3. Privatizing Pension Risk: Gender, Law, and Financial Markets

Opening the Door to Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Self–Regulation in Ontario

“…Furthermore, in this second account, risk as a technique for the governance of populations is congruent with the political project of neo-liberalism, which emphasizes individual responsibility, entrepreneurship, the preeminence of markets, and the withdrawal of the state from the provision of various forms of social insurance and various interventions in the economy (Condon 2002;Ericson & Haggerty 1997;McCluskey 2002). Making this connection between risk governance and neoliberalism also allows us to see that in actual examples of governance through risk, what is at issue is the material distribution of risks in particular ways (Condon 2002;McCluskey 2002).…”

Technologies of Risk? Regulating Online Investing in Canada*

“…From this vantage point, attention might be paid to what Rose calls “an industry of risk,” for whom the characterizing and subsequent assauging of fears for the future is a profit opportunity (Rose 1999). Furthermore, in this second account, risk as a technique for the governance of populations is congruent with the political project of neo‐liberalism, which emphasizes individual responsibility, entrepreneurship, the pre‐eminence of markets, and the withdrawal of the state from the provision of various forms of social insurance and various interventions in the economy (Condon 2002; Ericson & Haggerty 1997; McCluskey 2002). Making this connection between risk governance and neo‐liberalism also allows us to see that in actual examples of governance through risk, what is at issue is the material distribution of risks in particular ways (Condon 2002; McCluskey 2002).…”

“…Given the claims of the metanarrative of governance through risk, it is also worth addressing more precisely the connection, if any, between governance through risk and decentered regulation. To what extent have regulatory forms in specific fields empirically begun to shift to a discourse of governance through risk (Condon 2002)? Relatedly, does the phenomenon of decentered regulation consequent on the dismantling of traditional state mechanisms for regulating in fact presage a change in the ends as well as the means of regulating?…”

Accessing pension resources: the right to equality inside and out of the labour market

“…Pensions, therefore, help elucidate a set of perennially conflictual principles of capitalism.' Put another way, pensions highlight the dynamic relationship between individual and collective approaches to risk in capitalist welfare states (Condon, 2002). But, like the welfare regimes of which they are a part, pensions are not, in this sense, neutral; they reflect, re-inscribe and sometimes challenge social categories of difference, the gender division of labour, stratification and labour market segmentation (O'Connor, 1993;Orloff, 1993aOrloff, , 1993bDaly and Rake, 2003;Williams, 1995).…”