This book makes a major contribution to understanding an emerging core concept in the social sciences: governmentality. By looking at the work of Foucault, this book aims to reclaim governmentality as a central concept in sociology and draws on wider analytical frameworks and traditions to provide the first complete overview of the subject. Mitchell Dean shows that governmentality encapsulates a new orientation to the study of power and authority. It allows for a new, more relevant understanding of how the individual is ...
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This book makes a major contribution to understanding an emerging core concept in the social sciences: governmentality. By looking at the work of Foucault, this book aims to reclaim governmentality as a central concept in sociology and draws on wider analytical frameworks and traditions to provide the first complete overview of the subject. Mitchell Dean shows that governmentality encapsulates a new orientation to the study of power and authority. It allows for a new, more relevant understanding of how the individual is connected to the state and vice versa.
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