IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/18684_17.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students' unions

In: Handbook on Academic Freedom

Author

Listed:
  • Rille Raaper

Abstract

Raaper focuses on the English higher education setting to explore how marketisation of higher education has led to the fragmentation of student politics, with significant implications on student abilities to exercise their freedoms and political agency. The chapter demonstrates how student freedoms are conditioned and increasingly restricted by various professional actors that govern universities and enforce a consumerist rather than activist identity on student officers in English students' unions. She concludes that the professionalisation of students' political practice reveals significant changes in student voice and freedom to act as collectives. Focusing on one specific example of student representation, that of English students' unions' engagement with the policy consultation process leading to the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (HERA 2017), an Act that encourages a culture of neoliberal performativity and marketisation in higher education, she evaluates how a group of full-time elected student officers constructed and limited their political agency during the policy consultation process.

Suggested Citation

  • Rille Raaper, 2022. "Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students' unions," Chapters, in: Richard Watermeyer & Rille Raaper & Mark Olssen (ed.), Handbook on Academic Freedom, chapter 17, pages 289-305, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:18684_17
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788975919/9781788975919.00027.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:18684_17. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.