Technologies of Governance in Context: Four Global Windows Into Neoliberalism and Audit Culture in Higher Education

Abstract

This partial special issue of Qualitative Inquiry, titled “Technologies of Governance in Context: Four Global Windows Into Neoliberalism and Audit Culture in Higher Education,” examines various aspects of the academic impact of neoliberal technologies from four context-specific locations that include Australia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in addition to my own Canadian perspective in this introduction. It is based on a similarly themed plenary panel that was held in 2018 as part of the 14th Annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign titled “The Politics, Places, Forms, and Effects of Accountability, Quality Assurance, and/or Excellence Frameworks in these Global Troubled Times.”

Keywords

audit culture higher education neoliberalism politics and culture New Public Management

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