Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

by Nikolas Rose and Peter Miller

Book Overview

The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and the state, and others that analyse specific domains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745641016
• ISBN13: 9780745641010
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"