responsibilization
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[edit]From responsibilize + -ation.
Noun
[edit]responsibilization (usually uncountable, plural responsibilizations)
- (sociology) The transfer of responsibility from higher authorities to communities or individuals who are then called on to take an active role in resolving their own problems.
- 2001, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Punishment in Disguise, →ISBN:
- Responsibilization strategies involve a series of new techniques and methods "whereby the state seeks to bring about action on the part of private agencies and individuals - either by stimulating new forms of behaviour or by stopping established habits" (emphasis in the original).
- 2003, Richard Victor Ericson, Aaron Doyle, Risk and Morality, →ISBN, page 189:
- While responsibilization has become closely associated with neo-liberalism, with its inducement that individuals become entrepreneurs, it should be noted that responsibilization played a significant role in other historical periods.
- 2015, Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution, →ISBN, page 134:
- Responsibilization is not an inherent entailment of devolution; there are decidedly more empowering and more democratic potentials for devolved decision making.
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