Criticism as a gesture
a reading of “The Latin American university between commodification, rights, and evaluation”
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https://doi.org/10.47456/simbitica.v12i3.49933Keywords:
Latin America, University, Commercialization, Privatization, EvaluationAbstract
This review of the book “La universidad latinoamericana entre la mercantilización, los derechos y la evaluación” (Latin American universities between commodification, rights, and evaluation) examines and highlights the critical aspects and common themes that run through its various chapters. Among those we identify are the gesture of questioning, that of highlighting the tensions present in Latin American higher education today, and the gesture of understanding the processes of commodification, privatization, and evaluation in higher education based on the conceptualizations that the subjects who inhabit universities themselves make of their practices. In short, this is a book that puts criticism into practice, that is, it goes to the known, to the terms we think we know, to reveal the unseen folds or foreshortening and the everyday practices on which they rest
References
FOUCAULT, Michel. (1981). “¿Es importante pensar?”. Entrevista con D. Éribon, Libération, n. 15, París, 30-31 de mayo de 1981. Trad. Silvana Ferrentino.
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