Risk, power, and the state after Foucault / Magnus Hornqvist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hörnqvist, Magnus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Influence.

Foucault, Michel.

State, The.

Risk.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power, the Foucauldian tradition - with its strands of discourse analysis, of governmentality studies, or of radical Deleuzian critique - suffers from a lack of clarification on key conceptual issues. Oriented around four case studies, the architecture of the book devolves upon the distinction bet

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Activation guaranteed: Individualizing the pressure to perform; Chapter 2 Subjected freedom: The productivity of power; Chapter 3 Institutional order: Guiding repression through risk; Chapter 4 Generalized control: Negotiating contradictory expectations through risk; Chapter 5 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

A GlassHouse book -tp.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-15439-2

1-135-15440-6

1-282-57030-7

9786612570308

0-203-85705-4

9780203857052

OCLC:

609856815