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Foucault and Managerial Governmentality is about Michel Foucaultâs concept of governmentality. The novelty of this concept is that looks at the ways that populations and organisations are imagined in ways that premise collective gains through expanding individual freedoms. Specifically, how are technologies of freedom devised that improve the overall performanceâhealth, productivity, or parental responsibilityâof a given population?
Understanding the operation of technologies of control is a simple enough task, argues Foucault, but also one that blinds us to the increasing prevalence of technologies of freedom. Foucault and Managerial Governmentality aims not just to locate this concept in Foucaultâs wider research project but to apply it to all sorts of management techniques. By applying governmentality to questions of management and organization we will also develop Foucaultâs original, somewhat sketchy concept.
This book has three innovative narratives: an awareness of the historicity of the concept; the application of governmentality to specific forms of management means that we escape the temptation to read any and all forms of technology and organization as an expression of neoliberalism; and, finally, the interviews with Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose provide unique intellectual and personal insights into the development of the governmentalist project over the last thirty years.
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Alan McKinlay is Professor of Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK.
Eric Pezet is Professor in Organizational Theory and Human Resource Management at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France. He is co-founder of international research centre, Paris Research in Norms, Management and Law (PRIMAL).
