Biopolitical Geographies of Student Life: Private Higher Education and Citizenship Life-Making in Singapore

被引:19
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作者
Cheng, Yi'En [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Sch Geog & Environm, Oxford OX1 3QY, England
关键词
biopolitics; citizenship; class; gender; higher education; Singapore; biopolitica; ciudadania; clase; genero; educacion superior; Singapur; YOUNG-WOMEN; ACTIVISM; SELF; NEOLIBERALISM; UNIVERSITY; MOBILITY; POLITICS; CAMPUS; YOUTH; GIRLS;
D O I
10.1080/00045608.2015.1059179
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Singapore, this article uses the case of young people studying at a private higher education institute to study the biopolitical geographies of student life. I focus on the analytic lens of biopolitical citizenship as one way to understand how biopower works in and through the material relations and practices of social reproduction. I critically examine how young people are engaging with and performing biopolitics in ways that attempt to (re)define what constitutes a mainstream, viable, classed, and gendered citizenship life. I also explore students' (alternative) biopolitical performances through their critical evaluations of state-led discourses, their ability to invent hope as a way of coping and living, and their online enactment of a form of modest activism. Additionally, this article offers an initial engagement with Kraftl's (2015) theorization of alternative biopolitical projects in educational spaces and introduces the concepts of pulling and pushing to frame the paradoxical manner in which young people engage with biopolitics. ????????????????????,?????????????????????,??????????????????????????????,???????????????????????????????????????????????????(?)?????? ??????????????????????????,??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????,?????(??)?????????,?????(2015)???????????????????,???????,??? ? ? ? ???,?????????????????? A partir de un trabajo de campo de once meses en Singapur, este articulo utiliza el caso de los estudiantes de un instituto privado de educacion superior para estudiar las geografias biopoliticas de la vida estudiantil. Me concentro en la lente analitica de la ciudadania biopolitica como una manera de entender el trabajo del biopoder dentro y a traves de las relaciones y practicas materiales de la reproduccion social. Examino criticamente de que manera los jovenes estan comprometidos con la biopolitica y como la representan con medios que intentan (re)definir lo que constituye una vida ciudadana convencional, viable, de categoria y sexualmente orientada. Exploro tambien las representaciones biopoliticas (alternativas) de los estudiantes a traves de sus evaluaciones criticas de los discursos manejados por el estado, su habilidad para inventar esperanza como el modo de desempenarse y vivir, y su representacion en linea de una forma de modesto activismo. Adicionalmente, este articulo presenta un compromiso inicial con la teorizacion de Kraftl (2015) sobre proyectos biopoliticos alternativos en espacios educacionales, e introduce los conceptos de halar y empujar para encuadrar la manera paradojica como la gente joven se involucra en la biopolitica.
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页码:1078 / 1093
页数:16
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