Description
This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple scales, and in relation to several different arenas of policy and practice. The contributors address shortcomings in the mainstream literature on governance within the discipline of political science.
The volume as a whole is marked by geographical and topical diversity. However, what the individual chapters have in common is that each considers whether and how gender, racialized identity, and/or other axes of marginalization are visible within the conceptualizations and/or practices of governance under discussion.
Drawing together insights and conceptual tools from both feminist and post-structuralist frameworks in analysing governance practices, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and graduates who engage with feminist and/or post-structural analysis of policy and governance. It will also be of use to critical policy scholars in anthropology, geography, sociology, and women’s studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Missing in action?
Christine Hudson, Malin Rönnblom and Katherine Teghtsoonian
2. Re-gendering governance in times of austerity: dilemmas of feminist research, theory and politics
Janet Newman
3. Affective governmentality – A feminist perspective
Birgit Sauer and Otto Penz
4. Mainlining the motherboard: The paradox of gendered academic labour in the university
Kirsten Locke and Susan Wright
5. Problematization as performative practice: An analysis of articles on gender and innovation
Line Säll
6. Unsettling neoliberlism? Governmentality, feminist analysis and problematizations of workers’ mental health
Katherine Teghtsoonian
7. Complaints, gender and power in governing education
Sara Carlbaum
8. Situating agency in the context of the post-political city?
Christine Hudson
9. Analysing power at play: (re-)doing an analytics of the political in an era of governance
Malin Rönnblom
10. Epilogue: A three-dimensional feminist post-structuralist analysis
Christine Hudson and Malin Rönnblom
