Anställningsbarhet i kris?
(2021) STVK02 20202Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This essay explores the discourse on youth-unemployment post the covid-19-pandemic labour market crisis in the EU from a post-structural theoretical perspective. Combining a Foucauldian governmentality-approach with Carol Bacchi’s methodological framework “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” this essay identifies and analyses the problematisations of unemployability among European youth in recent policy. Further, it investigates the ways in which citizens are governed through a discourse about empowerment and active citizenship. The study was conducted on the empirical material of the European Commission’s recommendation on a reinforced youth guarantee. The analysis finds that youth-unemployment is made governable in this policy through... (More)
- This essay explores the discourse on youth-unemployment post the covid-19-pandemic labour market crisis in the EU from a post-structural theoretical perspective. Combining a Foucauldian governmentality-approach with Carol Bacchi’s methodological framework “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” this essay identifies and analyses the problematisations of unemployability among European youth in recent policy. Further, it investigates the ways in which citizens are governed through a discourse about empowerment and active citizenship. The study was conducted on the empirical material of the European Commission’s recommendation on a reinforced youth guarantee. The analysis finds that youth-unemployment is made governable in this policy through problematisations of inactivity and unemployability. The objective of the activation-policy is to shape active and employable citizens, flexible to the demands of the ever changing labour market. Further, the analysis shows patterns of neoliberal governmentality and the formation of neoliberal subjects in the material, articulated by a discourse on youth as human capital to be invested in. (Less)
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- author
- Liljeröd, Elvira LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20202
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Governmentality, WPR, aktivering, anställningsbarhet, EU
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9033782
- date added to LUP
- 2021-05-25 12:42:42
- date last changed
- 2021-05-25 12:42:42
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