%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Social investment¡¯ as political economy of education: Recent changes in early childhood education in New Zealand
%A Margaret Stuart
%J Global Studies of Childhood
%@ 2043-6106
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2043610618763177
%X The newly coined policy of social investment is an economic argument for targeting state investment to the most needy. I use Foucault¡¯s notion of biopolitics in a discursive analysis of recent New Zealand policy documents pertaining to a discrete group of ¡®vulnerable children¡¯. I further argue that the Foucauldian metaphor of state institutions as war-like gives knowledge/power to investment as efficient government
%K biopolitics
%K Foucault
%K ¡®social investment¡¯
%K vulnerable children
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043610618763177