Mobilizing critical feminist engagement with New Public Management

Mobilizing critical feminist engagement with New Public Management

This thesis mobilizes a feminist critique to examine the ways in which New Public Management (NPM) represents a gendered discourse. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, NPM is mapped as a discursive field in order to tease out its dominant and subordinate discourses. The tensions between the domina...

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Main Author: Weeden, Sara Ashleigh
Other Authors: Howard, Cosmo
Language:English
en
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Gender
Post-structuralism
Critique
Institutional Level Analysis
Public Administration
Discursive Field
Foucault
Discourse Analysis
Public Management Theory
Public Management Practice
Public Managers
Subjectivities
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Science::Public administration
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3152
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Summary:This thesis mobilizes a feminist critique to examine the ways in which New Public Management (NPM) represents a gendered discourse. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, NPM is mapped as a discursive field in order to tease out its dominant and subordinate discourses. The tensions between the dominant discourses and between the dominant and subordinate discourses are examined. The discursive themes of NPM are then engaged using a feminist post-structuralist framework in order to develop a feminist critique. From this critique, it is argued that NPM discourses reinscribe dominant masculinity as well as challenge the Weberian model of bureaucracy by reconstructing a gendered division of labour that takes place entirely within the public sphere.

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