Abstract Neo-liberalism can mean different things from perspectives. Social scientists tend to use the concept identify and critique trends of privatization, marketization, commodification enclosures, their associated slew exclusionary, dispossessive, regressive effects. Counterintuitively, governmentality analyses how practices collaboration, inclusion, participation, empowerment—practices som...

A longitudinal analysis (1984-2005) of media language in Norway is presented, demonstrating how the current globalized capitalist market ideology is now permeating this long-established Scandinavian welfare state. This ideological shift carries powerful implications for community psychology, as traditional welfare state values of equal services based on a universalistic principle are set aside,...

This essay briefly discusses neo-liberal approaches to the provision of social welfare, in synergy with reforms in public administration. It is the nuanced and dynamic interplay between these approaches that influences governance and business management activities of Indigenous community-controlled organisations within the Australian context. This paper draws on previous work identifying the ra...

Despite being generally viewed as homogenous, the four provinces that make up Atlantic Canada have quite different Early Childhood Education and Care systems. Through in-depth interviews of policy actors within the four Atlantic Canadian provinces completed in 2011, this article illustrates that Prince Edward Island had an ‘inclusive liberal’ childcare system. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick mixe...

Over the last 30 years, neo-liberalism has permeated early childhood, as all other aspects of life. Having introduced what is, article looks at some its effects on childhood education and care, including markets, imaginaries governance. It argues that though is a powerful force, it resistible replaceable – now time to be developing alternatives existing policies, grounding them in ideas contest...