TY - JOUR AU - Francesca Peruzzo AU - Aaron M. Kuntz PY - 2024 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag JF - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION IS - 1 VL - 6 SN - 2578-5761 TI - Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Higher Education: New Approaches, Theories, and Conditions of Possibility DO - 10.3726/PTIHE.012024.0001 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1476975 N2 - It is no news that the neoliberal tide, as Ong (2007) once described it, has shifted the ways in which universities operate. Neoliberalism, as a contemporary configuration of capitalism, has continued to both shape the ways in which knowledge is produced in universities and mold the subjectivities of the producers of such knowledge since the late 1970s. By experiencing a withdrawal of state funding in favor of the market as a site of veridiction (Foucault, 2010) for their allocation, the neoliberal rationality relentlessly mobilizes (Western) higher education through a specifically economic rationale. By means of national and international comparisons, neoliberalism sets institutions and their members against one another, racing for the best REF-able outputs and for a restless search for funding, increasingly procured through partnerships with the private sector. KW - Foucault’s theory, higher education, governmentality, power, subjectivities ER -