The caring entrepreneur? Childcare policy and private provision in an enterprising age

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dc.citation.issue5
dc.citation.volume46
dc.contributor.authorGallagher AM
dc.date.available2014-01-01
dc.date.issued2014-06-01
dc.description.abstractChildcare has become a recent focus of government intervention. Concerns have been raised about the soaring costs for parents, patchy provision, and the often small and unprofitable nature of the services themselves. This paper will explore how the problem of sustainability in the childcare sector is being addressed through a neoliberal development rationale. Focusing on the Irish childcare sector and the childcare funding programme introduced in 2006, I will illustrate how a particular entrepreneurial subjectivity has been mobilised to remedy the perceived problems of private sector childcare. I refer to this subjectivity as the ‘caring entrepreneur’. After I outline the contours of this subjectivity, the final section of the paper will examine how it is being realised within a rural childcare market, in the process offering a more situated account of what ‘sustainability’ means in place.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent1108 - 1123 (16)
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dc.identifier.citationENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A, 2014, 46 (5), pp. 1108 - 1123 (16)
dc.identifier.doi10.1068/a46235
dc.identifier.elements-id212298
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0308-518X
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherPION LTD
dc.relation.isPartOfENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A
dc.rightsPION LTD
dc.subjectScience & Technology
dc.subjectSocial Sciences
dc.subjectLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subjectEnvironmental Studies
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences & Ecology
dc.subjectchildcare
dc.subjectsubjectivity
dc.subjectentrepreneurship
dc.subjectplace
dc.subjectIreland
dc.subjectWOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS
dc.subjectWELFARE-REFORM
dc.subjectWORK
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectGOVERNMENTALITY
dc.subjectNEOLIBERALISM
dc.subjectUK
dc.subjectPARTNERSHIPS
dc.subjectGEOGRAPHIES
dc.subjectPARENTS
dc.subject.anzsrc1205 Urban and Regional Planning
dc.subject.anzsrc1402 Applied Economics
dc.subject.anzsrc1604 Human Geography
dc.titleThe caring entrepreneur? Childcare policy and private provision in an enterprising age
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of People, Enviroment and Planning
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