EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality

This volume draws on a Foucauldian understanding of governmentality to explore how EU civil society funding policies depoliticise civil society organisations. It questions whether international civil society funding always depoliticises civil society organisations, as literature on governmentality and international civil society policies argues.

Autorentext

Hanna L. Muehlenhoff is a lecturer at the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her research is on the EU's human rights promotion, gender and security policies, focusing on Turkey. She recently published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Politics.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: On EU democracy promotion, the question of depoliticisation, and the case of Turkey 2. (De)politicisation, (neo-)liberal governmentality, and hegemonic struggles 3. The (neo-)liberal governmentality of EU civil society programs 4. The (de)politicisation of women's rights organisations in a complex context 5. (De)politicising LGBT rights organisations and the effects of visibility 6. The (de)politicisisation of the securitised Kurdish rights issue 7. Conclusions