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Discourse, power and governmentality: Social movement research with and beyond Foucault

Baumgarten, Britta; Ullrich, Peter - 2012

people, and thus impact on the mobilizing potential of social movements. Referring to governmentality studies we show how …

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A snake's coils are even more intricate than a mole's burrow.: Individualization and subjectification in post-disciplinary regimes of work

Weiskopf, Richard; Loacker, Bernadette - In: Management Revue 17 (2006) 4, pp. 395-419

In contemporary discourse it is almost commonplace to describe societies and work relations as highly individualized. In this article we develop a conceptual framework that enables us to discuss processes and practices of individualization as political technologies. Following a line of thinking...

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“Free” and “unfree” money in German prisons: The role of accounting in educating public service users

Iloga Balep, Nathalie; Junne, Jaromir - In: Financial Accountability & Management 36 (2020) 2, pp. 171-188

citizens. Drawing on conceptions of financial literacy and governmentality, our paper presents the findings of a qualitative …

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The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level

Stoustrup, Sune Wiingaard - In: European Planning Studies (2021) Latest Articles

Governmentality and Europeanisation to explore how the local alignment of actions and government rationalities are linked. The …

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Emotional regimes in the political economy of the "welfare service state": The case of continuing education and active inclusion in Germany

Betzelt, Sigrid; Bode, Ingo - 2022

One of the most prominent trends in Western welfare capitalism during the last decades has been the expansion of welfare services as an outcome of the transition from the Fordist to a 'post-industrial' settlement, driven by changes in the wider society and the economic system. The advent of what...

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Child rights governance: An introduction

Holzscheiter, Anna; Josefsson, Jonathan; Sandin, Bengt - In: Childhood 26 (2019) 3, pp. 271-288

In this special issue, we explore child rights governance as the intersection between the study of governance and the study of children, childhood, and children’s rights. Our introduction puts forward a set of theoretical points of departure for the study of child rights governance, engaging...

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Beyond "Points of Control": logics of digital governmentality

Badouard, Romain; Mabi, Clément; Sire, Guillaume - In: Internet Policy Review 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-13

In this paper, we aim to show the heuristic benefit of Michel Foucault's concept of "governmentality", in order to … operating systems. This paper provides three illustrations of these logics of governmentality: the way in which Google tries to … direct webmasters' practices with the help of its SEO guidelines and a webmaster ranking system (governmentality by …

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Viewing the leadership narrative through alternate lenses: An autoethnographic investigation

Parry, Ken W. - In: Management Revue 19 (2008) 1/2, pp. 126-147

This conceptual-theoretical article revisits the work of Parry and Hansen on the nature of the organizational story as leadership. The present article is written in the autoethnographic style. The original narrative work is re-examined through the lenses of autoethnography, narrative theory,...

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What causes inequity in access to publicly funded health services that are supposedly free at the point of use? A case of user fee exemptions for older people in Senegal

Mladovsky, Philipa; Bâ, Maymouna - 2016

Plan Sésame (PS) was launched in 2006 to provide free access to health services to Senegalese citizens aged 60 and over. As in many countries, this user fee exemption is marred by inequitable implementation. This study seeks to identify underlying causal mechanisms to explain how and why some...

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Models and Reality: How Did Models Divorced from Reality Become Epistemologically Acceptable?

Zaman, Asad - In: International Econometric Review (IER) 12 (2020) 1, pp. 24-49

Economic models translate real problems to an artificial world, and calculate outcomes. The match between artificial worlds populated by rational robots, and the real world, is never assessed. Instead, models are judged on aesthetic grounds, involving conformity to preconceived principles of...

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