publications; Illustrations; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Usage; Correlation; Cognitive Ability; Curriculum Development; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reading behavior; Rading behaviour; Leseverhalten; Reading habit; Lesegewohnheit; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Future; Society; Zukunft; Ausland; Literarische Wertung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Bildliche Darstellung; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Diskursanalyse; Sprachgebrauch; Korrelation; Denkfähigkeit; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung
Abstract	Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the "affective economies" of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile's Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these documents with Ahmed's (2004, 2010) and Braidotti's (2018) conceptualizations of the affective, we claim that when reading is presented as beneficial, pleasurable, and promising, an assemblage of exclusion is set into motion. We describe how the affective repertoires in these documents reinforce oppressive and exclusionary neoliberal values under the guise of the promise of future happiness. The pleasure and happiness that can be achieved through literary reading, however, is only accessible to those who are willing to orientate themselves in the "right ways." In this orientation, the cognitive is privileged over the emotional, and readers are supposed to learn to postpone any current demands for the promise of future happiness. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01