Counter-Hegemonic Regionalism and Higher Education for All: Venezuela and the ALBA

Autor/in	Muhr, Thomas
Titel	Counter-Hegemonic Regionalism and Higher Education for All: Venezuela and the ALBA
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 8 (2010) 1, S.39-57 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Ideology; Foreign Countries; Moral Values; Latin Americans; Geographic Regions; Social Systems; Competition; Cooperation; Educational Change; Democracy; Global Approach; Political Attitudes; Privatization; Selective Admission; Venezuela + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ideologie; Ausland; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Social system; Soziales System; Wettkampf; Co-operation; Kooperation; Bildungsreform; Demokratie; Globales Denken; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Bildungsselektion
Abstract	This paper employs new regionalism theory and regulatory regionalism theory in its analysis and theorisation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) as a counter-hegemonic Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) regionalism. As (initially) the regionalisation of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, ALBA is centred around the idea of a twenty-first century socialism that replaces the "competitive advantage" with the "cooperative advantage". ALBA, as a set of multi-dimensional inter- and trans-national processes, operates within and across a range of sectors and scales whilst the structural transformations are driven by the interplay of state and non-state actors. The Venezuelan government's Higher Education For All (HEFA) policy, which is being regionalised within an emergent ALBA education space, assumes a key role in the direct democratic and participatory democratic processes upon which a bottom-up construction of counter-hegemony depends. HEFA challenges the globalised neoliberal higher education agenda of commoditisation, privatisation and elitism. Rather than producing enterprising subjects fashioned for global capitalism, HEFA seeks to form subjectivities along the moral values of solidarity and cooperation. (Contains 1 figure, 3 tables and 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10