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Afterlives and Alter-lives: How Competitions Produce (Neoliberal?) Subjects in Indonesia.

Indonesia has long employed competitions as means of improving 'human resource quality,' believing competitions to elicit fantasies of achievement that, even if unrealized, motivate participants to self-cultivate in ways generative for the nation. Meanwhile, scholarly critics argue that such policie...

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Published in:Social Analysis Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 112 - 134
Main Author: Long, Nicholas J.
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books Winter2022
Subjects:
Human capital
Individualism
Education
Neoliberalism
Olympiads (Computers)
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