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Record Nr.

UNINA9910597894803321

Autore

Newman Janet

Titolo

Working the spaces of power : activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour / / Janet Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages)

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women - Political activity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: research as mapmaking -- Talking politics -- Perverse alignments: women's activism and the governmentalization of community -- Close encounters: feminism, policy and the remaking of governance -- Modernizing moments: work, organizations and the entrepreneurial self -- Critical engagements: knowledge-work as political practice -- Border work: generating spaces of power -- Activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour -- Postscript: speaking to the present -- Appendix: conducting the research-ethics, methods and modes of analysis.

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights the way in which contemporary forms of governance, policy and politics have been reframed by women 'working the spaces of power'. It shows how links between activism and work have generated innovations that have since become 'common sense' forms of policy and practice.