%0 Journal Article
%@ 1465-3346
%A McGimpsey, I
%A Bradbury, A
%A Santori, D
%D 2016
%F discovery:1517959
%J British Journal of Sociology of Education
%K Rationality, networks, neuroscience, well-being, neoliberalism.
%T Revisions to rationality: the translation of ‘new knowledges’ into policy under the Coalition Government
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1517959/
%X This article gives an account of the use of knowledges from emerging scientific fields in education and youth policy making under the Coalition government (2010–15) in the UK. We identify a common process of ‘translation’ and offer three illustrations of policy-making in the UK that utilise diverse knowledges produced in academic fields (neuroscience, network theory and well-being). This production of ‘new knowledges’ in policy contexts allows for the identification of sites of policy intervention. This process of translation underlies a series of diverse revisions of the rational subject of policy. Collectively, these revisions amount to a change in policy-making and the emergence of a different subject of neoliberal policy. This subject is not an excluded alterity to an included rational subject of neoliberalism, but a ‘plastic subject’ characterised by its multiplicity. The plastic subject does not contradict the rational subject as central to neoliberal policy-making, but diversifies it.
%Z Copyright © 2016 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal of Sociology of Education on 04 July 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2016.1202747