
Governing the Present
Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life
Polity Press
Will be published approx. on 11. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7456-4101-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"A convincing and disturbing account of the hegemonic power of the economy, government and public life in our modern world."Tribune "This book explores the nature and form of governmentality in an intriguing and challenging way. It asks how it is that some things appear as problems that need management and regulation. It explores what constitutes the basis of these 'problems' and the processes which underpin them. This is sociology at its best and the results are fascinating."
Ulrich Beck, Universitaet Munchen
"Miller and Rose present analyses of the expanded modern controls over, and recognition of, the individual. The imagery comes from Foucault, the studies focus on the professional analysts, and the conclusions suggest comparisons with earlier time periods. The book will interest all those concerned with modern rationalized individualism."
John Meyer, University of Stanford
"Over the last decade Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose have opened up a new continent in the social sciences, the material and discursive constitution of the modern individual human subject. Governing the Present is a brilliant account of this exploration. After it, social theory will never be the same again."
Michel Callon, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Students of Economics and Sociology
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-4101-0 (9780745641010)
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Persons
Nik Rose - Convenor of Department of Sociology, The London School of Economics
Peter Miller - Professor of Management Accounting, The London School of Economics
Author
Convenor of Department of Sociology, LSE
Professor of Management Accounting, LSE
Content
* Acknowledgments
* Chapter One: Introduction: Governing Economic and Social Life
* Chapter Two: Governing Economic Life
* Chapter Three: Political Power Beyond the State: Problematics of Government
* Chapter Four: The Death of the Social? Refiguring the Territory of Government
* Chapter Five: Mobilising the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption
* Chapter Six: On Therapeutic Authority
* Chapter Seven: Production, Identity and Democracy
* Chapter Eight: Accounting and Objectivity: The Invention of Calculating Selves and Calculable Spaces
* Chapter Nine: Governing 'Advanced' Liberal Democracies
* Bibliography: Consolidated reference list