Foucault and managerial governmentality: rethinking the management of populations, organizations and individuals

In: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society

Abstract

About the contributors -- Introduction -- Governmentality : the career of a concept / Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet -- Locating governmentality -- Getting to the surface of things : foucault as theorist and historian of management and accounting / Keith Hoskin -- A dialogue with Foucault on power / Mark Haugaard -- Liberal governmentalities and the heterotopic behaviour of the firm / Eric Pezet and Nelarine Cornelius -- Bodies and souls -- Governmentality and the historian : Scotland and the history of protestant pastoral -- Power / Alistair Mutch -- Government at a distance : the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola / Jose Bento da Silva and Paolo Quattrone -- Birth of the pain clinic : governmentality, identity, and chronic pain / Steven J. Gold -- Expertise, experts and governmentality -- ?bottled magic? : the business of self-knowledge / Alan McKinlay and Scott Taylor -- Governing knowledge : the Siemens experience / Nancy Richter -- Conclusion -- Making governmentality I : an interview with Peter Miller / Alan McKinlay -- Making governmentality II : an interview with Nikolas Rose / Alan McKinlay -- Index