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Managerialism as Ideology

In: Managerialism

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  • Thomas Klikauer

    (University of Western Sydney)

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A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in the managerial society as a token of material-commercial progress. Indeed, what could be more rational than the suppression of individuality under the ‘managerialisation of everything’? Managerialisation — making something managerial — turns every eventuality of human existence into a manageable issue. Simultaneously, it standardises everything while promising individualism and individuality. You no longer have a sex-life but you ‘Manage Your Sex Life’; we do not have real marriages but we manage our marriages, we do no longer have an education but managers who manage education.104 The resulting managerial society is governed by a painful demand for performance inflicted on everyone. Managerialism engineers the free competition among unequally equipped managerial subjects. Under its ideological banner of globalisation it has curtailed the prerogatives and national sovereignties unleashing global corporations and their ideological resources. That this managerial order involves economic, social, political, cultural, ideological, and intellectual domination may be a regrettable yet also promising development.

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  • Thomas Klikauer, 2013. "Managerialism as Ideology," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Managerialism, chapter 2, pages 24-44, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33427-5_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137334275_2
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    1. Stephen Dele Bolaji & Sullay Jalloh & Bisi Imonitie & Abdulai Walon-Jalloh, 2018. "Reversing the Trend of Educational Disparity in West Africa," International Journal of Learning and Development, Macrothink Institute, vol. 8(2), pages 130-142, June.
    2. Marcelo de Souza Bispo, 2022. "Reflecting on Contemporary Administration," RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Administration), ANPAD - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração, vol. 26(1), pages 210203-2102.
    3. Rustem Nureev & Vyacheslav Volchik & Wadim Strielkowski, 2020. "Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education and the Import of Institutions," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-18, May.
    4. Abbott, Keith & Mackinnon, Bruce Hearn, 2019. "A Žižekian ideological critique of managerialism," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 133-138.

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