Everyday university politics in the Philippines: A tale of two universities

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Political Science

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Philippine Political Science Journal

Volume

34

Issue

2

First Page

170

Last Page

187

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Abstract

The experience of the two universities presented in this article provides evidence to the proliferation of contestations for power in modern universities, including those in the Philippines. This can be analyzed in the context of ordinary resistance and everyday politics where architectures of power deployed by university administrators tend to both constrain and enable political action. This occurs even as human agents offer their transgressions by deploying forms of localized resistance that may appear petty and mundane but has the power to reinforce the self-identification of its bearers. Indeed, this is enabled by the fact that the university is now normalized into simply another place of work, and where knowledge is no longer produced for knowledge's sake only, but as a collateral benefit in a political economy of symbols, narratives, images, and commodities. Thus, this article shows that in late capitalism the university has become just another place for performativity and simulacra. © 2013 Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA).

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1080/01154451.2013.851490

Disciplines

Political Science

Keywords

Education—Political aspects--Philippines

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