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Post-Foucauldian governmentality : What does it offer critical social policy analysis?

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Date
08/2009
Author
McKee, Kim
Keywords
Ethnography
Foucault
Governing
Power
Resistance
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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Abstract
This article considers the theoretical perspective of post-Foucauldian governmentality, especially the insights and challenges it poses for applied researchers within the critical social policy tradition. The article firstly examines the analytical strengths of this approach to understanding power and rule in contemporary society, before moving on to consider its limitations for social policy. It concludes by arguing that these insights can be retained, and some of the weaknesses overcome, by adopting Stenson's realist governmentality approach. This advocates combining traditional discursive analysis with more ethnographic methods in order to render visible the concrete activity of governing, and unravel the messiness, complexity and unintended consequences involved in the struggles around subjectivity.
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McKee , K 2009 , ' Post-Foucauldian governmentality : What does it offer critical social policy analysis? ' , Critical Social Policy , vol. 29 , no. 3 , pp. 465-486 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018309105180
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Critical Social Policy
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018309105180
ISSN
0261-0183
Type
Journal article
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(c)2009 Critical Social Policy Ltd and the author. This is an author version of the article. The definitive version is available from http://online.sagepub.com/
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http://csp.sagepub.com/content/29/3/465
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1360

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