Militarized Neoliberalism in Colombia: Disarticulating Dissent and Articulating Consent to Neoliberal Epistemologies, Pedagogies, and Ways of Life

Abstract

The regime of the Uribe governments (2000–2010) entrenched exclusionary, militarized forms of domination. Notably, the initial passive revolutionary form of neoliberalism was developed into a fragile and highly contradictory neoliberal hegemony during this period. It was articulated in a populist militarized form in which institutional mechanisms, ideological practices, and epistemological logics attempted to articulate the hegemonic educator as a passive, fragmented, and deprofessionalized subject and the student as an individualized, consumer, and depoliticized subject. However, the continued levels of coercion and eradication against all “others” created the conditions for these external others to continue to develop critical, antiauthoritarian pedagogical-political projects throughout Colombian society (to be explored in chap. 6).