How local governments answer to their masters and not their communities

Friday, 10 July 2020 - 10:00am to 10:30am

Jacques and Jennifer discuss how local governments answer to higher levels of government rather than communities, and operate like factories

delivering products in the market place. They first talk about universities and proposed defunding of the humanities. The program finishes with a look

at the long-term winding back of preventative public health that works with local communities, (which has had dire consequences for the spread of

the coronavirus). Overall, the managerialist, neoliberal approach siphons power from communities and from ordinary people.

 

Garland, C. (2020) "Changing Behaviour:" The Hierarchical and Bureaucratic Imperative of Instrumental Reason in the Corporatized University

https://www.academia.edu/43288760/Garland_C._2020_Changing_Behaviour_The_Hierarchical_and_Bureaucratic_Imperative_of_Instrumental_Reason_in_the_Corporatized_University

 
 

 

Friday 10:00am to 10:30am
Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.

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Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet

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