The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the
social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon
the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will
bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including
those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this
approach to the analysis of political power and the state, and others
that analyse specific domains of the conduct of conduct, from marketing
to accountancy, and from the psychological management of organizations
to the government of economic life.
Bringing together empirical
papers on the government of economic, social and personal life, the
volume demonstrates clearly the importance of analysing these as
conjoint phenomena rather than separate domains, and questions some
cherished boundaries between disciplines and topic areas. Linking
programmes and strategies for the administration of these different
domains with the formation of subjectivities and the transformation of
ethics, the papers cast a new light on some of the leading issues in
contemporary social science modernity, democracy, reflexivity and
individualisation.
This volume will be indispensable for
all those, from whatever discipline in the social sciences, who have an
interest in the concepts and methods necessary for critical empirical
analysis of power relations in our present.
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