Uneasy Neoliberal Governance in a Low-Trust Society

Barriers to Responsibilisation in the Czech Republic

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2392059
AutoresMartin Hájek (0000-0001-9213-6404, Charles University, Czech Republic, autor correspondente), Kristián Šrám (Charles University, Czech Republic), Maksym Kolomoiets (0000-0002-7230-3313, Charles University, Czech Republic), Ivan Cuker (0000-0001-5773-3510, Charles University, Czech Republic)
Ano2020
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas201-218
Data de publicação2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1360780419866464
OpenAlexW4246216386
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas30

In our research, we examined how, if at all, a neoliberal responsibilisation of individuals is under way in the Czech Republic - a society characterised by low trust in its institutional system. Drawing on Giesler and Veresiu's model of three-step consumer responsibilisation, we carried out a qualitative analysis of data generated primarily through an originally designed card-matching game and individual interviews, further complemented with field observation. The findings revealed that distrust in market institutions is generally a barrier to responsibilisation of citizens, leading to several kinds of semi-responsibilised subjectivities instead: restrained subjectivity, partially neoliberally responsibilised subjectivity, and economically responsibilised subjectivity. Lack of confidence in established institutions may effectively weaken or change the process of neoliberal responsibilisation of individuals, in particular in non-economic areas such as the environment, health, and social solidarity

Business · Corporate governance · Czech · Distrust · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Subjectivity · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory