ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1

Introduction

Missing in action?

chapter 2|18 pages

Re-gendering governance in times of austerity

Dilemmas of feminist research, theory and politics

chapter 3|20 pages

Affective governmentality

A feminist perspective

chapter 4|19 pages

Mainlining the motherboard

Exploring gendered academic labour in the university

chapter 5|22 pages

Problematisation as performative practice

An analysis of research articles on gender and innovation

chapter 6|21 pages

Unsettling neoliberalism?

Governmentality, feminist analysis and problematisations of workers’ mental health

chapter 9|19 pages

Analysing power at play

(Re-)doing an analytics of the political in an era of governance

chapter 10|8 pages

Epilogue

A three-dimensional feminist post-structuralist analysis