Feministiska utopier eller neoliberala visioner i Finlands försök med basinkomst?
(2017) GNVK02 20171Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- In this paper, I study the legal works behind the two-year experiment with basic income in
Finland from the first of January 2017. With a neo-Marxists feministic theoretical framework
based on the work of the political scientist Kathi Weeks and the concept postwork politics; I
aim to see if the experiment with basic income in Finland could be a part of a larger feministic
project. By using the new class term the precariat by Guy Standing, I seek to see if basic
income in Finland could be an answer to the growing of the class. Through qualitative content
analysis and critical discourse analysis, I study the arguments and discourses in the documents
that led to the law upon which the basic income experiment in Finland relies. Through... (More) - In this paper, I study the legal works behind the two-year experiment with basic income in
Finland from the first of January 2017. With a neo-Marxists feministic theoretical framework
based on the work of the political scientist Kathi Weeks and the concept postwork politics; I
aim to see if the experiment with basic income in Finland could be a part of a larger feministic
project. By using the new class term the precariat by Guy Standing, I seek to see if basic
income in Finland could be an answer to the growing of the class. Through qualitative content
analysis and critical discourse analysis, I study the arguments and discourses in the documents
that led to the law upon which the basic income experiment in Finland relies. Through the
analysis, I discover how the arguments in the legal documents are a part of a neoliberal
political regime. The discourses found in the texts promotes an increasing in the employment
for low-payed and unsecure work of the already marginalized group: the precariat. The basic
income experiment in Finland is not representing the feministic utopian idea of basic income
as a part of the feministic postwork politics. (Less)
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- author
- Simonsson, Ebba LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- GNVK02 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- precariat, postwork politics, labour, basic income, Finland, basinkomst, arbete, prekariatet
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8912292
- date added to LUP
- 2017-06-15 11:33:09
- date last changed
- 2017-06-15 11:33:09
@misc{8912292, abstract = {{In this paper, I study the legal works behind the two-year experiment with basic income in Finland from the first of January 2017. With a neo-Marxists feministic theoretical framework based on the work of the political scientist Kathi Weeks and the concept postwork politics; I aim to see if the experiment with basic income in Finland could be a part of a larger feministic project. By using the new class term the precariat by Guy Standing, I seek to see if basic income in Finland could be an answer to the growing of the class. Through qualitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis, I study the arguments and discourses in the documents that led to the law upon which the basic income experiment in Finland relies. Through the analysis, I discover how the arguments in the legal documents are a part of a neoliberal political regime. The discourses found in the texts promotes an increasing in the employment for low-payed and unsecure work of the already marginalized group: the precariat. The basic income experiment in Finland is not representing the feministic utopian idea of basic income as a part of the feministic postwork politics.}}, author = {{Simonsson, Ebba}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Feministiska utopier eller neoliberala visioner i Finlands försök med basinkomst?}}, year = {{2017}}, }