{"product_id":"disenfranchisement-an-essay-on-the-infrastructure-of-critique-9783034308465","title":"Disenfranchisement: An Essay on the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy is it important to take a critical approach to your work? And what are the consequences if your critical voice is suppressed? These are the questions that lie at the heart of \u003ci\u003eDisenfranchisement\u003c\/i\u003e, which focuses on the deteriorating possibilities for a group of kindergarten staff members to utter criticism and influence their work places.\u003cbr\u003e The central point of the book is that the inability to criticise is closely related to a more general process of disenfranchisement that is corroding the lives of staff both professionally and privately. Through interviews with kindergarten workers, the book reveals how these processes have resulted in a widespread sense of powerlessness and paralysis.\u003cbr\u003e This book is for anyone who seeks a conceptualisation of the feeling that it has become more worthwhile to keep silent than to speak your mind – a widespread impression in a time when several groups in the public sector, including nurses, teachers, kindergarten workers and police officers, report increased political control and a lack of tolerance of critical voices in a neoliberal era. The book focuses on the informal norms that determine our ability to criticise, rather than on the formal, statutory rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Many people feel unable to criticize without fear of reprisals – The profession of kindergarten teacher – Normative processes of disenfranchisement – Organizational processes of disenfranchisement – Safety valves for critique – The unenfranchised children – Critique is concealed and disenfranchisement is reproduced – Towards a theory of the infrastructure of critique – Afterword: ‘Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage’.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043618554199,"sku":"9783034308465","price":36.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034308465.jpg?v=1750958898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disenfranchisement-an-essay-on-the-infrastructure-of-critique-9783034308465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}