neoliberal women? rethinking professionalisation wendy larner
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Neoliberal Women? Rethinking Professionalisation
Wendy Larner
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Neoliberal Women?• Feminist analysts of neoliberalism usually present
narratives of loss; the decline of the nation-state, erosion of public services, co-option of feminism, deepening gendered and racialised inequalities.
• But women also play central roles in making up new ‘neoliberal’ political-economic configurations. This is an as yet poorly understood terrain that demands we think harder about the gendering of neoliberalism in general, and the processes of professionalisation in particular.
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Gendering Neoliberalism
• Neoliberalism now a ‘keyword’ in both politics and social sciences which captures the ‘more market’ tendencies of the last three decades.
• Usually seen as compatible with neo-colonial, authoritarian and despotic forms of rule.
• Neoliberalism is responsible for increasing im-miseration of much of the world and women, particularly poor, migrant and minority women, usually suffer the most
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Poststructuralist Political Economy
• Draws from political economy literatures on globalisation and governance, and feminist and poststructuralist accounts of discourse and subjectivity• New Spatial Imaginaries• Calculative Practices• Globalising Subjects
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Spatial Imaginaries
• Nation-state centred understandings of economy, state and society dominated academic and political life during much of last century.
• Underpinned governmental projects of both the ‘left’ and ‘right’.
• Today there is a new imaginary of global flows, networks, and mobilities.
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Call Centre Attraction Initiative
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New Zealand Fashion Industry
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Economic Development Strategies
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Central Role of ‘Intermediaries’
Pieter Stewart, Owner ofNew Zealand Fashion Week
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Calculative Practices
• Measurement, inscription and monitoring make objects and subjects visible in particular forms
• Seeing the rise of a range of techniques that encourage us to understand the world as globalising and act accordingly
• These globalising objects and subjects include not only nation-states, but also firms, public sector organisations, NGOs, community organisations, and citizens.
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Standards, league tables, location studies, demography…
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Multiple and Polysemic
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Globalisation as Governmentality
• A taken for granted context in which economic, political and social activities are understood to take place.
• Global flows, networks and mobilities are ‘irreal spaces’ (Rose 1999) both imagined and partially constituted by this new political rationality.
• This new spatial imaginary underpins governmental projects of both the ‘left’ and ‘right’.
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Neoliberal Subjects? Denise L’Estrange Corbett,Fashion designer, talking to the APEC small business group
‘Strategic Brokers’, Local Partnerships
Call Centre Training, 100% NZ owned and operated.
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Conclusions
• Once we embody accounts of neoliberalism we are forced to recognise that many of the actors involved processes of professionalisation are women.
• Not simply a feature of the small networked New Zealand economy and society.
• Both feminism and women are implicated in the processes of imagination and calculation that are giving rise to new political-economic configurations.