Educational Performativity and Biographical Space in Higher Education: the Neoliberal Discursive Regime

Abstract

The article gathers some aspects of the doctoral research “Performativity and teaching bodies in higher education: an approach from the biographical space”, carried out in the Doctorate in Social Studies program of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. The study of governmentality resources of contemporary university under the neoliberal performative regime was addressed. In this regard, the research reviews the concept of educational performativity and applies it to the study of different management and commercialization resources of the university and its projection in the subjectivities of professors, researchers and other university actors.