The Power of the Vulnerable Body

Vaittinen, Tiina

doi:10.1080/14616742.2013.876301

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“…No amount of prevention will stop people from needing care altogether. The focus on prevention and maintenance of functional capacity serves to, perhaps inadvertently, shift the focus away again from the most vulnerable people, making them discursively almost disappear from the policy agenda (compare Vaittinen, 2015). Furthermore, care research has demonstrated that the increased governance, regulation and management of care does not necessarily guarantee better, let alone more equal care; it can, in fact, even lower the quality of care (Hoppania and Vaittinen, 2015).…”

Section: Neoliberalisation In the Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicisation, engagement, depoliticisation – the neoliberal politics of care

Hoppania

2018

Critical Social Policy

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Many European nations share a political challenge: the ageing population and recessionary economics lead to dwindling resources for welfare services, while scandals and reports of unacceptable deficits in particular in care services for older people arise. In Finland this situation was responded to with a novel Care Act for Older People that was passed in 2013. This paper tracks the legislative process of the law and demonstrates how this issue of fundamental values and resources was turned into a question of apolitical governance and expert management, resulting in a dubious, status-quo supporting law. It presents a case of how the subsumption of homo politicus in the neoliberal era in practice can happen, and how depoliticisation can function in a context with which neoliberalism is not often associated;namely care policy of a traditionally social-democratic Nordic welfare state.

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Section: Neoliberalisation In the Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicisation, engagement, depoliticisation – the neoliberal politics of care

Hoppania

2018

Critical Social Policy

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“…They must leave the last place Martin could still truly feel connected, as his enabled connectivity contributes to stigma around AD. The passage from the opera enacts AD a creative force, demonstrating the power of a ‘needy body’ to ‘open up for political relatedness’ (Vaittinen, 2015: 113). This opening-up ‘breaks down’ the illusion of ‘normal able-bodied’ embodiment, revealing its co-constitutive political relatedness with the ‘disabled’ body in need (Barad, 2007: 158).…”

Section: Ad Enacted As Creative Force Kiss and Touch: Martin And Barmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiple ontologies of Alzheimer’s disease in Still Alice and A Song for Martin: A feminist visual studies of technoscience perspective

Lukić¹

2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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The prevalence of dementia is increasing worldwide but there is still no hope of a cure. Huge resources go into biomedical research, whose reductive ‘enactment’ has severe consequences for women, who are predominantly affected by dementia. To challenge such tragic enactment, this article considers ‘multiple ontologies’ of the most common type of dementia – Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – in the popular fictional film adaptations Still Alice (2014) and A Song for Martin ( En sång för Martin, 2000). Using a post-humanist account of feminist visual studies of technoscience, this comparative film analysis reveals how gender supersedes AD oversteering the hierarchical dualisms between health and pathology, human and nonhuman, and biomedical and artistic modes of knowing about Alzheimer’s. The author argues that these films stress the potential of the arts (dramatic arts and music), as a multisensorial post-humanist embodied state of becoming with AD, to challenge hierarchical dualisms and innovatively contribute to dementia care.

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“…As a response, feminist scholars theorising care and dependency (Dodds, 2013;Mackenzie, 2014;Mackenzie et al, 2013;Vaittinen, 2015) or sexual violence (Bergoffen, 2011;Gilson, 2014;Honkatukia, 2011) have sought to redefine vulnerability in order to dissociate it from victimhood, passivity, and lack of agency. At the same time, feminists have theorised modes of the relational, embodied subject and redefined autonomy as a critique of liberal individualism and modes of rationality (Anderson, 2003;Hutchings, 2013;Mackenzie, 2014;Nussbaum, 1986;Shildrick, 2002).…”

Section: Vulnerability In Feminist Queer and Anti-racist Theorisingmentioning

confidence: 99%