The Competent Public Sphere
Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace
Published on 20. August 2009
Book
Hardback
VI, 204 pages
978-0-230-00873-1 (ISBN)
Description
Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.
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Edition
2009 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
VI, 204 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-00873-1 (9780230008731)
DOI
10.1057/9780230244535
Schweitzer Classification
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J. Roberts
The Competent Public Sphere
Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communication at Brunel University, UK. He has researched and written about the public sphere, free speech, voluntary activity and social theory. His previous publications include
The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere;
Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction
(co-edited) and
After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere
(co-edited).
Content
Introducing Competence and the Public Sphere The New Economy The New Economy as the Fetish of Financialisation The Competent Public Sphere of the New Economy Democracy and Participation in the Competent Public Sphere Silencing the Thematic Utterances of Workers Trade Unions, Participation, and the Proletarian Public Sphere Conclusion: Towards a Socialist Public Sphere