Foucault, governmentality, and critique
In: Cultural politics & the promise of democracy
In: Cultural politics & the promise of democracy
In: Södertörn philosophical studies 14
In: Critical issues in global politics 3
In: Journal for cultural research, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 365-380
ISSN: 1740-1666
In: Stato e mercato, Band 103, Heft 1
ISSN: 0392-9701
In: Journal of international relations and development: JIRD, official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association, Band 18, Heft 4, S. [482]-504
ISSN: 1408-6980
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 482-504
ISSN: 1581-1980
The article investigates the consequences for feminist politics of the neoliberal turn. Feminist scholars have analysed the political changes in the situation of women that have been brought about by neoliberalism, but their assessments of neoliberalism's consequences for feminist theory and politics vary. Feminist thinkers such as Hester Eisenstein and Sylvia Walby have argued that feminism must now return its focus to socialist politics and foreground economic questions of redistribution in order to combat the hegemony of neoliberalism. Some have further identified post-structuralism and its dominance in feminist scholarship as being responsible for the debilitating move away from socialist or Marxist paradigms. I share their diagnosis to the extent that it is my contention that the rapid neoliberalization characterising the last thirty years has put women and feminist thought in a completely new political situation. However, in contrast to those feminist thinkers who put the blame for the current impasse on the rise of poststructuralist modes of thought, it is my contention that the poststructuralist turn in feminist theory in the 1980s and 1990s continues to represent an important theoretical advance. I will discuss Foucault's genealogy of neoliberalism in order to assess the ways it can contribute to feminist theory and politics today. I contend that Foucault can provide a critical diagnostic framework for feminist theory as well as for prompting new feminist political responses to the spread and dominance of neoliberalism. I will also return to Nancy Fraser and Judith's Butler's seminal debate on feminist politics in the journal Social Text (1997) in order to demonstrate that a critical analysis of the economic/cultural distinction must be central when we consider feminist forms of resistance to neoliberalism.
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In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 339-361
ISSN: 1476-9336
In: Constellations, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 474-487
In: The Power of Words in International Relations, S. 53-64
In: Between Empires, S. 72-87
In: Public policy research: PPR, Band 13, Heft 4
ISSN: 1744-540X
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 49-64
ISSN: 1475-8059
This inquiry analyzes human rights as a systemic phenomenon. One of the central arguments of this inquiry is that it is not possible to consider human rights claims in abstraction from the question of institutional structures, processes of subjectification, the provision of collective goods, and the normative ideas concerning what it means to be a human. The empirical focus of the discussion is European human rights law.
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