A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Changing Feminist Politics in a ‘Strategic State’




AuthorsElomäki Anna, Kantola Johanna, Koivunen Anu, Ylöstalo Hanna

EditorsKeskinen Suvi, Stoltz Pauline, Mulinari Diana

Publishing placeCham

Publication year2021

Book title Feminisms in the Nordic Region - Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique

Series titleGender and Politics

First page 67

Last page88

ISBN978-3-030-53463-9

eISBN978-3-030-53464-6

ISSN2662-5814

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53464-6_4

Web address https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-53464-6_4

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/51849290


Abstract

The chapter analyses the shifting relationship between feminist politics and the state in Finland in the 2010s, with the aim of providing new insights into this relationship in a changing political context. The chapter focuses on a particular form of neoliberal and managerial governance that aims to make government decision-making processes more strategic by narrowing down policy objectives and aligning them explicitly with fiscal objectives that have moved the Finnish welfare state in the direction of becoming a strategic state, in which economic imperatives overrule other political concerns. The chapter asks: (i) How do different feminist actors operate in the strategic state? and (ii) How are gender issues politicised in the strategic state by different feminist actors? The chapter approaches these questions through three different conceptualisations of feminist politics in Finland, namely, the idea of the velvet triangle, governance feminism, and intersectional feminism. The chapter shows how the network model of the velvet triangle is challenged in the context of the strategic state, while both governance feminism and intersectional feminism are strengthened.


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