Neoliberalism and Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States
Hybrid event
The Nordic welfare states are often seen as caring states with generous, universal care services for pre-school, elderly, challenged and sick persons. Neoliberal governance has turned these caring states into postmodern, cold care regimes reframing care and silencing aspects of care. To understand this development, we need to elaborate a broader concept of a care crisis that can be applied beyond its original definition. A reconceptualisation that views a care crisis along two dimensions: a quantitative and a qualitative dimension, that of ‘good-enough’ care.

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Date: 30 January 2025, 16:00
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Speaker: Professor Hanne Marlene Dahl (Roskilde University)
Organising department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organisers: Dr Rosella Ciccia (University of Oxford), Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Part of: DSPI Hilary Term Seminar Series 2025: Perspectives on Care
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Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Faith Inch, Zoe Burns