Towards a Neoliberal Citizenship Regime

摘要: This thesis is empirically grounded in New Zealand’s restructuring of unemployment and taxation policy the 1980s 1990s. Theoretically it inspired by a postMarxist discourse analytical approach that focuses on discourses as political strategies. has made possible, through an analysis changing citizenship discourses, to understand how neoliberalisation regime proceeded via debate struggle over policy. Debates Zealand during 1990s reconfigured targets re-ordered social antagonism, establishing neoliberal centring problematic. construction involved re-specifying public consumers taxpayers. In exploring hegemonic strategies Fourth Labour Government subsequent National-led governments 1990s, this traces process reconfiguring citizen subjectivity initially ‘social consumers’ participants coalition minorities, subsequently universal taxpayers antagonistic relation unemployed beneficiaries. These changes are related back key discursive events recent history well shifts politicians address nature interest I argue was outcome articulatory governing parties Struggles between government administrations citizen-based movement groups were articulated project. also late dominant define themselves difference from each other reveals both ‘de’contestation set