ABSTRACT

This article examines youth entrepreneurship in Jordan in the context of the country's neoliberal reforms. Drawing on Foucauldian scholarship on neoliberal governmentality and the literature on authoritarian neoliberalism, we argue that youth empowerment is part of the Jordanian regime's strategy of subject formation along neoliberal lines through the dissemination of market ideas of competitiveness, enterprise society and self-responsibility. The article presents new empirical material that includes interviews conducted in Jordan and Egypt and highlights how the King's two initiatives display a win-win relationship for the regime and the youth alike without necessarily challenging the status.

摘要

本文探讨了该国新自由主义改革背景下约旦的青年企业家精神。借助福柯关于新自由主义政府性的学术研究和专制新自由主义的文献，我们认为，青年权是约旦政权通过传播竞争力，企业社会和自我责任的市场观念，沿着新自由主义路线形成主体的战略的一部分。文章介绍了新的经验材料，其中包括在约旦和埃及进行的采访，并着重强调了国王的两项倡议如何在不挑战地位的情况下为政权和年轻人展示了双赢的关系。