Never Too Late for Pleasure: Aging, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Potentiality in Denmark
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Never Too Late for Pleasure : Aging, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Potentiality in Denmark. / Mikkelsen, Henrik Hvenegaard.
In: American Ethnologist, Vol. 44, No. 4, 2017, p. 646–656.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Never Too Late for Pleasure
T2 - Aging, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Potentiality in Denmark
AU - Mikkelsen, Henrik Hvenegaard
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Health promotion in the Danish welfare state increasingly consists of helping people to identify and realize their inner potential for health and happiness. Such a “politics of potentiality” might seem to reflect the widespread neoliberal economic deregulation and austerity policies that have in recent decades marked public health sectors throughout the industrialized world. But in the encounter between the Danish state and its aging citizens, all moral demands converge on the imperative of identifying how citizens may become subjects who live up to certain definitions of what constitutes pleasure and selfrealization. This represents an instantiation of neoliberal health promotion that targets the sense of loss that people associate with their unactualized potentials—their unlived lives.
AB - Health promotion in the Danish welfare state increasingly consists of helping people to identify and realize their inner potential for health and happiness. Such a “politics of potentiality” might seem to reflect the widespread neoliberal economic deregulation and austerity policies that have in recent decades marked public health sectors throughout the industrialized world. But in the encounter between the Danish state and its aging citizens, all moral demands converge on the imperative of identifying how citizens may become subjects who live up to certain definitions of what constitutes pleasure and selfrealization. This represents an instantiation of neoliberal health promotion that targets the sense of loss that people associate with their unactualized potentials—their unlived lives.
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 44
SP - 646
EP - 656
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
SN - 0094-0496
IS - 4
ER -
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