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Normalization and "outsiderhood" : feminist readings of a neoliberal welfare state / book editors, Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson & Diana Mulinari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahlgren, Siv, Author.
- Series:
- Rethinking research and professional practices in terms of relationality, subjectivity and power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neoliberalism.
- Feminism.
- Well-being.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [U.A.E.] : Bentham eBooks, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781608052790
- 1608052796
- OCLC:
- 779141380
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