First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago," governmentality" has
become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences …

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events–such as
terrorism, climate change or pandemics–which we cannot predict but which may strike …

This volume brings scholars of anthropology, economics, Science and Technology Studies,
and sociology together with global political economy scholars in assessing the actual …

Risk shapes, and is shaped by, migration: although widely acknowledged, this is unevenly,
and mostly only implicitly, theorised and analysed. Starting from the distinction between risk …

In the context of thewar on terror', techniques of imagining the future have taken on new
political significance. Richard Grusin has coined the termpremediation'to describe the way in …

Concerns over climate-related issues have in a few years gone from the fringes of the
financial sector to mainstream discussions in the boardrooms of central banks. How did we …

Our paper engages with Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) as an emerging social policy instrument
in the Anglo-American world with particular emphasis on the UK. Starting from the …

This paper deals with the ideas underpinning the EU's socio-economic governance by
focusing on the notion of structural reforms in the framework of the European Semester. It …

The search for a universally acceptable definition of corruption has been a central element
of scholarship on corruption over the last decades, without it ever reaching a consensus in …

Beginning as an afterthought in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,
adaptation as an agenda has come a long way since 1992. With no ambitious mitigation …