ALIENATED YOUTH TRAJECTORIES: SUBJECTIVE MALAISE WITH CHILEAN EDUCATION

Abstract

The article discusses the effects of the educational market in Chile on the subjectivation of young people in their pass from high school to higher education and/or labor market. With a theoretical approach that combines Foucault’s concepts of governmentality and subjectivation, and the Marxist tradition regarding commodification, 40 semi-structured panel interviews of young people from two regions are analyzed under a qualitative scheme. It is concluded that the educational trajectories suppose a highly constituent experience of subjectivity at the same time alienating, giving rise to a subjective malaise that expresses both the problem of educational segregation and the existential crisis with the extreme objectification of life time that market education imposes.