Neoliberal governmentality and the respatialisation of childcare in Ireland

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume43
dc.contributor.authorGallagher AM
dc.date.available2012-05-01
dc.date.issued2012-05-01
dc.description.abstractWhile geographers have contributed greatly to knowledge of the unequal effects of childcare delivery for parents and children as service users, the changing form this provision has taken over the last 10. years has received much less attention. Drawing on the emergence of a formalised childcare sector in Ireland since the late 90s, this paper explores the considerable political work which has taken place to prioritise centre-based care services over an established informal childminding sector. Rather than view this change as the outcome of a capitalist logic which scripts the inevitable shift towards larger, more rationalised services under processes of neoliberalisation, this paper calls for a closer examination of the way in which childcare is being respatalised through policy. Justified through a discourse of 'sustainability', governmental intervention in Ireland has sought to produce a new marketised childcare infrastructure which will operate without continued state support. The emerging infrastructure has been premised on the creation of centre-based facilities, through which forms of neoliberal governance have been introduced into the sector. It is suggested that the prioritisation of centre-based care over existing informal provision has served to introduce significant financial vulnerabilities to the sector at a time of economic uncertainty. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
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dc.format.extent464 - 471
dc.identifier.citationGeoforum, 2012, 43 (3), pp. 464 - 471
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.10.004
dc.identifier.elements-id166701
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0016-7185
dc.publisherPERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
dc.subject.anzsrc16 Studies in Human Society
dc.titleNeoliberal governmentality and the respatialisation of childcare in Ireland
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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