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Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse

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  • Juliet Roper

    (University of Waikato, jroper@waikato.ac.nz)

  • Shiv Ganesh

    (University of Waikato, sganesh@waikato.ac.nz)

  • Kerr Inkson

    (University of Waikato, kinkson@waikato.ac.nz)

Abstract

Decades of critical research have established that economic and political ideologies permeate and shape thought, text and action, and academic knowledge production is no exception. This article examines how ideologies might permeate academic texts, by assessing the reach and influence of neoliberalism in research on boundaryless careers. Specifically, it asks: did the emergence and growth of scholarship on boundaryless careers support, challenge, or merely run parallel to the rising dominance of neoliberal ideology? It was found that a diversity of knowledge interests, including managerial, agentic, curatorial and critical interests underlie the production of research on boundaryless careers. However, all four of these knowledge interests are complicit in discursively constructing and aligning the notion of boundaryless careers with neoliberalism in two specific ways. Implications for scholarship on careers and work are discussed.

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  • Juliet Roper & Shiv Ganesh & Kerr Inkson, 2010. "Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 24(4), pages 661-679, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:24:y:2010:i:4:p:661-679
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017010380630
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