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<p><P><b>Risk, Power and the State</b> addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power, the Foucauldian tradition &#151; with its strands of discourse analysis, of governmentality studies, or of radical Deleuzian critique &#151; suffers from a lack of clarification on key conceptual issues. Oriented around four case studies, the architecture of the book devolves upon the distinction between productive and repressive power. The first two studies focus on productive power&#58; the management of long-term unemployment in the public employment service and cognitive-behavioural interventions in the prison service. Two further studies concern repressive interventions&#58; the conditions of incarceration in the prison service and the activity of the customs service. These studies reveal that power, as conceptualised within the Foucauldian tradition, must be modified. A more complex notion of productive power is needed, which covers interventions that appeal to desires, a

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Author

Magnus Hörnqvist

Publisher

Routledge-Cavendish

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415547680

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Law, Political Science