Governing through intimacy: Explaining care policies through ‘sharing a meaning’

Durnová, Anna

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“…The second part offers an overview of some recent end-of-life cases that dominated the media in the United States and in Europe, in order to show how autonomy and dignity have been used by all actors as arguments to advocate for a particular end-of-life decision, be it for or against self-chosen death. The third part then reveals the role of intimacy in the presentation of both these values based on the results of analysis of media coverage, expert interviews and relevant policy documents done in earlier studies on end-of-life debates (Durnová 2011a(Durnová , 2011b(Durnová and 2013. The cited end-of-life examples are suggestive rather than comprehensive, and they demonstrate the plausibility of the theoretical reflection elaborated herein.…”

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Reading the End-of-life Controversy through Political Lenses: Public Power and Intimacy

Durnová

2016

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This article presents end-of-life controversies as a site through which we can disclose the operation of public power. Reviewing some recent political negotiations on end-of-life decisions (such as withdrawal treatment or the legalization of euthanasia), the article investigates the particular role that an intimate experience with the end of life plays in those political negotiations. As the collective acknowledgement of the individual emotional experience with body and mind during the end of life, intimacy enables us to conceive the nature of public power in the mutual engagement between the collective and the individual. Since this has an impact on the dynamic of political negotiations, the article concludes by suggesting that Western liberal democracies are facing not a disappearance of politics but a transformation of public power through intimacy.

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Reading the End-of-life Controversy through Political Lenses: Public Power and Intimacy

Durnová

2016

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“…In all our empirical data, we define emotion as a communicated experience that is transmitted in each piece of data by the respondents (Durnová, 2013). In a nutshell, we frame emotions as the tension between the individual dimension of expression (verbal or non-verbal) and its collective interpretation (affirmation, opposition, support, etc.)…”

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“…6 If the aforementioned interpretive approaches imply openness towards the role of practice and discourse as elements identifying the way policy designs are formulated (see Fischer and Gottweis, 2012; Hajer, 2005; Hajer and Wagenaar, 2003; Howarth, 2010; Lejano, 2012) then we can mediate between them and the recent work on emotions in social policies. This means to open the investigation towards how the presence of emotions – that are unstable, contradictory, uneasy to express – affects policy practices (see also Durnová, 2013, 2015). Emotions are both the conceptual and analytical pathways to understand the role of power and meaning in policy designs.…”

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Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions: The case of Czech single mothers

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Hejzlarová

2017

Public Policy and Administration

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Abstract:In public policy scholarship on policy design, emotions are still treated as opposed to goals, and their presence is assumed to signal that things have gone wrong. We argue, however, that understanding how and for whom emotions matter is vital to the dynamics of policy designs because emotions are central to the capacity-building of policy intermediaries and, with that, to the success of public policies. We examine the case of Czech single mothers in their role as intermediaries in "alimony policy". Our interpretive survey provided single mothers an opportunity to express the way they experience the policy emotionally. The analysis reveals that the policy goal of the child's well-being is produced at the cost of the mother's emotional tensions and that policy designs defuse these emotional tensions, implicitly. These contradictory emotions expressed by mothers show us a gateway to problematizing policy designs in a novel way, which reconsiders construing policy design as a technical, solution-oriented enterprise to one in which emotional tensions intervene in policy design and are essential for succeeding.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/PPA Public Policy and Administration In public policy scholarship on policy design, emotions are still treated as opposed to goals, and their presence is assumed to signal that things have gone wrong. We argue, however, that understanding how and for whom emotions matter is vital to the dynamics of policy designs because emotions are central to the capacity-building of policy intermediaries and, with that, to the success of public policies. We examine the case of Czech single mothers in their role as intermediaries in "alimony policy". Our interpretive survey provided single mothers an opportunity to express the way they experience the policy emotionally. The analysis reveals that the policy goal of the child's well-being is produced at the cost of the mother's emotional tensions and that policy designs defuse these emotional tensions, implicitly. These contradictory emotions expressed by mothers show us a gateway to problematizing policy designs in a novel way, which reconsiders construing policy design as a technical, solution-oriented enterprise to one in which emotional tensions intervene in policy design and are essential for succeeding.

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“…For example, when the SL closes his fist and places it on the table in line 06 (Image 3:1), the SSIA officer slightly changes the direction of her enquiry from what could be described as a direct attack on the SL to questions regarding the absent employer, whom both the SL and the SSIA officer blame for improper behavior. Durnová (2013) argues that intimacy is a useful perspective that allows one to observe the ways in which emotional experiences become important in creating shared meanings and establishing relations among various actors. Crucially, intimacy rests on a form of emotional validation by a given collective, thus privileging the emotional experience over other ways of relating to others.…”

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Emotion ability - practices of affective citizenship in the work rehabilitation process

Wilińska

Bülow

2018

Critical Policy Studies

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This article introduces the concept of emotion ability to illuminate the process whereby institutional meetings become an arena for testing, evoking, and regulating emotions that are deemed necessary to meet institutional goals. It focuses on the relationships and practices that are collaboratively constructed by welfare workers and clients when they interact within the context of institutional meetings. Based on an interactional analysis of a multi-party meeting, this article demonstrates the ways in which clients' ability to read, interpret, and follow specific feeling rules becomes the focal point of attention. Using video recordings, we illustrate that this process is highly collaborative, and it involves both language and body. The ability to act in accordance with the expected and required 'right feelings' emergent in the institutional encounter is, thus, a result of highly interactive processes. We discuss the concept of emotion ability as a concrete micro-level mechanism through, which practices of affective citizenship are realized in the context of institutional interactions.

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Governing through intimacy: Explaining care policies through ‘sharing a meaning’

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Reading the End-of-life Controversy through Political Lenses: Public Power and Intimacy

Reading the End-of-life Controversy through Political Lenses: Public Power and Intimacy

Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions: The case of Czech single mothers

Emotion ability - practices of affective citizenship in the work rehabilitation process

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