Neoliberal governance extended its emotional regulation into schools and parenting through coercive measures.

Evidence

Teachers were suborned into the role of emo-cops, ensuring that schoolchildren complied with the new emotional normativity. Parents judged to be failing were now required to attend “parenting classes”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1918

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific UK measures mandated parenting classes and school emotional-compliance programs during the Blair years? Would be worth chasing concrete policy names and dates.
• XREF: connects to: Control society operates through familial emotional bondage — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 686; Neoliberal governance rules the psyche rather than the body — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 53; Neoliberalism holds individual inviolability alongside managed manipulation of persons — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 187 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal school reforms operate as Freirean banking education #exemplifies (0.86) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 943
• Neoliberal governance rules the psyche rather than the body #expands (0.83) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 53
• Control society operates through familial emotional bondage #expands (0.81) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 686
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #expands (0.79) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Neoliberalism holds individual inviolability alongside managed manipulation of persons #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 187
• Neoliberalism’s dominant emotion was anxiety, not confident hubris #qualifies (0.74) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 81
• Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination #complicates (0.73) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 153
• Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics #qualifies (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 122