Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Studies of Discourse and Governmentality
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. New perspectives on discourse and governmentality
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Perspectives on Foucault's influential oeuvre
  • 2.1 Foucault on discourse, knowledge and truth
  • 2.2 Foucault on power and governmentality
  • 2.3 Foucault on the subject, ethics and the government of the self
  • 3. The (un)familiar face of Foucault in discourse studies
  • 4. After Foucault: Contemporary debates about governmentality
  • 4.1 Key figures
  • 4.2 Disciplinary attachments
  • 4.3 An example
  • 5. Rethinking issues for discourse studies
  • 5.1 Critique, problematisation and genealogy: tools for discourse studies?
  • 5.2 Practice and conduct in Foucault and discourse studies
  • 5.3 Counter-conduct and resistance in discourse and social interaction
  • 5.4 Rationalities, categorisation and the politico-moral order
  • 5.5 Practices and discourses of ethicalisation
  • 5.6 Mediated discourse, assemblage and the topology of power
  • 6. Overview of the chapters
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Part I. Intersecting governmentalities in public discourse
  • Chapter 2. Governing citizen engagement: A discourse studies perspective
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical reflections
  • 3. Methodology and data
  • 4. Analysis and discussion
  • 4.1 Inviting the citizens
  • 4.2 Between autonomy and governance
  • 4.3 Citizens conducting other citizens
  • 4.4 Reaching out for alliances with institutional players: The utility
  • 4.5 Governing through the 'techne' of incentives
  • 4.6 A revised strategy: 'Attacking' the neighbourhoods
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Websites
  • Coding system in transcriptions
  • Chapter 3. The discursive intersection of the government of others and the govern
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Approaching the intersection of the government of others and the government of the self
  • 2.1 Studies of governmentality
  • 2.2 Ethnomethodological discourse analysis
  • 2.3 Considering commensurability
  • 3. "I know it's cheaper": Pre-empting accountability
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Transcription conventions
  • References
  • Chapter 4. The art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Foucault: Power, freedom and resistance
  • 3. The loose phenomenology of governmentality research
  • 4. Conversation analysis as a tool to explicate governmental practices
  • 5. The policy of vocational rehabilitation
  • 5.1 The motivated client, the reasonable client
  • 6. NAV-counsellors' adjustments to passive client resistance
  • 7. Discussion and conclusion
  • Transcription symbols
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Governing governments? Discursive contestations of governmentality in the transpar
  • 1. The self-presentation of transparency
  • 2. Transparency as dispositif
  • 3. Transparency as governmentality
  • 4. Discourse and the formule
  • 5. On the Séralini Affair
  • 6. Circulation and boundaries
  • 7. The politics of transparency discourse
  • References
  • Part II. Discourse, practice and prefigurative governmentalities
  • Chapter 6. Governing safe operations at a distance: Enacting responsible risk communication at work
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The governing of organisations and risks
  • 3. The 'textualisation of work' and workplace meetings
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Taking responsibility for the form and duration of risk communication
  • 5.2 Taking responsibility for both the paper work and the genuineness of risk communication
  • 5.3 Taking responsibility for communicating on-topic
  • 5.4 Communicating risk with due consideration to economisation.
  • 5.5 Communicating responsibly irrespective of illness or place
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7. Dialogue and governmentality-in-action: A discourse analysis of a leadership forum
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The leadership forum
  • 3. Governmentality-in-action
  • 4. Dispositif, heteroglossia and dialogue
  • A Bakhtinian perspective
  • 5. Other-orientation and interactional trajectories of socioculture and dispositifs
  • 6. Dialogism and membership categorisation analysis (MCA)
  • 7. The analysis
  • 8. Summary
  • 9. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 8. Diagnosing transnationality: Therapy discourse and psy practices in the ethicalisa
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Transnational governmentality
  • 3. Mediated discourses of transnational living
  • 4. Discursive technologies of transnational subjectivation
  • 4.1 The construction of transnationality as an ethical substance: Locating-and-stretching the probl
  • 4.2 Discursive problematisation of the transnational substance: Making the diagnosis
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  • 4.3 The techniques of care for the transnational subject: Prescribing the treatment
  • 5. Towards the notion of transnational governmentality
  • References
  • Chapter 9. Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations: Interactional and c
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Governmentality in practice
  • 3. Counter-conducts
  • 4. Conducting conduct in social interaction
  • 5. Case study: "United Nathans weapons inspectors"
  • 6. Inspections and demonstrations
  • 7. Analysis of the "United Nathans weapons inspectors" event
  • 7.1 From service encounter to mock inspection
  • 7.2 Doing a mock inspection
  • 7.3 Analytics of protest practices
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III. Discourse, policy and governmentality
  • Chapter 10. Governmentality through intertextuality: Strategic planning discourse in the
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. A brief history of government planning
  • 3. Tertiary education in New Zealand
  • 4. Intertextuality as a focus of analysis
  • 5. Constitutive intertextuality in the tertiary education strategy
  • 6. Manifest intertextuality in the tertiary education strategy
  • 7. Strategic planning in a New Zealand university
  • 8. Investment plans
  • 9. Concluding discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 11. Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discour
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Critical discourse analysis and studies of governmentality
  • 3. Security, power and control
  • 4. A case study: Urban security policies and discourses in Milan
  • 4.1 The socio-political context: urban security discourses and policies in Italy
  • 4.2 The situational context: "Local Pacts for Urban Security"
  • 4.3 Analytical categories
  • 4.4 The discursive construction of urban (in)security in local police discourse and practices
  • 5. Final remarks
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Chapter 12. Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discou
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Analysing the discourse of demographic change with Foucault as an ontology of the present
  • 3. The fabrication of demographic future knowledge
  • 4. Garbled demography? Demographic change in the German mass-media from 2000 to 2013
  • 5. Conclusion: The changing governmentality of demographic change
  • References
  • Notes on contributors
  • Name index
  • Subject index.