Neutral experts or passionate participants? Renegotiating expertise and the right to act in Finnish participatory social policy
This article examines a case of participatory social policy in which former beneficiaries were invited as ‘experts-by-experience’ into Finnish social welfare organisations. It combines a governmentality perspective with the analytical tools of the sociology of engagements to explore as what the projects’ participants are engaged, and how the differing demands made on their ways of being are made to appear as legitimate. The article shows how different definitions of expertise are used to steer the participants’ forms of engagement, and how these definitions appear valid only within a specific frame of justifying civic participation. It concludes that the participants’ expertise is defined i…
Hallinnan ja osallistamisen politiikat
1. JOHDANTO: UUDEN HALLINNAN MONET KASVOT, Kari Kulovaara & Marko Nousiainen – 7 2. UUSI HALLINTA MANAGERIALISMINA, Kari Kulovaara – 22 3. KOKEMUSASIANTUNTIJUUS OHJAAVANA JA VOIMAANNUTTAVANA HALLINTANA, Taina Meriluoto – 65 4. OSALLISTUMINEN LÄHENTÄMISEN JA YHTEISÖNRAKENTAMISEN VÄYLÄNÄ EU:N KANSALAISUUSPOLITIIKASSA, Katja Mäkinen – 97 5. HANKEPERUSTAINEN KAUPUNKIPOLITIIKKA JA KANSALAISOSALLISTUMINEN, Kanerva Kuokkanen –125 6. OSALLISTAVAN KÄÄNTEEN LYHYT HISTORIA, Marko Nousiainen – 158