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

by Otto Penz and Birgit Sauer

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 thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815380747
• ISBN13: 9780815380740
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"