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Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals book cover

1st Edition

Foucault and Managerial Governmentality Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals

Edited By Alan McKinlay, Eric Pezet Copyright 2017
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part 1: Introduction

1. Governmentality: The Career of a Concept

Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet

Part 2: Locating Governmentality

2. Getting to the Surface of Things: Foucault as Theorist and Historian of Management and Accounting

Keith Hoskin

3. A Dialogue with Foucault on Power

Mark Haugaard

4. Liberal Governmentalities and the Heterotopic Behaviour of the Firm

Eric Pezet and Nelarine Cornelius

Part 3: Bodies and Souls

5. Governmentality and the Historian: Scotland and the History of Protestant Pastoral Power

Alistair Mutch

Chapter Eight6: Government at a Distance: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Jose Bento da Silva and Paolo Quattrone

Chapter Ten7: Birth of the Pain Clinic: Governmentality, Identity, and Chronic Pain

Steven J. Gold

Part 4: Expertise, Experts and Governmentality

8. ‘Bottled Magic’: The Business of Self-Knowledge

Alan McKinlay and Scott Taylor

9. Governing Knowledge: The Siemens Experience

Nancy Richter

Part 5: Conclusion

10. Making Governmentality I: An Interview with Peter Miller

Alan McKinlay

11. Making Governmentality II: An Interview with Nikolas Rose

Alan McKinlay

Biography

Alan McKinlay is Professor of Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK.　

Eric Pezet is Professor in Organizational Theory and Human Resource Management at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France. He is co-founder of international research centre, Paris Research in Norms, Management and Law (PRIMAL).

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