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Books, banks and bullets: controlling our minds – the global project of imperialistic and militaristic neo-liberalism and its effect on education policy

Hill, D. (2004) Books, banks and bullets: controlling our minds – the global project of imperialistic and militaristic neo-liberalism and its effect on education policy. Policy Futures in Education. 2(3 & 4), pp. 504-522. 1478-2103.

Item Type: Article
Abstract: This article focuses on global trends in education policy during the current epoch of imperializing, militaristic, neo-liberal global capital. It is based on an analysis that global capital, in the form of dominant US multinational capital, together with its client governments, uses the repressive and ideological apparatuses of the state to advance its interests, and to marginalize, terrorize, weaken, or kill those who stand in its way. What we are seeing is class war from above – war by national and global capitalist classes against national and global working classes. The author identifies global and national characteristics of the ideological and repressive state apparatuses that impose (broadly neo-liberal) educational and wider social, cultural, economic, and fiscal policy as part of the hegemonic activity of US-led global neo-liberal capital. In particular, he examines the repression of critical thought and oppositional activity within the sites of teacher education, schooling, and university/higher education – the compression and repression of critical space in education today
Additional Information: RAE2008 UoA45
Subjects: L Education > LC Special aspects of Education > LC65 Social aspects of education > LC71 Education and the state
Creators: Hill, Dave
Publisher: Symposium Journals
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities
Date: 1 January 2004
Date Type: Publication
Page Range: pp. 504-522
Journal or Publication Title: Policy Futures in Education
Volume: 2
Number: 3 & 4
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2004.2.3.6
ISSN: 1478-2103
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/121

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