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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457164603321

Titolo

Normalization and "outsiderhood" [[electronic resource] ] : feminist readings of a neoliberal welfare state / / book editors, Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson & Diana Mulinari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[U.A.E.], : Bentham eBooks, [2011]

ISBN

1-60805-279-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Collana

Rethinking research and professional practices in terms of relationality, subjectivity and power

Altri autori (Persone)

FahlgrenSiv

JohanssonAnders

MulinariDiana

Disciplina

330.12209

Soggetti

Neoliberalism

Feminism

Well-being

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Doing the normal : exploring institutional practice -- pt. 2. What the normal does : exploring institutional discourses -- pt. 3. Resisting academic normality : a room of our own.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents an illuminating analysis of the ways in which normalization processes and practices operate in a welfare state in an age of neoliberalism. This informative book problematizes the meaning of the phrase 'normalization processes and practices', that for an Anglophone audience may smack of functionalism. The historical context of the deliberate adoption of normalization processes and practices in Sweden in the post-World War II era was, in the first instance, an expression of the inclusivity designed to decrease inequalities and to achieve social justice. However all the contr