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In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research
inspired by Michel Foucault's suggestion of a new concept,
'governmentality'. The distinctive feature of modern
governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is
predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through which-and
by which-power is exercised. The appeal of governmentality is that,
whether we are considering the workplace, the school or welfare
regimes, it opens up new ways of looking at familiar institutions.
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality is about Michel Foucault's
concept of governmentality. The novelty of this concept is that
looks at the ways that populations and organisations are imagined
in ways that premise collective gains through expanding individual
freedoms. Specifically, how are technologies of freedom devised
that improve the overall performance-health, productivity, or
parental responsibility-of a given population? Understanding the
operation of technologies of control is a simple enough task,
argues Foucault, but also one that blinds us to the increasing
prevalence of technologies of freedom. Foucault and Managerial
Governmentality aims not just to locate this concept in Foucault's
wider research project but to apply it to all sorts of management
techniques. By applying governmentality to questions of management
and organization we will also develop Foucault's original, somewhat
sketchy concept. This book has three innovative narratives: an
awareness of the historicity of the concept; the application of
governmentality to specific forms of management means that we
escape the temptation to read any and all forms of technology and
organization as an expression of neoliberalism; and, finally, the
interviews with Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose provide unique
intellectual and personal insights into the development of the
governmentalist project over the last thirty years.
In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research
inspired by Michel Foucault's suggestion of a new concept,
'governmentality'. The distinctive feature of modern
governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is
predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through which-and
by which-power is exercised. The appeal of governmentality is that,
whether we are considering the workplace, the school or welfare
regimes, it opens up new ways of looking at familiar institutions.
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality is about Michel Foucault's
concept of governmentality. The novelty of this concept is that
looks at the ways that populations and organisations are imagined
in ways that premise collective gains through expanding individual
freedoms. Specifically, how are technologies of freedom devised
that improve the overall performance-health, productivity, or
parental responsibility-of a given population? Understanding the
operation of technologies of control is a simple enough task,
argues Foucault, but also one that blinds us to the increasing
prevalence of technologies of freedom. Foucault and Managerial
Governmentality aims not just to locate this concept in Foucault's
wider research project but to apply it to all sorts of management
techniques. By applying governmentality to questions of management
and organization we will also develop Foucault's original, somewhat
sketchy concept. This book has three innovative narratives: an
awareness of the historicity of the concept; the application of
governmentality to specific forms of management means that we
escape the temptation to read any and all forms of technology and
organization as an expression of neoliberalism; and, finally, the
interviews with Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose provide unique
intellectual and personal insights into the development of the
governmentalist project over the last thirty years.
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