Governmentality

Mitchell Dean is Professor of Public Governance, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His previous books include Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (1999, revised second edition, SAGE, 2010),The Constitution of Poverty: Toward a Genealogy of Liberal Governance (Routledge, 1991/2012), Critical and Effective Histories: Foucault′s Methods and Historical Sociology (Routledge, 1994), and Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule (Open University Press, 2007). His publications range across a large number of fields focusing on problems of government, sovereignty and power, liberalism and neoliberalism, political and social thought, historical sociology, and social and public policy. However he has also published on topics as diverse as risk management, e-government, political mythology, ancient societies, war and peace, contemporary art, cinema and fashion.

Mitchell Dean has written an outstandingly clear and scholarly introduction to the central theses and methods of the analysis of the mentalities and techniques of rule… He not only provides a guide to Foucault′s own thought in this area, but he also draws upon other key thinkers in contemporary social theory to develop original and illuminating analysis of some principle formations of political power. Dean′s book should become required reading not just for those interested in the work of Michel Foucault, but for all those who are concerned with the dilemmas of contemporary politics.

• Introduction to the Second EditionBasic Concepts and ThemesGovernment and GovernmentalityAn Analytics of GovernmentAnalyzing Regimes of GovernmentGenealogy and GovernmentalityGenealogy and GovernmentLiberalism, Critique and ′the Social′ Neo-Liberalism and FoucaultDependency and Empowerment: Two Case StudiesDependencyEmpowermentConclusionPastoral Power, Police and Reason of StatePastoral PowerReason of State and PoliceConclusionBio-Politics and SovereigntyBio-PoliticsSovereignty and the Governmentalization of the StateLiberalismEconomySecurityLaw and NormSociety and Social GovernmentAuthoritarian GovernmentalityThe Illiberality of Liberal GovernmentBio-Politics, Race and Non-Liberal RuleNeo-Liberalism and Advanced Liberal GovernmentSociety, Freedom and ReformAdvanced Liberal GovernmentA Post-Welfarist Regime of the SocialRisk and Reflexive GovernmentTwo Approaches to RiskRisk and Reflexive ModernizationInsurance and GovernmentReflexive GovernmentInternational GovernmentalityFoucault and the InternationalBuilding on FoucaultConclusion: ′Not Bad... but Dangerous′Postscript to the Second Edition: The Crisis of Neo-Liberal Governmentality?