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Burke, Penny Jane (2011) Masculinity, subjectivity and neoliberalism in men’s accounts of migration and higher educational participation. Gender and Education, 23 (2). pp. 169-184. ISSN 0954-0253
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In this article, I explore men’s educational experiences and aspirations in the context of UK policy discourses of widening participation and migration. Critiquing discourses that oversimplify gendered access to higher education, I develop an analysis of the impact of masculine subjectivities on processes of subjective construction in relation to be(com)ing a university student. Neoliberalism and self‐regulation emerge as significant themes by which the men make sense of their educational experiences and aspirations. Widening participation policy discursively constructs the subject as ‘disadvantaged’, ‘with potential’ and responsible for self‐improvement through participation in (alternative forms of) higher education (HE). The concept of diaspora illuminates the complex ways the men reconstruct their traumatic experiences in terms of hope and possibility, across different cultural spaces and expectations. A key question is how do the men construct and make sense of their masculine subjectivities in relation to diasporic experiences and aspirations to become HE students?
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | masculinity, subjectivity, aspirations, neoliberalism, access and widening participation, migration, diaspora |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Education and Social Work > Education |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher education |
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| Depositing User: | Pascale Fanning-Tichborne |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2012 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2012 14:37 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/42602 |