Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State: Mass Higher education,
Public Professionalism, and State Effects in Chile
A
new book by Nicolas Fleet
Palgrave
Macmillan, 2021
Palgrave
Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
ISBN
978-3-030-77192-8
ISBN
978-3-030-77193-5 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77193-5
From the Publisher:
This book engages
with post-Marxist views on the productive and social transformations of
post-industrial societies into cognitive capitalism. It provides extensive
original analysis on the political roles that intellectual labour assumes in
the post-bureaucratic organisation of the neoliberal state. It invigorates
debates on state theory, cognitive capitalism, and student movements in Chile
and Latin America.
In his book, Nicolas
Fleet addresses the political effects of the massification of higher education
and intellectual labor in the neoliberal state. Using the case of Chile, the
author argues that public professionalism emerges in the mass university
system, producing excesses of knowledge which infuse the state with
political purpose at many levels. The emergence of the student movement in
2011, then the major social mobilization against the neoliberal state since the
restoration of democracy in 1990, provided a clear manifestation of the
politicization and ideological divisions of the mass university system. In
conditions of mass intellectuality, public professionals mobilize their
political affinities and links with society, eventually affecting the direction
of state power, even against neoliberal policy. Through several interviews with
academics, public professionals, and other documentary and statistical
analyses, the book illustrates the different sites of political socialization
and the ideological effectiveness of the emergent mass intellectuality of the
neoliberal state.
Reviews:
“Fleet’s main contribution is to identify the key
role played by a totally unexpected actor: a large mass of highly educated
public servants, who are the product of the explosive expansion of
education and for decades have also contested the neoliberal state from
within.”
—Patricio Silva,
Professor of Modern Latin American History, Leiden University, The Netherlands
“This highly original and readable study is going
to re-invigorate debates on state theory and enliven current discourses on
cognitive capitalism and the knowledge economy. The author's insightful
investigation of the Chilean university student and secondary school student
movements is eye-opening and vitally relevant to the current struggles in Chile
and all of Latin America today.”
—Stefano Harney,
Honorary Professor, Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice,
University of British Columbia, Canada
“Nicolas Fleet shows how a mass intelligentsia grew out of
a segregated education system in the world’s only truly neoliberal state. His
masterly account of the bureaucracy, of education and of the clientelistic
party system, offers a highly original explanation of the explosions of youth
protest that opened the way to an unprecedented national consensus for the
refoundation of the state in a Constitutional Assembly."
—David
Lehmann, Emeritus Reader in Social Science and former Director of
the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
The Author:
Nicolas Fleet is Dean of Social,
Legal and Economic Sciences at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile.
He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, UK. His
research focuses on political sociology and higher education.
For
more information and Table of Contents, see: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-77193-5
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