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‘Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university
Management Learning ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 , DOI: 10.1177/1350507620924162
Leo McCann 1 , Edward Granter , Paula Hyde 2 , Jeremy Aroles 3
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University governance is becoming increasingly autocratic as marketization intensifies. Far from the classical ideal of a professional collegium run according to academic norms, today’s universities feature corporate cultures and senior leadership teams disconnected from both staff and students, and intolerant of dissenting views. This is not a completely new phenomenon. In 1960s America, senior leaders developed a technocratic and managerialist model of the university, in keeping with theories around the ‘convergence’ of socio-economic systems towards a pluralist ‘industrial society’. This administrative-managerial vision was opposed by radical students, triggering punitive responses that reflected how universities’ control measures were at the time mostly aimed at students. Today, their primary target is academics. Informed by Critical Theory and based on an autoethnographic account of a university restructuring programme, we argue that the direction of convergence in universities has not been towards liberal, pluralist, democracy but towards neo-Stalinist organizing principles. Performance measurements – ‘targets and terror’ – are powerful mechanisms for the expansion of managerial power or, in Marcuse’s words, ‘total administration’. Total administration in the contemporary university damages teaching, learning, workplace democracy and freedom of speech on campus, suggesting that the critique of university autocracy by 1960s students and scholars remains highly relevant.

中文翻译:

“在齿轮和车轮上”:新自由主义大学的恐怖融合和全面管理

随着市场化的加剧,大学治理变得越来越专制。与按照学术规范运行的专业学院的经典理想相去甚远,如今的大学具有企业文化和高级领导团队,与教职员工和学生都脱节,并且不能容忍不同意见。这并不是一个全新的现象。在 1960 年代的美国,高级领导人开发了一种技术官僚主义和管理主义的大学模型,与围绕社会经济系统向多元化“工业社会”“融合”的理论保持一致。这种行政管理愿景遭到激进学生的反对,引发了惩罚性反应,反映出当时大学的控制措施主要针对学生。今天,他们的主要目标是学者。在批判理论的指导下,并基于对大学重组计划的自我民族志描述,我们认为大学的融合方向不是朝着自由、多元、民主,而是朝着新斯大林主义的组织原则。绩效衡量——“目标和恐怖”——是扩大管理权力或用马尔库塞的话说,“全面管理”的强大机制。当代大学的全面管理损害了校园的教学、学习、工作场所民主和言论自由,这表明 1960 年代学生和学者对大学专制的批判仍然具有高度相关性。民主,而是朝着新斯大林主义的组织原则。绩效衡量——“目标和恐怖”——是扩大管理权力或用马尔库塞的话说,“全面管理”的强大机制。当代大学的全面管理损害了校园的教学、学习、工作场所民主和言论自由,这表明 1960 年代学生和学者对大学专制的批判仍然具有高度相关性。民主,而是朝着新斯大林主义的组织原则。绩效衡量——“目标和恐怖”——是扩大管理权力或用马尔库塞的话说,“全面管理”的强大机制。当代大学的全面管理损害了校园的教学、学习、工作场所民主和言论自由,这表明 1960 年代学生和学者对大学专制的批判仍然具有高度相关性。
更新日期:2020-06-30
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