Shona Hunter

Power, Politics and the Emotions

Impossible Governance?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are complex sets of emotional dynamics which complicate the already contested terrain of social policy making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415555104
• ISBN-10: 0415555108
• Artikelnr.: 41612125

Autorenporträt

Shona Hunter is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy Governance at the University of Leeds, England and a Research Associate at the Research Centre into Visual Identities in Architecture and Design at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Governance from a Feminist Psychosocial Perspective
Chapter One: Governing Subjects, Repression and Equality
Chapter Two: Ordering Differentialtion: Reconfiguring Governance as Relational Politics
Part Two: The Relational Politics of Governance
Chapter Three: Governing Subjectivities: The Politics of Ontological Detatchment and Relational Connection
Chapter Four: The Circulation and Distribution of Bad Feeling
Chapter Five: Resisting the Happy Governmentalities of Diversity
Chapter Six: Sustaining Collective Challenges to Policy Monoliths
Chapter Seven: Equalities Policy as Relational Hinterland
Conclusion: Mobilising Hopeful Fictions Through Differentiated Uncertainties