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Masculinity, subjectivity and neoliberalism in men’s accounts of migration and higher educational participation
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posted on 2023-06-08, 13:45 authored by Penny Jane BurkeIn this article, I explore men’s educational experiences and aspirations in the context of UK policy discourses of widening participation and migration. Critiquing discourses that oversimplify gendered access to higher education, I develop an analysis of the impact of masculine subjectivities on processes of subjective construction in relation to be(com)ing a university student. Neoliberalism and self-regulation emerge as significant themes by which the men make sense of their educational experiences and aspirations. Widening participation policy discursively constructs the subject as ‘disadvantaged’, ‘with potential’ and responsible for self-improvement through participation in (alternative forms of) higher education (HE). The concept of diaspora illuminates the complex ways the men reconstruct their traumatic experiences in terms of hope and possibility, across different cultural spaces and expectations. A key question is how do the men construct and make sense of their masculine subjectivities in relation to diasporic experiences and aspirations to become HE students?
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Gender and EducationISSN
0954-0253Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
23Page range
169-184Department affiliated with
- Education Publications
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2012-11-16Usage metrics
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