<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We argue that neo-liberal educational policy has emerged as a proto-fascist governmentality. This contemporary technology relies on State racisms and racial orderings manifested from earlier liberal and neo-liberal practices of biopower. As a proto-fascist technology, education policy, and school choice policies in particular, operate within a racial aesthetics that connects ultra-nationalisms with microfascisms of racialized bodies. We discuss historical examples of liberal school segregation and residential schools in relation to contemporary examples of chartered ethnic-identity schools to illustrate the complexities of proto-fascist education policy.</p></abstract>

We argue that neo-liberal educational policy has emerged as a proto-fascist governmentality. This contemporary technology relies on State racisms and racial orderings manifested from earlier liberal and neo-liberal practices of biopower. As a proto-fascist technology, education policy, and school choice policies in particular, operate within a racial aesthetics that connects ultra-nationalisms with microfascisms of racialized bodies. We discuss historical examples of liberal school segregation and residential schools in relation to contemporary examples of chartered ethnic-identity schools to illustrate the complexities of proto-fascist education policy.

Education Policy as Proto-fascism: The Aesthetics of Racial Neo-liberalism

Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, 2044 Lower Mall Vancouver, BC Canada, V6T1Z4

Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Australia, 2052

Journal of Pedagogy

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We argue that neo-liberal educational policy has emerged as a proto-fascist governmentality. This contemporary technology relies on State racisms and racial...

Education Policy as Proto-fascism: The Aesthetics of Racial Neo-liberalism

Published Online: Feb 17, 2012

Page range: 173 - 194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10159-011-0009-x

Keywords
fascism, neoliberalism, governmentality, liberal educational policy

This content is open access.

Education Policy as Proto-fascism: The Aesthetics of Racial Neo-liberalism

Published Online: Feb 17, 2012

Page range: 173 - 194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10159-011-0009-x

Keywordsfascism, neoliberalism, governmentality, liberal educational policy

This content is open access.

Keywords
fascism, neoliberalism, governmentality, liberal educational policy