Governing Affects: Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work

by Birgit Sauer and Otto Penz

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.

By investigating the rise of affective labour in contemporary European service societies and the conversion of state administrations into business-like public services, the authors trace the transformative power of neoliberal political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103208233X
• ISBN13: 9781032082332
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"