This article examines the widespread policy discourses that have constructed the notion of student as consumer in English higher education, and it questions the implications of such fabrications on students’ political engagement. In particular, it explores the extent to which students have been forced into a position of an ‘animal laboran’ whose primary function is to focus on immediate necessities in highly pressurised university environments. By drawing on Arendt, the article will first consider the shift towards representative practices in student politics, characterised by professionalisation of students’ unions. Second, the article will draw on Foucault to investigate the ways in which more personalised forms of students’ political participation related to private interest and single-issue campaigns can emerge in neoliberalised universities and society more broadly.

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学生是“动物劳动者”？在市场化的高等教育环境中追踪学生政治

本文考察了广泛的政策话语，这些话语在英语高等教育中构建了学生作为消费者的概念，并质疑这种捏造对学生政治参与的影响。特别是，它探讨了学生在多大程度上被迫成为“动物劳动者”，其主要职能是在压力很大的大学环境中关注眼前的必需品。通过借鉴阿伦特，本文将首先考虑学生政治中向代表性实践的转变，其特点是学生会的专业化。第二，