On Power, Freedom, and Gender

Amigot, Patricia; Pujal, Margot

doi:10.1177/0959354309341925

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“…Since power is understood to be an ongoing, relational element of human subjectivation, so too can freedom be perceived as an ongoing process inextricably linked to our everyday existence (Amigot & Pujal, 2009;Crane et al, 2008;Foucault, 1987). This is very different from a liberal approach to freedom, which we are more familiar with, where human beings require 'freeing from' one state of being in preference for another (Berlin, 1969).…”

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Empowering Women through Corporate Social Responsibility: A Feminist Foucauldian Critique

McCarthy

2023

Issues in Business Ethics

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been hailed as a new means to address gender inequality, particularly by facilitating women's empowerment. Women are frequently and forcefully positioned as saviours of economies or communities and proponents of sustainability. Using vignettes drawn from a CSR women's empowerment programme in Ghana, this conceptual article explores unexpected programme outcomes enacted by women managers and farmers. It is argued that a feminist Foucauldian reading of power as relational and productive can help explain this since those involved are engaged in ongoing processes of resistance and self-making. This raises questions about the assumptions made about women and what is it that such CSR programmes aim to empower them 'from' or 'to.' Empowerment, when viewed as an ethic of care for the self, is better understood as a self-directed process, rather than a corporate-led strategy. This has implications for how we can imagine the achievement of gender equality through CSR.

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Section: How Is Women's Empowerment In Csr 'Empowering'?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowering Women through Corporate Social Responsibility: A Feminist Foucauldian Critique

McCarthy

2023

Issues in Business Ethics

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“…It has become insuperable to our experienced identities-even those who work hard to be free of gender define themselves in opposition to it. This makes gender a critical field for the simultaneous processes of biopolitical problematization and normalization (Amigot and Pujal 2009). Gender perspectives have been at the forefront in thinking about the role of body politics in Russian regime legitimation.…”

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The Reproduction of Nationalism and the Nationalism of Reproduction: Putin’s Biopolitics of Defending Tradition, 2012–2021

Naterstad

2023

Nationalities Papers

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After Putin’s return to the Russian presidency in 2012, a further turn toward authoritarianism has been coupled with attacks on Western secularism, multiculturalism, and alleged moral decay. At home, the Kremlin has been increasingly preoccupied with defining and addressing problems related to citizens’ bodies, linking “traditional values” to national security. Central to this discourse are issues relating to reproductive norms. This analysis uses the Foucauldian concept of “biopower” as an epistemic point of departure in an attempt to understand the central role of reproduction in the Kremlin’s identity project. Administering the bodies of a population simultaneously produces and delimits that population according to bodily criteria. Thus, this “bodily turn” in Russian nation-building may be understood as “bionationalism,” a depoliticizing style of nationalism that relies on biopolitical techniques. The analysis explicates the mechanisms of this style of nationalism: how and why this discourse functions, legitimates problematic practices, excludes “abnormals,” expands the state into the everyday lives of citizens, and marginalizes and even securitizes alternative notions of national identity. Putin’s bionationalism may be read as an existential nationalism and thereby as producing a specific mobilizational context.

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“…Health institutions are constituted through the relations of power operating in their particular contexts (Foucault, 2002;Skeggs, 1997). Through dominant discourses, such as sameness and clinical neutrality, power normalises certain actions and certain health practices as acceptable and guides people to act accordingly (Amigot & Pujal, 2009;Foucault, 1991Foucault, , 1995Foucault & Gordon, 1980). However, normalised health service practices ignore individual needs (Foucault, 2004;Levesque & Li, 2014) and can negatively shape patient experience (Foucault & Gordon, 1980;Scott, 1991).…”

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Improving inclusion in rural health services for marginalised community members: Developing a process for change

Malatzky¹,

Mitchell²,

Bourke

2018

JOSI

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Australia’s mainstream health services located in rural contexts are mandated to provide health care to the entire local population. However, complex power relations embedded and reflected within the cultures of mainstream generalist health services are excluding the most marginalised residents from health care. This paper argues that unless inclusion in rural, generalist mainstream health services is improved, the health experiences of these residents will not substantially change and Australia will continue to report significant health differentials within its population. The concept of culturally inclusive health care is difficult for Australian mainstream generalist health practitioners to engage with because there is limited understanding of what culture is and how it operates within diverse communities. This makes it challenging for many in mainstream health institutions to begin deconstructing how it is that exclusion occurs. Frequently, ‘culture’ is assigned to ‘Others’, and there is little recognition that all people, including White, mainstream Australians, are cultural beings, and that health disciplines, services and systems have particular cultures that make assumptions about how to be in the world. Consequently, current approaches to the provision of culturally inclusive health care are not shifting the power relations that (re)produce exclusion. In this paper, we outline a new interdisciplinary methodology that operationalises Foucault’s concepts of power, resistance and discourse within a Participatory Action Research (PAR) design and utilises Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes to respond to these power relations and provide health institutions with a process to improve their inclusivity, specifically for Australia’s most marginalised residents. It is suggested that employing this new methodology will promote a different way of thinking and acting in health institutions, producing a deconstructed process for health services to adapt to improve their inclusivity.

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On Power, Freedom, and Gender

Cited by 20 publications

References 8 publications

Empowering Women through Corporate Social Responsibility: A Feminist Foucauldian Critique

Empowering Women through Corporate Social Responsibility: A Feminist Foucauldian Critique

The Reproduction of Nationalism and the Nationalism of Reproduction: Putin’s Biopolitics of Defending Tradition, 2012–2021

Improving inclusion in rural health services for marginalised community members: Developing a process for change

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