K Brunila
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 48894 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K Brunila |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | Brunila |
| ASSINATURA | BRUNILA K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2548-2897 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Let me tell you, education raises you up”
The Promise of edu-business
Edu-business is changing understandings, aims, content and methods of education on both a European and global scale. This is also the case in Finland, where various private educational enterprises are gaining a stronger role in defining what education is and should be. In this article, informed by our previous conceptual work related to changes in education governance and marketisation and privatisation of education, we are analysing interviews o…
The ambiguities of autonomy in youth training programmes
In recent decades, young people have been provided with various support systems, including therapeutic training programmes to enhance their mental health and well-being through empowerment and support of individual autonomy. In this paper, we examine the ideal of autonomy professed by training programmes for young people. We focused on analysing the inherent ambivalence surrounding the nature of this autonomy, and its manifestation in two youth s…
Now That I Am Mama, I Think a Lot”
Women’s Problems Are Everyone’s Problem, but Men’s Problems Are Their Own’—Anti-feminist Meaning-making in Affective Discourses on Young Men’s Mental Health
This article introduces new insights into the cultural discourse surrounding young men’s mental health in modern-day Finland. Utilizing survey data ( n = 975) and online discussions about men’s mental health, we delve into the affective–discursive alignments with ideas related to gender and gender equality in the context of young men’s mental health. We contextualize these alignments within the framework of therapeutic culture in Finland. Our exa…
Reproducing inequality through ambivalence, ignorance, and innocence – Revisiting practices of equality and human rights in Finnish teacher education
Finland has repeatedly been presented as a “success story” of equality and education, promoter of human rights and included equality and human rights as part of national curricula. However, research has shown the slow progress of integrating topics of equality and human rights in teacher education despite hundreds of project-based interventions during the past 50 years. We used historically informed discursive reading drawing from the existent li…
Everywhere you get models of what you should be like’
This paper presents a novel approach to youth mental health by examining the connections between young Finnish men’s mental health, ideals of masculinity, and public discourses of mental health. Drawing from critical sociological and feminist theories on gender, power, and therapeutic culture, we apply a thematic discursive analysis to a questionnaire data (n = 910) about men’s mental health targeted at young men (primarily aged 15-29). The findi…
The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn
We examine the ideal twenty-first century learner as discursively produced in recent future-oriented documents published by the OECD and UNESCO. Drawing inspiration from Bacchi's question 'What is the problem represented to be?', we identify a constellation of interrelated discourses that together craft an image of a post-political, resilient, empathic, bio-perfected, transhuman learner. This learner is conditioned to endure, adapt and adjust to …
Cultural practices, young people and the ethos of vulnerability in Finland
In this article, we delve into an examination of how the ethos of vulnerability is manifested within cultural practices related to young people in Finland, thereby shaping and determining the conditions of what is possible for the kinds of subjects that young people can become. We employed the term ‘affective subjectivation’ to elucidate the processes through which young people from diverse life situations are inclined to turn themselves into vul…
The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia
Public debate and media attention concerning mental health problems, stress, psycho-emotional vulnerabilities, and anxiety among university students has reached record level. Informed by media representations, student mental health guides, and our observations, we focus on the ethos of vulnerability as an articulation of psychologized student subjectivity in Finnish academia. We explore the multiple registers in which the ethos of vulnerability t…
Racialised Integration
Finland’s integration policy is praised for its inclusivity and for guaranteeing equal opportunities. This paper examines how integration processes work within such an ideal image. Building on theoretical and critical discussions of integration and racialisation, we approach integration as a mechanism of racialisation and discuss the consequences of racialised integration practices for Arabic-speaking refugees and immigrants living in Finland. We…
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds
Education governance is shifting towards more individually and personally tailored governance, to pre-empt futures to manage the present. Managing the present requires the fabrication of a specific type of future-oriented learning human kinds. Economically driven imperatives, strengthening transnational stakeholder networks and advances in the life and behavioural sciences are important parts of this shift while transforming the aims, content and…
Educating for the future? Mapping the emerging lines of precision education governance
Managing the future has become one of the major focuses of global governance in education. In its current mode, education seems unable to answer the needs and interests of the market and future megatrends, such as globalisation and digitalisation. Calls for precision education to introduce the usage of digital platforms, artificial intelligence in education, and knowledge from the behavioural and life sciences are getting a foothold in widening p…
Remote learning experiences of girls, boys and non-binary students
Self-regulated learning (SRL) may determine adapting to online environments. This study is an evaluation of students' (N = 33 912) SRL and integration in remote learning in Finnish lower secondary schools when educational institutions all over the world were urgently closed and teaching was arranged in remote settings due to COVID-19. Neither the teachers nor the students had time to prepare themselves for the transition, resulting in variations …
Fragile utopias and dystopias? Governing the future(s) in the OECD youth education policies
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of ‘crisis’ in ‘traditional education’ the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governance, in which so-called best practices of precise, flexible and highly individualised and personalis…
Shaping the Selves of “At Risk” Youth in Debt and Poverty in the Context of Economic Vulnerability
Drawing on two interrelated areas of youth work, outreach youth work as a place of coordination of work, social benefits and social services, and youth workshops as a place for work training for young people “at risk”, our aim in this article is to analyse how young people in poor financial circumstances are governed through policies and practices in these institutions in Finland. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with young people a…
The Positivity Imperative in Youth Education as a Form of Cruel Optimism
In this paper, we revisit the persistent positivity imperative in Finnish youth education by analysing findings from an on-going research project related to various educational interventions targeted at young people ‘at risk’. The article is focused on youth education as an emblematic manifestation of therapeutic ethos and neoliberalism. These manifestations are part of the emergence of the Nordic therapeutic welfare state where neoliberalisation…
Outreach youth work and employability in the ethos of vulnerability
There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction of knowledge and subjectivities of young people related to it. We argue that among the good intentio…
The Nordic therapeutic welfare state and its resilient citizens
This article deals with the neoliberalisation of the Nordic welfare state, and especially how it is occurring via therapeutic policies and practices. We suggest that neoliberal welfare state reform is intensified by therapeutic policies and practices, as they aim at producing resilient citizens who provide for their own needs and constantly develop their competitiveness. By treating social problems as questions of individual deficiencies and impr…
Youth on the Move
The book addresses one of the most urgent social problems in many countries, the uncertain school-to-work transitions of young people. As a result, a ‘transition machinery’ has been created, consisting of various education and training measures realised by e.g. teachers and youth workers. The volume demonstrates that discourses related to youth transitions do not simply describe young adults but create them. For example, young people are expected…
Enhancing criticality and resistance through teaching in the neoliberal academy
The discursive production of misbehaviour in professional literature
Bad student behaviour is argued to be one of the major challenges for schools today. In response to the challenge, there is a strong body of literature aiming at fixing student behaviour. In this paper, we look into professional knowledge discourses regarding ‘bad student behaviour,’ focusing on one national context, Finland, to explore how disturbing behaviour is discursively established in the professional literature for teachers seeking help w…
What’s the problem (represented to be) in Finnish youth policies and youth support systems
Young people’s unemployment and social exclusion – the so-called ‘youth problem’ – is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produce this ‘youth problem’ in Finland, 2) what are the assumptions behind these problematisations, and 3…
Interrupting psychological management of youth training
The main aim of this article is to highlight how existence as well as choice in the context of young people “at risk” stems not so much from the individual young person as from the condition of possibility. A secondary aim is to interrupt current understanding of the possible conditions of young people from various backgrounds within the rise of psychological management, and of the potential role of various kinds of youth-support systems. The art…
Becoming integrateable
This article scrutinises the normalised realities behind integration policies and training for refugees and immigrants that are claimed to be inclusive. The ‘great narrative’ of Finland has been focused on equal opportunity via education and training, which makes it even more important to examine the hidden realities and how such realities affect the integration process. We focus on labour market-oriented integration training, since employment is…
Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and 'therapisation' of social justice
In numerous countries, pessimism about enduring social and educational inequalities has produced a discernible therapeutic turn in education policy and practice, and a parallel rise in therapeutic understandings of social justice. Focusing on developments in England and Finland, this article explores the ways in which radical/critical conceptualisations of social justice privilege attention to psycho-emotional vulnerabilities. Extending older for…
The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn
We examine the ideal twenty-first century learner as discursively produced in recent future-oriented documents published by the OECD and UNESCO. Drawing inspiration from Bacchi's question 'What is the problem represented to be?', we identify a constellation of interrelated discourses that together craft an image of a post-political, resilient, empathic, bio-perfected, transhuman learner. This learner is conditioned to endure, adapt and adjust to …
The Projectisation, Marketisation and Therapisation of Education
Publicly funded projects with economic aims and discourses have permeated the public sector, including education. In practice this has meant a shift whereby publicly funded education has evolved into a series of business-oriented projects with individually targeted activities. The rapidly increasing amount of project-based work in education is a result of a shift whereby Finland has become a project society. In this article I will disclose the al…
The Rise of the Survival Discourse in an Era of Therapisation and Neoliberalism
The article focuses on how neoliberalism and therapisation are shaping perceptions of the problems faced by young people, particularly those considered ‘at risk’, and how young people as a consequence are identified. It argues that the alliance of neoliberalism and therapisation offers young people the position of a ‘survivalist’, especially those deemed to be at risk. How this survival discourse, derived from government policy and educational pr…
Identity politics, the ethos of vulnerability, and education
In this article, identity politics is understood as a form of politics stressing collective but malleable group identities as the basis of political action. This notion of identity politics also allows thinking of identity as intersectional. The focus of this article, and a problem related to identity politics, is that when discussed in the context of the neoliberal order, identity politics has a tendency to become harnessed by the ethos of vulne…
Preoccupied with the self
In the neoliberal order, the ideal self is self-responsible, enterprising, flexible and self-centred. Regarding this ideal we argue that the rise of therapisation in society, and in education, particularly, links both the therapeutic and enterprising discourses. The article examines how these discourses jointly produce and legitimate the ideal, and thus, the preoccupied subjectivity of the neoliberal order. As a discursive form of power therapisa…
From risk to resilience
This article considers the rise of therapeutic education in Finland, a phenomenon already acknowledged in Europe, Canada and the United States. In Finland, the therapeutic ethos has been assimilated into educational policies and practices, but the shift to therapisation and especially its consequences have attracted little interest in critical educational research. This article is based on a Foucauldian discourse-analytic methodology and on a pre…
Hooked on a feeling
Education in Finland is facing new challenges in the form of two related trends: ‘therapisation’ and ‘projectisation’. The concept of therapisation describes the ways in which ideas, discourses and practices from counselling, therapy, psychiatry, educational and clinical psychology become internalised and normalised in education. Projectisation represents a disciplinary and productive form of power related to project-based activities that have pe…
The Ambivalences of Becoming a Professor in Neoliberal Academia
The article is a mode of drifting of experiences of an academically young critical scholar, a woman who recently became a tenure track professor of social justice and equality in education in a Nordic "model country of equality." The concept of experience in this article is not used in the sense of individuals having experiences; rather, it is about an academic subject, a young academic professor, who constitutes herself and is constituted as an …
Becoming integrateable
This article scrutinises the normalised realities behind integration policies and training for refugees and immigrants that are claimed to be inclusive. The ‘great narrative’ of Finland has been focused on equal opportunity via education and training, which makes it even more important to examine the hidden realities and how such realities affect the integration process. We focus on labour market-oriented integration training, since employment is…
Cartography of Gender Equality Projects in Ict
This paper examines gender equality activities in the context of information and communication technology (ICT), traces the social and cultural relations that intertwine with them and discusses the understandings of gender, equality and ICT maintained in them. The aim of the paper is to analyse how liberal equal treatment actions prevail in ICT, although it is well known that liberal politics alone do not succeed in promoting gender equality, and…
What’s the problem (represented to be) in Finnish youth policies and youth support systems
Young people’s unemployment and social exclusion – the so-called ‘youth problem’ – is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produce this ‘youth problem’ in Finland, 2) what are the assumptions behind these problematisations, and 3…
Constituting Immigrant Care Workers Through Gendering and Racialising Practices in Education
The focus of this paper is to examine how immigrants become constituted as ideal care workers in educational settings. By analysing the everyday practices in two educational contexts in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, the authors explore how these practices that are influenced by the national and transnational immigration and integration policy, regardless of their well-meant actions, can gender and racialise students with immigrant stat…
Education and Training as Projectised and Precarious Politics
This article explores a new kind of political ethos in education: the alliance of projectisation and precarisation and their individual-based implementation. It is a critique of project based activities working with ‘at risk’ groups in Finland, specifically in the preparation of immigrants and those with criminal backgrounds, for a life of precarity. The projects discussed refer to publicly funded, short-term educational programmes that operate o…
Democratic Education for Hope
This paper provides a reinterpretation of Paulo Freire’s philosophy of hope and suggests that this interpretation may function as a fruitful ground for democratic education that aims to contest the prevailing neoliberal ‘common sense’. The paper defines hope as a democratic virtue required for resisting the discursive practises and affective mechanisms associated with the contemporary neoliberal ethos—those, which Carlos Alberto Torres characteri…
Vulnerabilizing Young People
This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies and practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim is to scrutinize the alliance of the ethos of vulnerability and neoliberal rationality as well as its outcomes in terms of support systems and young people from various backgrounds. In the end, we take our analysis further to see how this alliance is associated with education and how it works by de-politici…
Everywhere you get models of what you should be like’
This paper presents a novel approach to youth mental health by examining the connections between young Finnish men’s mental health, ideals of masculinity, and public discourses of mental health. Drawing from critical sociological and feminist theories on gender, power, and therapeutic culture, we apply a thematic discursive analysis to a questionnaire data (n = 910) about men’s mental health targeted at young men (primarily aged 15-29). The findi…
Outreach youth work and employability in the ethos of vulnerability
There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction of knowledge and subjectivities of young people related to it. We argue that among the good intentio…
Cultural practices, young people and the ethos of vulnerability in Finland
In this article, we delve into an examination of how the ethos of vulnerability is manifested within cultural practices related to young people in Finland, thereby shaping and determining the conditions of what is possible for the kinds of subjects that young people can become. We employed the term ‘affective subjectivation’ to elucidate the processes through which young people from diverse life situations are inclined to turn themselves into vul…
Fragile utopias and dystopias? Governing the future(s) in the OECD youth education policies
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of ‘crisis’ in ‘traditional education’ the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governance, in which so-called best practices of precise, flexible and highly individualised and personalis…
Bad behaviour in school
Disturbing, problematic, or challenging student behaviour is said to be among the greatest challenges facing today’s school life. However, despite the apparent commonsensical nature of the issue, there is no commonly agreed upon definition for such events, and there is often very thin analysis of what actually becomes disturbed, challenged, or problematised in such instances. In this article, disturbing behaviour is seen as a discursive practice …
The ambiguities of autonomy in youth training programmes
In recent decades, young people have been provided with various support systems, including therapeutic training programmes to enhance their mental health and well-being through empowerment and support of individual autonomy. In this paper, we examine the ideal of autonomy professed by training programmes for young people. We focused on analysing the inherent ambivalence surrounding the nature of this autonomy, and its manifestation in two youth s…
Women’s Problems Are Everyone’s Problem, but Men’s Problems Are Their Own’—Anti-feminist Meaning-making in Affective Discourses on Young Men’s Mental Health
This article introduces new insights into the cultural discourse surrounding young men’s mental health in modern-day Finland. Utilizing survey data ( n = 975) and online discussions about men’s mental health, we delve into the affective–discursive alignments with ideas related to gender and gender equality in the context of young men’s mental health. We contextualize these alignments within the framework of therapeutic culture in Finland. Our exa…
The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia
Public debate and media attention concerning mental health problems, stress, psycho-emotional vulnerabilities, and anxiety among university students has reached record level. Informed by media representations, student mental health guides, and our observations, we focus on the ethos of vulnerability as an articulation of psychologized student subjectivity in Finnish academia. We explore the multiple registers in which the ethos of vulnerability t…
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds
Education governance is shifting towards more individually and personally tailored governance, to pre-empt futures to manage the present. Managing the present requires the fabrication of a specific type of future-oriented learning human kinds. Economically driven imperatives, strengthening transnational stakeholder networks and advances in the life and behavioural sciences are important parts of this shift while transforming the aims, content and…
Cartography of Gender Equality Projects in Ict
This paper examines gender equality activities in the context of information and communication technology (ICT), traces the social and cultural relations that intertwine with them and discusses the understandings of gender, equality and ICT maintained in them. The aim of the paper is to analyse how liberal equal treatment actions prevail in ICT, although it is well known that liberal politics alone do not succeed in promoting gender equality, and…
The Projectisation, Marketisation and Therapisation of Education
Publicly funded projects with economic aims and discourses have permeated the public sector, including education. In practice this has meant a shift whereby publicly funded education has evolved into a series of business-oriented projects with individually targeted activities. The rapidly increasing amount of project-based work in education is a result of a shift whereby Finland has become a project society. In this article I will disclose the al…
From risk to resilience
This article considers the rise of therapeutic education in Finland, a phenomenon already acknowledged in Europe, Canada and the United States. In Finland, the therapeutic ethos has been assimilated into educational policies and practices, but the shift to therapisation and especially its consequences have attracted little interest in critical educational research. This article is based on a Foucauldian discourse-analytic methodology and on a pre…
Hooked on a feeling
Education in Finland is facing new challenges in the form of two related trends: ‘therapisation’ and ‘projectisation’. The concept of therapisation describes the ways in which ideas, discourses and practices from counselling, therapy, psychiatry, educational and clinical psychology become internalised and normalised in education. Projectisation represents a disciplinary and productive form of power related to project-based activities that have pe…
Persuasions, Resistance and Other Discourse Virtuosities
This article concerns the discursive power relations that have led to equality work in Finland. In addition to marketisation, publicly-funded projects, especially those funded by the European Union, have permeated the public sector. Equality has been labelled women’s work and something that women do and the continuity of equality work requires a complex form of competence. In this article, ways have been looked to analyse the current situation by…
The Rise of the Survival Discourse in an Era of Therapisation and Neoliberalism
The article focuses on how neoliberalism and therapisation are shaping perceptions of the problems faced by young people, particularly those considered ‘at risk’, and how young people as a consequence are identified. It argues that the alliance of neoliberalism and therapisation offers young people the position of a ‘survivalist’, especially those deemed to be at risk. How this survival discourse, derived from government policy and educational pr…
Education and Training as Projectised and Precarious Politics
This article explores a new kind of political ethos in education: the alliance of projectisation and precarisation and their individual-based implementation. It is a critique of project based activities working with ‘at risk’ groups in Finland, specifically in the preparation of immigrants and those with criminal backgrounds, for a life of precarity. The projects discussed refer to publicly funded, short-term educational programmes that operate o…
Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and 'therapisation' of social justice
In numerous countries, pessimism about enduring social and educational inequalities has produced a discernible therapeutic turn in education policy and practice, and a parallel rise in therapeutic understandings of social justice. Focusing on developments in England and Finland, this article explores the ways in which radical/critical conceptualisations of social justice privilege attention to psycho-emotional vulnerabilities. Extending older for…
Troubling gender equality
This article concerns gender equality work, that is, those educational and workplace activities that involve the promotion of gender equality. It is based on research conducted in Sweden and Finland, and focuses on the period during which the public sector has become more market-oriented and project-based all over the Nordic countries. The consequences of this development on gender equality work have not yet been thoroughly analysed. Our joint em…
Becoming entrepreneurial
In Finland, young people who are neither employed nor in any education or training programme are expected to participate in short-term education, the aim being to improve their work life and employment skills, and thus make them more accountable for their labour market outcomes. An extensive assortment of so-called transition activities is created to guide young adults ‘into society’. The empirical data is analysed by using a discursive approach.…
Preoccupied with the self
In the neoliberal order, the ideal self is self-responsible, enterprising, flexible and self-centred. Regarding this ideal we argue that the rise of therapisation in society, and in education, particularly, links both the therapeutic and enterprising discourses. The article examines how these discourses jointly produce and legitimate the ideal, and thus, the preoccupied subjectivity of the neoliberal order. As a discursive form of power therapisa…
The Ambivalences of Becoming a Professor in Neoliberal Academia
The article is a mode of drifting of experiences of an academically young critical scholar, a woman who recently became a tenure track professor of social justice and equality in education in a Nordic "model country of equality." The concept of experience in this article is not used in the sense of individuals having experiences; rather, it is about an academic subject, a young academic professor, who constitutes herself and is constituted as an …
Prison Break. Education of young adults in closed prisons—building a bridge from prison to civil society
Prison education is seen in both criminal and education policies as a way of assimilating inmates ‘back into society’. In spite of the policy emphasis on education, the practices in prison education vary from prison to prison. The stated aim of prison education in EU and in Finnish national level policies is to teach inmates the skills and knowledge that they can use in life after release and thus reduce recidivism. In this paper, we analyse poli…
Exploring the possibilities of gender equality pedagogy in an era of marketization
In this article, we research and revisit our own experiences of gender equality work to determine the societal and discursive power relations that have shaped gender equality. We conducted our study in Finland, a ‘Nordic model of gender equality’, but we argue that these results have worldwide relevance, especially since Nordic models of gender equality and education have been exported globally. By combining earlier research, our own extensive ex…
Identity politics, the ethos of vulnerability, and education
In this article, identity politics is understood as a form of politics stressing collective but malleable group identities as the basis of political action. This notion of identity politics also allows thinking of identity as intersectional. The focus of this article, and a problem related to identity politics, is that when discussed in the context of the neoliberal order, identity politics has a tendency to become harnessed by the ethos of vulne…
Anxiety and the making of research(ing) subjects in neoliberal academia
Interrupting psychological management of youth training
The main aim of this article is to highlight how existence as well as choice in the context of young people “at risk” stems not so much from the individual young person as from the condition of possibility. A secondary aim is to interrupt current understanding of the possible conditions of young people from various backgrounds within the rise of psychological management, and of the potential role of various kinds of youth-support systems. The art…
Becoming integrateable
This article scrutinises the normalised realities behind integration policies and training for refugees and immigrants that are claimed to be inclusive. The ‘great narrative’ of Finland has been focused on equal opportunity via education and training, which makes it even more important to examine the hidden realities and how such realities affect the integration process. We focus on labour market-oriented integration training, since employment is…
Bad behaviour in school
Disturbing, problematic, or challenging student behaviour is said to be among the greatest challenges facing today’s school life. However, despite the apparent commonsensical nature of the issue, there is no commonly agreed upon definition for such events, and there is often very thin analysis of what actually becomes disturbed, challenged, or problematised in such instances. In this article, disturbing behaviour is seen as a discursive practice …
Democratic Education for Hope
This paper provides a reinterpretation of Paulo Freire’s philosophy of hope and suggests that this interpretation may function as a fruitful ground for democratic education that aims to contest the prevailing neoliberal ‘common sense’. The paper defines hope as a democratic virtue required for resisting the discursive practises and affective mechanisms associated with the contemporary neoliberal ethos—those, which Carlos Alberto Torres characteri…
Vulnerabilizing Young People
This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies and practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim is to scrutinize the alliance of the ethos of vulnerability and neoliberal rationality as well as its outcomes in terms of support systems and young people from various backgrounds. In the end, we take our analysis further to see how this alliance is associated with education and how it works by de-politici…
Constituting Immigrant Care Workers Through Gendering and Racialising Practices in Education
The focus of this paper is to examine how immigrants become constituted as ideal care workers in educational settings. By analysing the everyday practices in two educational contexts in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, the authors explore how these practices that are influenced by the national and transnational immigration and integration policy, regardless of their well-meant actions, can gender and racialise students with immigrant stat…
The Nordic therapeutic welfare state and its resilient citizens
This article deals with the neoliberalisation of the Nordic welfare state, and especially how it is occurring via therapeutic policies and practices. We suggest that neoliberal welfare state reform is intensified by therapeutic policies and practices, as they aim at producing resilient citizens who provide for their own needs and constantly develop their competitiveness. By treating social problems as questions of individual deficiencies and impr…
Youth on the Move
The book addresses one of the most urgent social problems in many countries, the uncertain school-to-work transitions of young people. As a result, a ‘transition machinery’ has been created, consisting of various education and training measures realised by e.g. teachers and youth workers. The volume demonstrates that discourses related to youth transitions do not simply describe young adults but create them. For example, young people are expected…
Enhancing criticality and resistance through teaching in the neoliberal academy
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