thomasrochow.bsky.social
Research Associate @uofgpolicy.bsky.social PhD @uofglasgow.bsky.social Interested in youth transitions | social policy | qualitative methods | and FPL
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Some of the more marginalised young people in the UK are optimistic about their futures and individualise pathways to realise their goals, primarily stable employment. Read open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Cannae beat them
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Hey Annie, I am a research associate on new Robertson Trust-funded project on poverty and policy siloes. More information soon...
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Hi Ben, really helpful thanks. Could I be added please?
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6/6 These concepts underpin my recent post in The Social Policy Blog:
Internalised Individualism: Young Jobseekers and the Psychologization of Labour Market Participation
socialpolicyblog.com/2024/10/16/i...
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5/6 Reading:
Han (2017) Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
www.versobooks.com/products/226...
Alphin and Debrix (2023) Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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4/6 Our time should be consumed by self-optimization because we believe the individual psyche to be the omnipotent power. We continually look inward to maximise capacity and proficiency as constrained neoliberal subjects under the guise of freedom and exponential economic and social reward.
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3/6 Bound by the moral obligation of self-actualisation we no longer require the disciplinary regimes Foucault talked of, we are now ever more efficient through self-surveillance. The 'achievement society' teaches that anything other than the persistent growth of the self-brand is worthless.
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2/6 Han's (2017) concept of Psychopolitics deftly explores how the burgeoning self-improvement society, with endless psychological management workshops and motivational seminars, function as self-exploitation tools to keep us ever more productive and self-sufficient.
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In it I problematize the pervasive cultural and political framing that individual behavioural management is the key to tackling social inequalities and how these ideologies shape young people's sense of self