Study abroad as governmentality: The construction of hypermobile subjectivities in higher education

Aline Courtois

doi:10.1080/02680939.2018.1543809

Study abroad as governmentality: The construction of hypermobile subjectivities in higher education

Aline Courtois

Department of Education

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Abstract

Drawing on the concept of hypermobility, the paper examines a case of study-abroad mobility from a governmentality perspective. Based on a critical analysis of policy texts and interviews with Irish students who have taken part in the Erasmus exchange programme, it argues that under the conditions of neoliberal globalisation, the normalisation of study abroad aims to produce self-governing practices that align with dominant discourses promoting voluntarist attitudes to labour mobility. These dispositions, described as hypermobility, are an additional dimension of the flexible, entrepreneurial subject imagined in neoliberal societies. The paper examines the discourses and practices at state and institutional levels and how they circulate and impact on students’ subjectivities – analysing affective detachment from home and cosmopolitan sociability as self-disciplining practices that align with the production of neoliberal hypermobile subjectivities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-257
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal of Education Policy
Volume	35
Issue number	2
Early online date	13 Nov 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2018.1543809
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2020

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National University of Ireland [NUI Dr. Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowship]. I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers; as well as Theresa O?Keefe, University College Cork; Tony Cunningham, Maynooth University; Aniko Horvath, UCL Institute of Education; Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin; and Hugh Lauder, University of Bath for their helpful suggestions and comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.

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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Aline Courtois
- A.D.M.Courtoisbath.acuk
- Department of Education - Senior Lecturer
- Centre for Qualitative Research
Person: Research & Teaching

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Study abroad as governmentality: The construction of hypermobile subjectivities in higher education

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