期刊名称：Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
电子版ISSN：2330-1392
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：51-64
出版社：Punctum Books
摘要：The first part of this article reports the main events of the 2012 student protest in Quebec leadingto the government’s adoption of Bill 12. It highlights the major ideological conflict generatedthrough the liberal managerial mutation of the academic institutions as a key to understandmore clearly the student’s claims. Rapidly, the standard strike was transformed into a massivemobilization that produced many protests and other forms of resistance. The response givenby the government to these unprecedented acts of resistance was Bill 12, to be understood asa symbolic coup d’état with voluntarily disruptive media effects whose aim was to make peopleforget the massive rejection of a pseudo tentative agreement in relation to Higher Educationreform. The bill was also supported through the abusive and twisted use by the governmentof a series of buzzwords, like “bullying” and “access to education”, which were relayed by themedia. The authors also discuss the issues surrounding the traditional conceptions regardingthe analysis of discourses, mobilizing Orwell’s concept of doublethink and the notion of selfdeceptioninherited form Sartre.
