Postadresse
Høgskolen i Østfold
Postboks 700
NO-1757
Halden
Norway
EMER Network explore everyday resistance in the welfare state.
Welfare services are intended to provide care, aid, and support to individuals in need. However, and in spite of well-meaning intentions, support is sometimes experienced as patronizing, misplaced, or an abuse of power. In the current era of New Public Management (NPM), service users are seen as customers and the demands for measurable outcomes rise. Now more than ever, we need to understand the problematic sides of power relations that operate within the welfare state. That's why the EMER network – Explorations of Marginalised people’s Everyday Resistance – was started.
EMER NETWORK – WORKSHOP 1 IN KARLSTAD 2022
The purpose of the workshop is to explore how everyday resistances in the Nordic welfare state can be investigated using institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry.