@kellymckowen.bsky.social ial examines Norway’s social investment as a normative order through ethnographic study of job-seeker courses, showing how they shape moral education around individual responsibility and a 'natural' job market within social democracy.
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Scandinavia's (largely) publicly-funded film industry has gifted the world with some of the 21st century's best movies and actors. Moreover, it makes directing, acting, and screenwriting thinkable as careers for ordinary people.
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🚨📃👀In "Making up the market: Job-seeker courses and the ordinary ethics of social investment in Norway" @kellymckowen.bsky.social proposes to view social investment as animated by claims about the relationship between human capital, economic growth and welfare
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