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Papers by Cris Shore
Routledge eBooks, Nov 5, 2013
Introduction Part One: Inventing Europe 1. Forging a European Nation-State? The European Union an... more Introduction Part One: Inventing Europe 1. Forging a European Nation-State? The European Union and Questions of Culture 2. Creating the People's Europe: Symbols, History and Invented Traditions 3. Citizenship of the Union. The Cultural Construction of a European Citizen 4. Symbolizing Boundaries: The Single Currency and the Art of European Governance Part Two: EU Civil Servants. The New Europeans? 5. A Supranational Civil Service? The Role of the Commission in the Integration Process 6. The Brussels Context. Integration and Engrenage among EU Elites 7. Transnational, Supranational or Post-National? The Organisational Culture of the Commission Conclusions
Social Analysis, Dec 1, 2003
Routledge eBooks, Jan 7, 2021
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
The current era has been characterised as an ‘age of austerity’ as neoliberal monetary and fiscal... more The current era has been characterised as an ‘age of austerity’ as neoliberal monetary and fiscal policies have sought to remake Europe’s economies in their own image. Yet austerity impacts on far more than just the economic and financial sectors: as we argue, austerity entails a far wider project of social and political reform. It also embodies a new kind of government rationality, one that is having a tranformative effect on European culture and society. Nowhere is this more evident than in Greece, an EU member-state which, in many ways, has become a laboratory for the future of European integration. This chapter reflects on the impact of austerity on Greece and its implications for the EU. More specifically, we examine the narrative construction of the Greek crisis and way that EU politicians and policy makers have framed and represented the ‘Greek problem’ and its solution. We argue that austerity is not only undermining the fabric of Greek democracy society – turning the state of ‘crisis’ into the ‘new normal’ - it is also fundamentally redefining the very telos of European integration: from an ideal of a European union based on solidarity, cohesion and the ending of war, austerity is accelerating social fragmentation, producing an increasingly disunited, unequal and conflict-ridden Europe
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Unknown eBooks, 1996
From self-applause through self-criticism to self-confidence. Introduction: is anthropology relev... more From self-applause through self-criticism to self-confidence. Introduction: is anthropology relevant to the contemporary world? the rise and fall of scientific ethnography anthropology: still the uncomfortable discipline? anthropology for sale? learning from AIDS: the future of anthropology anthropology, gender, masculinity tourism, modernity, nostalgia prospects for tourism study in anthropology lost horizons regained: old age and the anthropology of contemporary society cultural imperialism and the mediation of otherness after emotion: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and beyond notes on the future anthropology.
Routledge eBooks, May 31, 2020
The health of social anthropology as a discipline and practice has long been connected to its pos... more The health of social anthropology as a discipline and practice has long been connected to its position as a university-based subject. However, changes in the political economy of higher education, including cuts in public spending, rising student fees, the privileging of STEM subjects over the arts and humanities, and the proliferation of new regimes of audit and accountability, pose challenges for anthropology as well as the future of the university itself. In countries such as Britain, Australia and New Zealand, academics are being urged to be more entrepreneurial, to focus on ‘impact’, and to engage more proactively with business and commerce in order to create a more commercially oriented ‘innovation ecosystem’. The idea of forging a ‘triple helix’ of university-industry-government relations has become the new common sense that underpins the funding of higher education. But how positive is this supposed symbiosis between public universities and external financial interests? What are the costs of this collaboration? And what are the implications for anthropology? This chapter sets out to address these questions by drawing on a collaborative, multidisciplinary research project on university reform and globalization (URGE) carried out between 2010-2013
This paper explores the function and effects of recent government reform of higher education in t... more This paper explores the function and effects of recent government reform of higher education in the United Kingdom particularly on quality assurance and quality assessment. The reforms have aimed to make institutions more akin to business and have used the language and techniques of "management." It is argued, in agreement with Michel Foucault, that Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison provides an instructive model. In a panopticon, a tower is situated at the center of a courtyard surrounded by buildings of cells with each cell window under direct scrutiny of the tower and each inmate visible to the surveillant alone. The cells are theaters in which each actor is alone, individualized and constantly visible. It is further argued that such a pri~on is a model for understanding the new management practices in higher education and how these function to control, classify and contain teachers. Thus, quality control exercises actually lead to a lowering of academic standards. The paper also argues that current education policy can be usefully analyzed in terms of discourses of power and their relation to systems of control and bureaucratic surveillance and that current policy has been constructed in accordance with a political agenda for social control and ideological reordering with devastating consequences for intellectual freedom and student learning. (Contains 15 references.) (JB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, May 1, 2017
Benedict Anderson (1983) famously observed that nations are distinguished ‘not by their falsity/g... more Benedict Anderson (1983) famously observed that nations are distinguished ‘not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined’. Similar arguments could also be made for the idea of ‘smallness’ and its relationship to state formation and national identity. As Anderson, Brown and Purcell argue (2005), ‘scale is socially produced rather than ontologically give’. Taking up these arguments I explore how the idea of New Zealand as a small country – and the discourse of ‘smallness’ – has been utilized by the state as part of a wider project of national branding. This is particularly evident in trade policy and international diplomacy where the narrative of Aotearoa/New Zealand as a small, independent, nimble country that ‘punches above its weight’ in the international arena has been used to mobilise new forms of economic nationalism under the banner of ‘NZ Inc’. I also examine some of the contradictory ways that scale features in national imaginaries and representations of New Zealand, from dull sheep-farming station at the end of the world to exciting new tourist destination, adventure playground and ‘home to Middle Earth’. Understood as geographically isolated and sparsely populated with a population of only 4.5 million in a country occupying a land mass greater than that the United Kingdom and Italy, New Zealand offers an exemplary site for investigating some of the theoretical issues and tensions around scalar relations, cultural understandings of smallness, and the spatialization of politics
Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, Aug 29, 2018
Abstract What counts as evidence of good performance, behaviour or character? While quantitative ... more Abstract What counts as evidence of good performance, behaviour or character? While quantitative metrics have long been used to measure performance and productivity in schools, factories and workplaces, what is striking today is the extent to which these calculative methods and rationalities are being extended into new areas of life through the global spread of performance indicators (PIs) and performance management systems. What began as part of the neoliberalising projects of the 1980s with a few strategically chosen PIs to give greater state control over the public sector through contract management and mobilising ‘users’ has now proliferated to include almost every aspect of professional work. The use of metrics has also expanded from managing professionals to controlling entire populations. This chapter focuses on the rise of these new forms of audit and their effects in two areas: first, the alliance being formed between state-collected data and that collected by commercial companies on their customers through, for example loyalty cards and credit checks. Second, China’s new social credit system, which allocates individual scores to each citizen and uses rewards of better or privileged service to entice people to volunteer information about themselves, publish their ‘ratings’ and compete with friends for status points. This is a new development in the use of audit simultaneously to discipline whole populations and responsibilise individuals to perform according to new state and commercial norms about the reliable/conforming ‘good’ citizen.
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
Death of the Public University?, 2017
Anthropology News, 2017
As we noted in an earlier column, ASAP was active at the Minneapolis meeting with fteen sessions ... more As we noted in an earlier column, ASAP was active at the Minneapolis meeting with fteen sessions on the regular program and another round of our now traditional mentoring session. The two of us wanted to provide some re ections on those sessions so that the insights do not disappear into the ether as we think ahead to the next meetings in Washington. Our lead invited sessions represented the range of ASAP interests with one on a particular topical area, education, and the other on one aspect of the overall policy process, implementation. The education session (organized by Bill Beeman) focused on problems of education achievement disparities in the United States and their entanglement with the issues of race, class, ethnicity, and the politics of exclusion.
Routledge eBooks, Nov 5, 2013
Introduction Part One: Inventing Europe 1. Forging a European Nation-State? The European Union an... more Introduction Part One: Inventing Europe 1. Forging a European Nation-State? The European Union and Questions of Culture 2. Creating the People's Europe: Symbols, History and Invented Traditions 3. Citizenship of the Union. The Cultural Construction of a European Citizen 4. Symbolizing Boundaries: The Single Currency and the Art of European Governance Part Two: EU Civil Servants. The New Europeans? 5. A Supranational Civil Service? The Role of the Commission in the Integration Process 6. The Brussels Context. Integration and Engrenage among EU Elites 7. Transnational, Supranational or Post-National? The Organisational Culture of the Commission Conclusions
Social Analysis, Dec 1, 2003
Routledge eBooks, Jan 7, 2021
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
The current era has been characterised as an ‘age of austerity’ as neoliberal monetary and fiscal... more The current era has been characterised as an ‘age of austerity’ as neoliberal monetary and fiscal policies have sought to remake Europe’s economies in their own image. Yet austerity impacts on far more than just the economic and financial sectors: as we argue, austerity entails a far wider project of social and political reform. It also embodies a new kind of government rationality, one that is having a tranformative effect on European culture and society. Nowhere is this more evident than in Greece, an EU member-state which, in many ways, has become a laboratory for the future of European integration. This chapter reflects on the impact of austerity on Greece and its implications for the EU. More specifically, we examine the narrative construction of the Greek crisis and way that EU politicians and policy makers have framed and represented the ‘Greek problem’ and its solution. We argue that austerity is not only undermining the fabric of Greek democracy society – turning the state of ‘crisis’ into the ‘new normal’ - it is also fundamentally redefining the very telos of European integration: from an ideal of a European union based on solidarity, cohesion and the ending of war, austerity is accelerating social fragmentation, producing an increasingly disunited, unequal and conflict-ridden Europe
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Unknown eBooks, 1996
From self-applause through self-criticism to self-confidence. Introduction: is anthropology relev... more From self-applause through self-criticism to self-confidence. Introduction: is anthropology relevant to the contemporary world? the rise and fall of scientific ethnography anthropology: still the uncomfortable discipline? anthropology for sale? learning from AIDS: the future of anthropology anthropology, gender, masculinity tourism, modernity, nostalgia prospects for tourism study in anthropology lost horizons regained: old age and the anthropology of contemporary society cultural imperialism and the mediation of otherness after emotion: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and beyond notes on the future anthropology.
Routledge eBooks, May 31, 2020
The health of social anthropology as a discipline and practice has long been connected to its pos... more The health of social anthropology as a discipline and practice has long been connected to its position as a university-based subject. However, changes in the political economy of higher education, including cuts in public spending, rising student fees, the privileging of STEM subjects over the arts and humanities, and the proliferation of new regimes of audit and accountability, pose challenges for anthropology as well as the future of the university itself. In countries such as Britain, Australia and New Zealand, academics are being urged to be more entrepreneurial, to focus on ‘impact’, and to engage more proactively with business and commerce in order to create a more commercially oriented ‘innovation ecosystem’. The idea of forging a ‘triple helix’ of university-industry-government relations has become the new common sense that underpins the funding of higher education. But how positive is this supposed symbiosis between public universities and external financial interests? What are the costs of this collaboration? And what are the implications for anthropology? This chapter sets out to address these questions by drawing on a collaborative, multidisciplinary research project on university reform and globalization (URGE) carried out between 2010-2013
This paper explores the function and effects of recent government reform of higher education in t... more This paper explores the function and effects of recent government reform of higher education in the United Kingdom particularly on quality assurance and quality assessment. The reforms have aimed to make institutions more akin to business and have used the language and techniques of "management." It is argued, in agreement with Michel Foucault, that Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison provides an instructive model. In a panopticon, a tower is situated at the center of a courtyard surrounded by buildings of cells with each cell window under direct scrutiny of the tower and each inmate visible to the surveillant alone. The cells are theaters in which each actor is alone, individualized and constantly visible. It is further argued that such a pri~on is a model for understanding the new management practices in higher education and how these function to control, classify and contain teachers. Thus, quality control exercises actually lead to a lowering of academic standards. The paper also argues that current education policy can be usefully analyzed in terms of discourses of power and their relation to systems of control and bureaucratic surveillance and that current policy has been constructed in accordance with a political agenda for social control and ideological reordering with devastating consequences for intellectual freedom and student learning. (Contains 15 references.) (JB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, May 1, 2017
Benedict Anderson (1983) famously observed that nations are distinguished ‘not by their falsity/g... more Benedict Anderson (1983) famously observed that nations are distinguished ‘not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined’. Similar arguments could also be made for the idea of ‘smallness’ and its relationship to state formation and national identity. As Anderson, Brown and Purcell argue (2005), ‘scale is socially produced rather than ontologically give’. Taking up these arguments I explore how the idea of New Zealand as a small country – and the discourse of ‘smallness’ – has been utilized by the state as part of a wider project of national branding. This is particularly evident in trade policy and international diplomacy where the narrative of Aotearoa/New Zealand as a small, independent, nimble country that ‘punches above its weight’ in the international arena has been used to mobilise new forms of economic nationalism under the banner of ‘NZ Inc’. I also examine some of the contradictory ways that scale features in national imaginaries and representations of New Zealand, from dull sheep-farming station at the end of the world to exciting new tourist destination, adventure playground and ‘home to Middle Earth’. Understood as geographically isolated and sparsely populated with a population of only 4.5 million in a country occupying a land mass greater than that the United Kingdom and Italy, New Zealand offers an exemplary site for investigating some of the theoretical issues and tensions around scalar relations, cultural understandings of smallness, and the spatialization of politics
Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, Aug 29, 2018
Abstract What counts as evidence of good performance, behaviour or character? While quantitative ... more Abstract What counts as evidence of good performance, behaviour or character? While quantitative metrics have long been used to measure performance and productivity in schools, factories and workplaces, what is striking today is the extent to which these calculative methods and rationalities are being extended into new areas of life through the global spread of performance indicators (PIs) and performance management systems. What began as part of the neoliberalising projects of the 1980s with a few strategically chosen PIs to give greater state control over the public sector through contract management and mobilising ‘users’ has now proliferated to include almost every aspect of professional work. The use of metrics has also expanded from managing professionals to controlling entire populations. This chapter focuses on the rise of these new forms of audit and their effects in two areas: first, the alliance being formed between state-collected data and that collected by commercial companies on their customers through, for example loyalty cards and credit checks. Second, China’s new social credit system, which allocates individual scores to each citizen and uses rewards of better or privileged service to entice people to volunteer information about themselves, publish their ‘ratings’ and compete with friends for status points. This is a new development in the use of audit simultaneously to discipline whole populations and responsibilise individuals to perform according to new state and commercial norms about the reliable/conforming ‘good’ citizen.
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
Death of the Public University?, 2017
Anthropology News, 2017
As we noted in an earlier column, ASAP was active at the Minneapolis meeting with fteen sessions ... more As we noted in an earlier column, ASAP was active at the Minneapolis meeting with fteen sessions on the regular program and another round of our now traditional mentoring session. The two of us wanted to provide some re ections on those sessions so that the insights do not disappear into the ether as we think ahead to the next meetings in Washington. Our lead invited sessions represented the range of ASAP interests with one on a particular topical area, education, and the other on one aspect of the overall policy process, implementation. The education session (organized by Bill Beeman) focused on problems of education achievement disparities in the United States and their entanglement with the issues of race, class, ethnicity, and the politics of exclusion.