Disenfranchisement: An Essay on the Infrastructure of Critique - Couverture souple

Willig, Rasmus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3034308469 ISBN 13 : 9783034308465

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012

Synopsis

Why is it important to take a critical approach to your work ? And what are the consequences if your critical voice is suppressed ? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Disenfranchisement, which focuses on the deteriorating possibilities for a group of kindergarten staff members to utter criticism and influence their work places. The central point of the book is that the inability to criticise is closely related to a more general process of disenfranchisement that is corroding the lives of staff both professionally and privately. Through interviews with kindergarten workers, the book reveals how these processes have resulted in a widespread sense of powerlessness and paralysis. This book is for anyone who seeks a conceptualisation of the feeling that it has become more worthwhile to keep silent than to speak your mind – a widespread impression in a time when several groups in the public sector, including nurses, teachers, kindergarten workers and police officers, report increased political control and a lack of tolerance of critical voices in a neoliberal era. The book focuses on the informal norms that determine our ability to criticise, rather than on the formal, statutory rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rasmus Willig is an associate professor at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is a former chairman of the Danish Sociological Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3034308469
• ISBN 13: 9783034308465
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
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• Personne responsable: non disponible