eprintid: 1517959 rev_number: 34 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/51/79/59 datestamp: 2017-01-23 14:11:51 lastmod: 2021-10-14 22:30:09 status_changed: 2017-02-01 12:58:51 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: McGimpsey, I creators_name: Bradbury, A creators_name: Santori, D title: Revisions to rationality: the translation of ‘new knowledges’ into policy under the Coalition Government ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 keywords: Rationality, networks, neuroscience, well-being, neoliberalism. note: 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 abstract: 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. date: 2016-07 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1202747 oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1180636 doi: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1202747 lyricists_name: Bradbury, Alice lyricists_id: ABRAD72 actors_name: Bradbury, Alice actors_id: ABRAD72 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: British Journal of Sociology of Education issn: 1465-3346 citation: McGimpsey, I; Bradbury, A; Santori, D; (2016) Revisions to rationality: the translation of ‘new knowledges’ into policy under the Coalition Government. British Journal of Sociology of Education 10.1080/01425692.2016.1202747 <https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1202747>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1517959/1/McGimpsey_Revisions%20to%20rationality%20the%20translation%20of%20new%20knowledgesAAM.pdf