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Emancipation of sexual and gender minority juveniles in residential youth care: A paradoxical example of governmentally
Walderveen, D.M.G. van (2022) Emancipation of sexual and gender minority juveniles in residential youth care: A paradoxical example of governmentally.
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| Abstract: | How do sexual and gender minority juveniles in Dutch residential youth care experience emancipation? This question will be answered from a perspective based on the philosophical work of Michel Foucault. An operationalization of Foucault’s foyer of experience is used in semi-structured interviews with 11 juveniles. Due to the foyer of experience, participants were invited to discuss the forms of knowledge that make possible veridiction, the norms that make possible governmentality, and the techniques that make possible the subjectification of the self, in relation to emancipation. Emancipation is considered both from a modern- as postmodern perspective to allow for the introduction of a novel theoretical phenomenon: the government-emancipation paradox, implying that emancipation enables governmentality because liberation makes people vulnerably for domination. Findings of this thesis indicate that juveniles in residential youth care initially use modern discourse to discuss their emancipatory objectives. While independence is aspired at first sight, data reveals it is inclusivity and strong bonds that are actually central to emancipation and juveniles’ objectives. Therefore, residential youth care serves the purpose of preparing juveniles for becoming a critical and valuable agent in society, due to which it is a telling example of both emancipation and governmentality. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 08 philosophy, 88 social and public administration |
| Programme: | Public Administration MSc (60020) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93490 |
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