Working the spaces of power : activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour /
Janet Newman.
- xii, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: research as mapmaking -- Talking politics -- Perverse alignments: women's activism and the governmentalization of community -- Close encounters: feminism, policy and the remaking of governance -- Modernizing moments: work, organizations and the entrepreneurial self -- Critical engagements: knowledge-work as political practice -- Border work: generating spaces of power -- Activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour -- Postscript: speaking to the present -- Appendix: conducting the research-ethics, methods and modes of analysis.
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Women--Political activity. Women in public life--Interviews Political planning Neoliberalism