Search results for "Liberalism"

Problems and challenges for the Politics of Education before the change of prominence experienced by educational actors

2013

This paper deals with some of the problems that the Politics of Education has to face both as a subject and as a government action. Based above all on the literature appeared in specialized journals during the last five years, our attention is firstly focused on the concern for using an active methodology in the teaching of this subject which places students at the center of the teaching-learning process with the aim of encouraging their interest in its contents and inducing them to acquire civic competences. Secondly, the new but already deeply-rooted neoliberal conception of education is used to describe some of its policies, such as accountability, assessment and free choice of school. O…

Populismo e sterminio

2018

In this article, the author presents some features of contemporary populism, especially in its links with neoliberalism and world governance, stressing on the strong connection with conflict and new wars.

Populismo e governamentalità neoliberale

2018

In this article, Vaccaro links the recent poltiical trends on populism with the neoliberal governmentality, along the foucauldian lecture.

Postcolonialism and Decoloniality. Resistance and Counter-Conducts in the Current Neoliberalism

2020

Post and de-colonial studies define a huge and heterogeneous field of research, crossing several disciplines and territories. Their interdisciplinary interaction produces a fruitful and open space with vague boundaries. Divergent positions, sometimes even contradictory, different ways of being postcolonial prevent us from considering them as a homogeneous entity. However, the heterogeneity of the positions inside and across postcolonial and decolonial studies cannot be separated from a common basis, a core of concepts that move the analysis from the same starting point: the event of colonization.

Precarietà, flessibilità e teoria del capitale umano

2018

A partire da un punto di vista in debito con le analisi di Foucault, si cercherà di inquadrare la questione della precarietà all’interno della più ampia prospettiva dell’egemonia del neoliberalismo. In particolare, dopo aver descritto alcune delle peculiarità delle forme di vita precarie, ci si soffermerà sul programma di ricerca sul capitale umano, con il quale la riflessione pedagogica non può non aprire un confronto. A tal proposito, alla fine dell’articolo, verranno prese brevemente in esame alcune potenziali alternative al dispositivo teorico del capitale umano.

Polish zombie-proletariat. Political recomposition of class

2014

The main goal of the paper is to show, that Marxist vocabulary can still be relevant in the debate on Polish transition and helpful to establish new recomposition of the working class, that will be more effective as political subject. Political recomposition of proletariat is treated here as a main condition of ability for Polish society to make history it’s own subject again. The paper also contains: some methodological insights on the conditions of Marxism’s relevancy today; overview of some narratives on Polish transition from Marxist perspective; and my own proposal to treat the transition as a part of new wave of global enclosures, which is the essence of neoliberalism.

Enlightened paternalism: the prohibition of corporal punishment in Spanish public schools in the nineteenth century

2014

In order to analyse the cultural values of Spanish liberalism, this paper describes the prohibition of corporal punishment in secondary education. The evolution of education laws and codes during the nineteenth century reveals great hope and confidence in building up an academic authority based exclusively on the power of reason and capable of ruling an ordered society. However, the study of documents found in the Instituto de Valencia historical archives highlights the difficulty of maintaining discipline as well as managing the political motivations of rebellious students, who demanded more autonomy from the academic authority.

Tre leggende su Gramsci

2014

Lo nuestro es lo de todos

2008

Authoritarian Neoliberalism : Its Ideological Antecedents and Policy Manifestations from Carl Schmitt’s Political Economy of Governance

2018

The regime of authoritarian neoliberalism is underway. In contemporary political economy of governance, this regime has been construed as a crisis response of the capitalist class to manage the conflict-ridden consequences of economic globalization; and, as an ideological project of a section of the ruling elites to justify the embedding of market-oriented development processes in a politically repressive government institution. To contribute to recent scholarship attempts at defining the character and tendencies of this emergent regime, the article traces one of its key ideological antecedents from Carl Schmitt’s earlier formulation for a “strong state, free economy”. It then presents a su…