TY - CHAP A1 - Salazar-Morales, Diego ED - Murphy, Mark ED - Burke, Ciaran ED - Costa, Cristina ED - Rille, Raaper T1 - Neoliberal governmentality in the Peruvian Higher Education: An example of students’ unions’ resistance and conflict T2 - Theorizing the University: Critical perspectives on institutional research N2 - Diego A. Salazar-Morales In 1991, Peru’s autocratic leader Alberto Fujimori ordered the military to intervene in public universities, claiming that the Maoist organisation Shining Path had long been encouraging students’ ideological radicalisation. Together with this measure, Fujimori also introduced an aggressive privatisation scheme for Peru’s higher education system consisting of tax exemptions, consultancies for private universities, and a lack of general regulatory oversight. After ten years of military intervention and in the wake of Fujimori’s regime (1990–2000) , a dual system was established: a system of well-funded private universities, connected to international academic centres, serving the Peruvian elites; and another system of underfunded public universities, with few international connections, and peripheral to the global academic debate. However, this divide has not only led to marked differences in education quality and access to the job market, it has also created a stigma around public university students and their organised attempts to... Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350141582.ch-014 SP - 219 EP - 238 PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - London ER -