Emancipation of Career

Reconceptualising Careers Beyond Neoliberalism

AvTristram Hooley,Rie Thomsen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This fascinating research monograph offers a new and comprehensive analysis of how career: emerged as a social category can be more rigorously theorised to support future analysis, and can be reconceptualised to support new forms of living and working. Esteemed authors, Tristram Hooley and Rie Thomsen, explore the concept of career in contemporary society and sociology to establish career as an explanatory category for critical social analyses. They build on this analysis to argue that the concept of career can be used as part of a project of personal and societal emancipation. Drawing on historical, sociological and psychological evidence, the authors describe the contemporary environment for careers. In the process of conducting a thorough analysis of the forms and rhetorics of career, they reconceptualise the concept of career, untethering it from its origins in twentieth century capitalism and re-imagining it as an emancipatory and democratic concept. This re-conceptualisation prompts them to analyse how the career concept can be used to support people in the contemporary world; to rethink their lives and what they derive meaning from, to imagine better worlds, and to develop new forms of society. To date, work examining the phenomenon of career has confined itself to a particular strand of research. This has either focused on the experience of the individual and how to best support individual career development (in career studies), on the organisation (organisation and management studies), or, rarely, on how career fits into the political economy and ideal society (sociology, economics and political science). This ground-breaking book combines all these different strands and, in doing so, develops a new theory of career.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Trotman Indigo Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781911724834

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Professor Tristram Hooley is a researcher and writer focusing on career and career guidance. He is Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby and also holds Professorial titles at the Inland Norway University of Applied Science and Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the Chief Editor of the NICEC journal, a Winston Churchill Fellow and the Chair of the Critical approaches to career and career guidance COST project. He is also on the board of the Career Development Policy Group and the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy. Tristram has written thirteen books, including most recently The Career Development Handbook for Trotman, and many articles and reports. His work explores the relationship between career, policy and technology and examines how career guidance can support individuals to manage their engagement with work, learning and society. You can find out more about his work on his blog Adventures in Career Development (https://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com/).Professor Rie Thomsen is Head of Career Guidance at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She also holds Professorial positions at the University of Southeastern Norway, the University of Lower Silecia in Poland and the International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of Derby in England. Rie’s research revolves around lifelong career guidance practices and policies with a special interest in social justice and the role of communities. Furthermore, she has a strong interest in creating an inspiring environment for interdisciplinary and collaborative research in Career Guidance. She is the scientific coordinator of the European Doctoral School in career guidance and counselling (ECADOC). In 2012 she published the book Career Guidance in Communities and has been involved in writing and editing countless volumes since. In 2013 she was awarded with the National Guidance Award for her research and its usefulness for practice.

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Why career? Where did careers come from? What does career mean now? Who has the right to a career? How can we build a 'good' career? Can career emancipate citizens and societies?

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