We argue that neo-liberal educational policy has emerged as a proto-fascist governmentality. This contemporary technology relies on State racisms and racial orderings manifested from earlier liberal and neo-liberal practices of biopower. As a proto-fascist technology, education policy, and school choice policies in particular, operate within a racial aesthetics that connects ultra-nationalisms with microfascisms of racialized bodies. We discuss historical examples of liberal school segregation and residential schools in relation to contemporary examples of chartered ethnic-identity schools to illustrate the complexities of proto-fascist education policy.
Authors argue that neoliberal educational policy has emerged as proto-fascist governmentality. This contemporary technology relies on State racisms and racial orderings manifested from earlier liberal and neoliberal practices of bio-power. As a proto-fascist technology, education policy, and school choice policies in particular, operate within a racial aesthetics that connects ultra-nationalism with micro-fascisms of racialized bodies. They discuss historical examples of liberal school segregation and residential schools in relation to the contemporary examples of chartered ethnic-identity schools to illustrate the complexities of proto-fascist education policy
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