The Subject of the Discourse: Reading Online Activist Discourse for Human Capital Theory.
This paper contends that much of the discourse produced, received and exchanged online by 'progressive subjects' – activists committed to contesting oppression and examining privilege – is structured by neoliberal ideology. Human capital theory functions as the 'interpellative arm' of the neoliberal...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Language, Literature & Culture Vol. 67; no. 2/3; pp. 124 - 143 |
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