A Minor, Administrative Matter: The University and Management

Abstract

The university, its practice and its objectives, have been the subject of public discussion for years. In this article we reflect on two main discourses that have played a central role in articulating what we know today as academia in Chile. The masculine and the managerial have given the university in Chile a particular character. In other words, the university has been constituted around a productivist activity that seeks its own optimization through efficiency and effectiveness. In that process, its political dimension has been rendered invisible.