Politicisation, engagement, depoliticisation – the neoliberal politics of care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11432166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania (0000-0003-0205-9383, University of Tampere, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-247 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0261018318772032 |
| OpenAlex | W2799636671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
Many European nations share a political challenge: the ageing population and recessionary economics lead to dwindling resources for welfare services, while scandals and reports of unacceptable deficits in particular in care services for older people arise. In Finland this situation was responded to with a new Care Act for Older People that was passed in 2013. This article tracks the legislative process of the law and demonstrates how this issue of fundamental values and resources was turned into a question of apolitical governance and expert management, resulting in a dubious, status-quo supporting law. It presents a case of how the subsumption of homo politicus in the neoliberal era in practice can happen, and how depoliticisation can function in a context with which neoliberalism is not often associated: namely the care policy of a traditionally social-democratic Nordic welfare state
Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Legislature · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · Status quo · Welfare state · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
An Ethics of Needs
The saviour of the welfare state
Dividing Responsibility for Care
Governing through absence
Hegemonic digitalisation in policy on older people
Family's role in long‐term care—A qualitative study of Finnish family members' experiences on supporting the functional ability of an older relative
Distributed agency in financial tasks of older people with long-term care needs
Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
Globalization and the erosion of the Nordic model
The Subject and Power
Power, discourse, and policy
(Un)equal Treatment? Elderly care and disability services for people with dementia in Finland
A Household Full of Bodies
Neo-liberalism Meets the Nordic Welfare State—Gaps and Silences
The women-friendly welfare states revisited
Late neoliberalism
When Is a Market Not a Market
Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy
Rolling back to roll forward
Depoliticisation, governance and the state
The Power of the Vulnerable Body
Care 'going market
Undoing the Demos
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |