Working the spaces of power : activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour / / Janet Newman.
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 they took activist commitments into their working lives, in the process negotiating the terrain of neoliberal gove...
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Newman, Janet. Working the spaces of power [electronic resource] : activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour / Janet Newman. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. 1 online resource (225 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Description based upon print version of record. Cover; Contents; List of Participants; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Research as Mapmaking; Gendering the analysis; Personal and political - doing the research; Research as mapmaking; The structure of the book; Conclusion; 2 Talking Politics; Finding politics; Enacting politics; In and out of the party; Transgressive politics; Conclusion: mapping change; 3 Perverse Alignments: Women''s Activism and the Governmentalization of Community; Imaginaries of community; Governmentalizing community; Ambiguous spaces and problematic politics; Perverse alignments? 4 Close Encounters: Feminism, Policy and the Remaking of GovernanceGender agendas and social policy; Remaking governance; The politics of 'mainstreaming' and 'monitoring'; Mainstreaming; Monitory power; Conclusion; 5 Modernizing Moments: Work, Organizations and the Entrepreneurial Self; Challenging 'tradition'; Challenging professions; In and against the (local) state; New managerial times; Entrepreneurial selves; Conclusion; 6 Critical Engagements: Knowledge-work as Political Practice; Knowledge-work as political practice; The politics of recognition Close encounters: research, policy and practiceIn and beyond the cultural turn; Conclusion; 7 Border Work: Generating Spaces of Power; Borders and crossings; Border work as generative (and gendered) labour: conceptual resources; Organizations, professions and sectors; Professional change; The cross-sector dance; Liminal spaces; Strategic brokers; Emotion and affect; Power and agency; Conclusion; 8 Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour; Feminism and neoliberalism; Neoliberalism in question; Spaces of power; Landscapes of antagonism; Conclusion; 9 Postscript: Speaking to the Present Political formationBorder work; Spaces of power; Generative (and gendered) labour; Making visible; Public conversations; Creative labour; Final reflection; Appendix: Conducting the Research - Ethics, Methods and Modes of Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W 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 they took activist commitments into their working lives, in the process negotiating the terrain of neoliberal governance. Their work generated new political movements, community initiatives, public policies, organizational logics and forms of ''knowledge work''. Newman draws on over 50 interviews with women from four generations to interrogate, develop and challenge existing approaches to understanding social and political change English Women Political activity. Women in public life Interviews. Political planning. Neoliberalism. Electronic books. 1-84966-489-7 1-84966-490-0 |
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Newman, Janet. Working the spaces of power activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour / Cover; Contents; List of Participants; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Research as Mapmaking; Gendering the analysis; Personal and political - doing the research; Research as mapmaking; The structure of the book; Conclusion; 2 Talking Politics; Finding politics; Enacting politics; In and out of the party; Transgressive politics; Conclusion: mapping change; 3 Perverse Alignments: Women''s Activism and the Governmentalization of Community; Imaginaries of community; Governmentalizing community; Ambiguous spaces and problematic politics; Perverse alignments? 4 Close Encounters: Feminism, Policy and the Remaking of GovernanceGender agendas and social policy; Remaking governance; The politics of 'mainstreaming' and 'monitoring'; Mainstreaming; Monitory power; Conclusion; 5 Modernizing Moments: Work, Organizations and the Entrepreneurial Self; Challenging 'tradition'; Challenging professions; In and against the (local) state; New managerial times; Entrepreneurial selves; Conclusion; 6 Critical Engagements: Knowledge-work as Political Practice; Knowledge-work as political practice; The politics of recognition Close encounters: research, policy and practiceIn and beyond the cultural turn; Conclusion; 7 Border Work: Generating Spaces of Power; Borders and crossings; Border work as generative (and gendered) labour: conceptual resources; Organizations, professions and sectors; Professional change; The cross-sector dance; Liminal spaces; Strategic brokers; Emotion and affect; Power and agency; Conclusion; 8 Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour; Feminism and neoliberalism; Neoliberalism in question; Spaces of power; Landscapes of antagonism; Conclusion; 9 Postscript: Speaking to the Present Political formationBorder work; Spaces of power; Generative (and gendered) labour; Making visible; Public conversations; Creative labour; Final reflection; Appendix: Conducting the Research - Ethics, Methods and Modes of Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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Cover; Contents; List of Participants; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Research as Mapmaking; Gendering the analysis; Personal and political - doing the research; Research as mapmaking; The structure of the book; Conclusion; 2 Talking Politics; Finding politics; Enacting politics; In and out of the party; Transgressive politics; Conclusion: mapping change; 3 Perverse Alignments: Women''s Activism and the Governmentalization of Community; Imaginaries of community; Governmentalizing community; Ambiguous spaces and problematic politics; Perverse alignments? 4 Close Encounters: Feminism, Policy and the Remaking of GovernanceGender agendas and social policy; Remaking governance; The politics of 'mainstreaming' and 'monitoring'; Mainstreaming; Monitory power; Conclusion; 5 Modernizing Moments: Work, Organizations and the Entrepreneurial Self; Challenging 'tradition'; Challenging professions; In and against the (local) state; New managerial times; Entrepreneurial selves; Conclusion; 6 Critical Engagements: Knowledge-work as Political Practice; Knowledge-work as political practice; The politics of recognition Close encounters: research, policy and practiceIn and beyond the cultural turn; Conclusion; 7 Border Work: Generating Spaces of Power; Borders and crossings; Border work as generative (and gendered) labour: conceptual resources; Organizations, professions and sectors; Professional change; The cross-sector dance; Liminal spaces; Strategic brokers; Emotion and affect; Power and agency; Conclusion; 8 Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour; Feminism and neoliberalism; Neoliberalism in question; Spaces of power; Landscapes of antagonism; Conclusion; 9 Postscript: Speaking to the Present Political formationBorder work; Spaces of power; Generative (and gendered) labour; Making visible; Public conversations; Creative labour; Final reflection; Appendix: Conducting the Research - Ethics, Methods and Modes of Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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