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Changing Feminist Politics in a ‘Strategic State’




TekijätElomäki Anna, Kantola Johanna, Koivunen Anu, Ylöstalo Hanna

ToimittajaKeskinen Suvi, Stoltz Pauline, Mulinari Diana

KustannuspaikkaCham

Julkaisuvuosi2021

Kokoomateoksen nimiFeminisms in the Nordic Region - Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique

Sarjan nimiGender and Politics

Aloitussivu67

Lopetussivu88

ISBN978-3-030-53463-9

eISBN978-3-030-53464-6

ISSN2662-5814

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

Verkko-osoitehttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-53464-6_4

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/51849290


Tiivistelmä

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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