Combining Qualitative Research Perspectives and Methods for Critical Social Purposes: The Neoliberal U.S. Childhood Public Policy Behemoth. Issue 1 (May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pérez, Michelle Salazar; Cannella, Gaile S.; Saavedra, Cinthya M.
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 7:Issue 1(2014)
• Page Start: 130
• Page End: 153
• Publication Date: 2014-05
• Subjects: neoliberal childhood policy -- critical qualitative methodologies -- capitalist patriarchy -- marginalized feminist perspectives; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2014.7.1.130
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

This article discusses the broad-based use of bricolage to examine the neoliberal childhood policy discourses and forms of implementation that are currently practiced in the United States. Diverse, traditionally marginalized understandings such as Black feminist thought, Chicana feminism, and feminist analysis of capitalist patriarchy are combined with a Deleuze/Guattarian critique of capitalism and qualitative methods of situational analyses. We do this to identify childhood assemblages within the childhood public policy behemoth in the United States and compare these assemblages to capitalism more broadly, including how neoliberal practices are facilitated.