(Re)assembling the ‘normal’ in neoliberal policy discourses

Tracing gender regimes in the age of risk

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12965825
AutoresKatarina Giritli Nygren (0000-0002-5337-3287), Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson (0000-0001-8180-5369)
Año2015
Volumen6
Número0
Fecha de publicación2015-01-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNordic Journal of Social Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1892-2783 • E-ISSN: 1892-2783
EditorialScandinavian University Press (PUBLISHER • NO)
DOI10.15845/njsr.v6i0.605
OpenAlexW2180052757
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas21

The purpose of this article is to explore through a reading of an official Swedish policy document what questions and challenges such a document poses for feminist theory by the way the 'normal' is (re)assembled in accordance with what others have called the risk politics of advanced liberalism. The intensified focus on risk in neoliberalism has seen responsibility move from the state to individuals, and old divisions between society and market as well as between civil society and state are being refigured. The argument put forward here is that current modes of governance tend to neglect the complexities of present-day life courses when using a gender-'neutral' approach to social policy that is in fact the work of a gender regime

Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics