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THE ETHOS OF NORDIC WELFAREThe project focuses on the birth and development of practices of government, and the related modes of reasoning and rationalities in the Finnish and Swedish welfare societies from the perspective of the history of governmentality. The project consists of the following lines of study: • Ilpo Helén analyses sexual and mental health policy in Finland and Sweden in the 1940s – 1990s and focuses on the implementation of psychotherapeutic approach to the relation to the self into the ethos of welfare • Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen studies the history of economic subjectivity in the Nordic countries during the latter part of the 20th century; the concrete subject of research is the promotion of private insurance and the economic and societal discussions in which this is embedded. • Mikko Jauho focuses on the history of public health and health policy, and the formation of the modern ethos of individual health care in Finland in the 20th century. • Mianna Meskus studies the formation of individual choice and risk reasoning in maternity care by focusing on the relationship between eugenics and the new genetics. • The subject of Katja Yesilova’s study is the problematisation of the modern nuclear family in general and the Finnish family education from the 1960s to the present day in particular. In all five studies, the welfare state and ways of governing welfare societies are analysed in connection to concrete problems: through what kind of developments have matters of sexuality, health, procreation, intimate relationship and consumption become questions of welfare and objects of government? The central questions of research concern the formation of social citizenship and the individualisation of life-practices. How have the ways of governing society and the development of social citizenship been historically entwined with the individualisation of life-practices in the 'Nordic model'? Director of the project is Senior Fellow (docent) Ilpo Helén. Research proposal [PDF] Publications Prevention seminar, 2 - 3 Oct 2004 |
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