Brigitte Bargetz

Neoliberal tendencies like the privatization of parts of the state, the exclusion of structural inequalities within public debates, and the economization and individualization of the social profoundly transform the sphere of the “private.” Whereas in mainstream political sciences the political is often still reduced to the “public,” I aim at rethinking a concept of the political that is able to grasp these current transformations of the supposedly private. My reflections attempt to add theoretical depth to refine the feminist claim that the private is political.