Autonomous Elderly People, Nursing Cases and Self-Employed Workers in Need of Supervision: Subject Constructions in the Context of 24-Hour Care in Austria

The article examines the dispositif of 24-hour care in the context of socio-political activation. Based on a discourse analysis of websites of Austrian placement agencies, I show how care receivers and care workers are constructed as autonomous clients, passive nursing cases and self-employed workers in need of supervision and support. I demonstrate how the ambivalent subject constructions are related to competing dispositifs and how this reproduces social power relations.

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Autonomous Elderly People, Nursing Cases and Self-Employed Workers in Need of Supervision: Subject Constructions in the Context of 24-Hour Care in Austria

Veronika Prieler

Published Online: Jul 16, 2020

Page range: 259 - 280

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2020-0014

Keywords24-hour care, dispositif, subject construction, activation, discourse analysis

© 2020 Veronika Prieler, published by Sciendo

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Keywords
24-hour care, dispositif, subject construction, activation, discourse analysis