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Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Educational Policy FRSA, FAcSS. Res.: political theory, ethics, Foucault, neoliberalism. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/politics-international-relations https://www.surrey.ac.uk/

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Manchester University Press - Constructing Foucault's ethics Constructing Foucault's ethics - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Constructing Foucault's ethics by Mark Olssen

Published 30th Jan - paperback edition of Constructing Foucault's Ethics by @MarkOlssen

'A major contribution to Foucauldian scholarship.' (Stephen J. Ball, UCL)

'A truly impressive and timely book.'
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The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization Globalization has become one of the most recurrent concepts in social and political sciences. More often than not, however, the concept is handled without much of a properly articulated theory capable...

Book chapter: 'Rehabilitating the Concept of the Public Good', The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization, Chap. 38, pp 820 - 861
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A Normative Foucauldian "A Normative Foucauldian" published on 23 Sep 2021 by Brill.

New book, 2021: Selected Papers of Mark Olssen. Foreword Stephen J. Ball. Brill: Boston, MA. Sept. 2021
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Manchester University Press - Constructing Foucault's ethics Constructing Foucault's ethics - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Constructing Foucault's ethics by Mark Olssen

Published 30th Jan - paperback edition of Constructing Foucault's Ethics by @MarkOlssen

'A major contribution to Foucauldian scholarship.' (Stephen J. Ball, UCL)

'A truly impressive and timely book.'
(Hugh Lauder, University of Bath)

Order for Β£20/$29.95
tinyurl.com/2mtzu544

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The dissipating value of public service in UK Higher Education | 22 | This chapter traces the attempted conversion of the university from what can be called a public good model to one serving private interests. The value,

Book chapter 2019: Richard Watermeyer, Mark Olssen, The dissipating value of public service in UK Higher Education, in Public Value, eds. Adam Lindgreen et al.
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Citizenship Teaching & Learning Citizenship Teaching & Learning; This peer-reviewed journal focuses on citizenship teaching and learning in all contexts, for all ages, within and beyond schools. It brings together the work of resear...

New journal article: May 2023:
Bosio, Emiliano, & Olssen, Mark.
Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker & education – A conversation with Mark Olssen.
Citizenship Teaching &Β Learning 18 (2), pp. 245 - 261
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Editorial Team | Foucault Studies ISSN: 1832-5203

Delighted to accept invitation to join the editorial board of Foucault Studies
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New journal article: Dec 2022: Foucault's New Materialism: An Extended Review Essay of Thomas Lemke's The Government of Things
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New book chapter, Nov. 2022: Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy: the incursions of neoliberalism, in Watermeyer, Raaper and Olssen (Eds.), Handbook of Academic Freedom. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 125 - 145.

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Handbook on Academic Freedom β€˜The Handbook on Academic Freedom paints an extremely disturbing picture of how, globally, academics’ ability to act as critical public intellectuals has been radically undermined by universities’ shi...

November 2022. New book of great social and political import
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Review of Foucault’s New Materialism: A Review of Thomas Lemke’s The Government of Things IFIRST WROTE ON Foucault as a complexity materialist in the 1990s and have continued to write on the subject (see Olssen 1996, 1999, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2021

Foucault's New Materialism: A Review of Thomas Lemke's The Government of Things,
Social Forces, 101 (1), Sept. 2022
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Mark Olssen | Global Citizenship Education Interview Series with Emiliano Bosio
Mark Olssen | Global Citizenship Education Interview Series with Emiliano Bosio YouTube video by Dr. Emiliano Bosio

Global Citizenship Interview Series: Emiliano Bosio interviews Mark Olssen, February 2022
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The effects of neoliberalism: Teachers’ experiences and ethical dilemmas to policy initiatives within vocational education and training in Australia - Sonal Nakar, Mark Olssen, 2022 Neoliberal policy reforms have had a marked influence on nearly every aspect of education, including the enrolment practices employed by institutions, teaching ...

New article 14th Nov. 2021, Sonal NakarοΏΌ,Β Mark Olssen, The effects of neoliberalism: Teachers’ experiences and ethical dilemmas to policy initiatives within vocational education and training in Australia.
Policy Futures in Education
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A Normative Foucauldian "A Normative Foucauldian" published on 23 Sep 2021 by Brill.

New book: Selected Papers of Mark Olssen. Foreword Stephen J. Ball. Brill: Boston, MA. Sept. 2021
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Neoliberalism and Laissez-Faire This chapter starts by restating the core theoretical differences between liberalism and neoliberalism, most essentially concerning the principle of the active

New book chapter, 2021 taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...en

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New article, 2021: 'Rehabilitating the Concept of the Public Good', Review of Contemporary Philosophy, 20, pp. 7 - 52 doi:10.22381/RCP2020211.
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Journal article 2021: Mark Olssen, William Mace, 'British Idealism, Complexity, Society', Linguistic & Philosophical Investigations
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New article, Dec.,19: Foucault & Neoliberalism: a response to critics and a new resolution'
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(PDF) THE LANGUAGE OF NEOLIBERAL EDUCATION (journal special issue of Ε olsko polje) PDF | For over two decades now, neoliberalism has been at the forefront of discussions not only in the economy and finance but has infiltrated our... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

New journal article: 'Neoliberalism and laissez-faire: the retreat from naturalism', Solsko polje, XXIX, 1- 2, 2018.
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The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism

New book chapter, April 2018: Neoliberalism & Democracy: Foucauldian perspective...
Sage Handbook of Neoliberalism
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A Companion to Research in Teacher Education

New book chapter, Aug 2017: 'Complexity & Learning: Immplications for Teacher Education'
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In conversation with Mark Olssen: on Foucault with Marx and Hegel It is challenging to define who Michel Foucault was, whether he was a theorist, a philosopher, a historian, or a critic. In many of his books, and essays, Foucault denied being a philosopher or a t...

New journal article, July 2017: Rille Rapper interviews Mark Olssen on Foucault with Marx and Hegel.

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Policy and Inequality in Education This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educationa...

New book chapter, May 2017: 'Neoliberalism and beyond: the possibilities of a social justice agenda'.

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Wittgenstein and Foucault: The Limits and Possibilities of Constructivism MarshallMarshall, James (1995) once argued that Wittgenstein’sWittgenstein social constructivist view of mathematicsMathematics is not ‘idealistic’, &#8216...

New book chapter, May 2017: 'Wittgenstein and Foucault: the limits and possibilities of constructivism'. In Michael A. Peters, Jeff Stickney, eds.
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World Politics at the Edge of Chaos Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics ...

New article, 2016: 'Ascertaining the Normative Implications of Complexity for Politics: Beyond Agent-Based Modeling', in Emilian Kavalski (ed), series eds. James N. Rosenau, David Earnest.
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β€˜Excellence’ and Exclusion: The Individual Costs of Institutional Competitiveness A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom’s β€˜Research Excellence Framework’ (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public...

New article: Richard Watermeyer and Mark Olssen (May 2016) on 'excellence and exclusion in higher education'
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