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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"neoliberal governmentality"”.
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"The World Bank's Risk Management Approach to Poverty as a Form of Neoliberal Governmentality? The Case of ""The Social Risk Mitigation Project"" in Turkey"
I aim to go beyond describing the unintended consequences of the project and answer the question of why these unintended consequences matter. I argue that outcomes that might appear as side effects of an intervention to alleviate poverty might, according to another perspective, be considered as …
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"The World Bank's risk management approach to poverty as a form of neoliberal governmentality? The case of the ""social risk mitigation project"" in Turkey"
… literature on development, globalization, risk, neoliberalism, and neoliberal governmentality. Here, by doing an ethnographic study, I explain what kind of activities the World Bank executes under a social risk management project, how different actors (World Bank consultants, state institutions …
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ACTS OF QUEER RESILIENCE: TRAUMA AS IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN LGBTQ POLITICAL ASYLUM
… trauma in an exchange of capital that advances neoliberal governmentality in the U.S. The nation-state benefits when resourceful “victims” of persecution ask for protection. Neoliberal governmentality can be traced to Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” where the body is viewed as a laboring …
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The mermaids dive for freedom: Voices of feminist community activists plunging through neoliberal times
… praxis of feminist community educators in a neoliberal context which has appropriated both community education and feminism for a labour market agenda. It foregrounds listening to the voices and stories of women‟s community education, placing the women‟s voices at the heart of „the …
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The European Union, Immigration and Inequality: “Albanian” Labor in the Political Economy of Rural Greece
… of the European Union and its particular type of neoliberal political system. Greek farmers today are almost totally dependent on immigrant labor from Albania and other Eastern European countries. The presence of immigrants resolves a fundamental contradiction in the political economy of the E.U., …
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Governing Youth Work Through Problems: A WPR Analysis of the ‘Value for Money and Policy Review of Youth Programmes’
… contemporary youth work policy in a context of neoliberal reform. The research specifically focused on analysing data from one particular policy text – the Value for Money and Policy Review of Youth Programmes (VFMPR) (DCYA, 2014). This text was chosen because of its intense interest in the …
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Exploring Selfhood in an Era of Computational Optimization
… and lifestyle ideals that individuals, under neoliberal governmentality, are incentivized to strive for. Promoted and dispersed via everyday technologies, the subtle enforcement of the self-optimization ideal often goes unnoticed. My research aims to bring these things to the fore, asking: How …
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Navigating the neoliberal discursive environment: an inquiry into the experiences of employees in the voluntary and community sector
This doctoral thesis explores how neoliberalism as a mode of governance impacts on the experiences of front-line employees in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). The political and economic context, largely underpinned by a neoliberal ideology, has led over the past 30 years to changes in the …
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A Discourse Analysis of University Internationalization Planning Documents
… this gap, Foucault’s framework of biopower and governmentality were applied to a discourse analysis of the ways in which Big Ten universities’ internationalization planning documents allow for both the reproduction as well as the challenging of neoliberal economic rationalities that permeate …
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Our Best Selves: J. G. Ballard, Jennifer Egan, and Conceptions of Happiness Under Neoliberalism
… I seek to explore conceptions of happiness under neoliberalism through an investigation of contemporary literature, looking at the work of J. G. Ballard and Jennifer Egan. I have sought to offer a loosely Foucauldian reading of the way in which happiness has come to operate as a form of neoliberal …
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Problematizing discourses of feminicide in Guatemala : feminist universalism, neoliberal subject formation and hypervisibility
… The Guatemalan state‘s transition towards neoliberal governmentality, and the gendered subject formation that is a part of this process, raise additional contradictions that merit further attention. State-based approaches to women‘s rights and protection should be merely one element of a …
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Black Influencers: Interrogating the Racialization and Commodification of Digital Labor
… the commodification of the Black feminine body, neoliberal discourses about individualized digital labor, and the racialization of discourses about Black labor and success, I argue that celebrity status flattens and makes palatable political projects easily consumed by digital audiences. In …
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Mobile terms in the conceptual architecture of Michel Foucault's 'Productive Power'
… In a final step that conjoins Biopolitics and ‘Governmentality’, a more specific conceptualisation of ‘population’ comes into the picture. To account for the complexities of ‘Governmentality’ in Foucault’s analysis, this thesis concludes with a three-dimensional model of Governmentality …
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The Urban Poor, Civic Governmentality and the Problem of Participation
… in civic affairs. Drawing on theories of neoliberal governmentality the study traces how civic participation facilitated by the SA SDI Alliance manifests nationally through policy and at the provincial and local government level. The ultimate objective of the thesis centres on how …
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Nothing to See Here: Generative AI, Neoliberal Crisis, and Intensified Counterinsurgency
… deployed in response to the ongoing crisis of neoliberal legitimacy, this dissertation advances the claim that so-called “safe” models extend the counterinsurgent (COIN) mode of governance, both as an effect of the technology’s inherent mode of visualizing “meaning” from unstructured data, and …
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The Equality Act 2010 and empty diversity : neoliberal legislation and inequality in the lives of trans* and sexgender nonconforming people
… changes that have taken place in the context of neoliberal governmentality, including the developments in information technologies. I focus on important issues of materiality and political economy to analyse how the neoliberal logic of inclusion of previously discriminated against populations …
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Shifting Technologies: Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997--2001
"This dissertation is about the neoliberal (sinjayujuui ) transformation of South Korean welfare governance at the historical juncture in which the IMF Crisis converged with Kim Dae Jung presidency. I conducted my research as a member of a temporary research team that assisted the Seoul City …
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Globalization of a U.S. community college and the politics of belonging in the time of upheaval: Remaking of race and class of Korean international community college students
… among (1) the emerging identity politics in neoliberal South Korea where less-profitable young adults are encouraged to leave the domestic labor market, (2) the revival of U.S. nationalistic multiculturalism embedded in educational policies and institutional practices that promote economic …