Identities, people's subjectively construed understandings of who they were, are and desire
to become, are implicated in, and thus key to understanding and explaining, almost …

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Powers of Freedom, first published in 1999, offers a compelling approach to the analysis of
political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging …

On television and in films, in magazines and books, on the Internet and in the realm of
politics, celebrities of all sorts seem to dominate our attention. Celebrity Society: The …

Social science research can play a valuable role in enabling people to understand how their
personal predicaments relate to the broader structures and historical circumstances in which …

The project of writing this book back in 1999 began with a simple concern that the account of
organisational behaviour expressed or implied in academic work often did not give an …

This book was radically challenging when it was first published, and is only more so today
as the concept of consumer collapses under the weight of its many meanings'-Madeleine …

This text comprehensively surveys and critically positions the main issues, theories and
contemporary debates surrounding postfeminism. It covers the term's underpinnings and …

The 'governmentality'approach has been influential in analyzing how neoliberal governance
transfers responsibility to individual agents through an 'appeal of freedom'mechanism. This …

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