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Title: Excavating cultural imperialism in student mobility programmes
Author/Creator: Manathunga, Catherine
Description: The New Colombo Plan and similar student mobility initiatives in Aotearoa/New Zealand have been pitched as reversing the culturally imperialist focus of the original Colombo Plan (CP) because they involve sending Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand students to the Indo-Pacific region instead of funding Asian students to study overseas. However, changes in this direction of student mobility mask ongoing geopolitical inequities. In order to interrogate these subtle power relations, this article adopts a Foucauldian genealogical approach. It briefly outlines the competing goals of the original CP before undertaking an analysis of the discourses evident in the Australian government’s New Colombo Plan and in the Education New Zealand’s Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia. This discourse analysis illustrates the extent to which the new student mobility programmes established in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand involve consuming the ‘Indo-Pacific’ and ‘Asian’ Other and often serves to reinforce rather than address global geopolitical inequities. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Relation: Discourse / Vol. 39, No. 4, pp.564-574
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1301382
Year: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: FoR 13 (Education) | FoR 16 (Studies in Human Society) | Aotearoa/New Zealand | Australia | Colombo Plan | cultural imperialism | genealogy | student mobility programmes

Collection(s): Research Publications
Resource Type: Journal Article
Identifier: ISSN: 0159-6306
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