Governing economic life

“Researchers such as Mitchell Dean (1999, 2007), Nikolas Rose (1999, 2000) and Peter Miller (Miller & Rose 1989, 1990, 1992, 2008) developed Foucauldian governmentality analysis in terms of the analytics of government.”

“Technologies and practices are forms of discourse, so-called truth procedures elaborated by the governmentality literature to include not only pronouncements of the state and subjects, but also more mundane mechanisms of calculation, notation, and language that make such pronouncements intelligible or thinkable (Mille…”

“…the literature on ‘governmentality’, and the translation approach within Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we argue that online educational databases are a technology of representation that enables the governing of bodies and actions ‘at a distance’ (see Latour, 1990; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose, 1999).”

“Theorists of governmentality acknowledge that governing interventions often fail to generate the desired outcome (Fletcher, 2010; Miller and Rose, 1990) since there are inherent limitations to governmental power, such as the ability of subjects being governed to act otherwise and the influence of…”

“Accounting calculations and statements can assist by making available to imperial powers “mobile, combinable and comparable data” (Miller & Rose 1990, p. 7), and thus enable imperial powers to “translate government policy regarding indigenous peoples into practice” in specific localities (Neu &…”

“…logic of inflation targeting in relation to the emergence of an ensemble of biopolitical programmes and activities designed to act upon and ensure the ongoing activation of economic life as an open field of processual activity (see Massumi, 2005; also Anderson, 2012; Rose and Miller, 1990).”

“…using Foucault’s concept of governmentality have demonstrated the importance of accounting practices in order to manage populations at a distance and to achieve desired governmental outcomes (Álvarez-Dardet et al., 2002; Miller and O’Leary, 1987; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“The confessional aspect of ACs may also be interpreted as evidence that the ideal employee, in addition to having the capacity to act as an autonomous (responsibilitized) worker, 39 must demonstrate a willingness to subject herself entirely to the goals of the organization (Miller & Rose, 1990 ).”

“This implies governing ‘at a distance’ (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 18) and accomplishing ‘policy objectives through markets’ (Krippner, 2007, p. 478).”

“Historians have examined the emergence of this authority, documenting the many ways bureaucrats turn to statistics to distance themselves from their decisions (Miller and Rose 1990; Rose,1991; Porter,1996; Wise,1997).”

“In other words, successful power is derived by the way that “some actions seem naturally more appropriate than others” (Agrawal 2005, p. 224; Miller and Rose 1990).”

“As we shall see, both these ‘rationalities’ (Miller and Rose, 1990) and their associated modes of knowing and ordering (Law, 1994) still co-inhabit the infrastructures of administration and continue to mediate the Amazon qua both a fragile ecosystem in need of conservation and a”

“Accounting intervenes in (Robson & Young, 2009) and governs human behavior (Miller & O’Leary, 1987; Miller & Rose, 1990; Robson, 1994), thereby shaping and confirming the orders of the world that are taken for granted (Miller, 1994).”

“…(ROSE et al., 2006; HENNESSY, 2013)—acting from the geographic center of authority (in the capital, Georgetown) on the desires and activities of those in the interior (primarily indigenous groups), who are spatially and organizationally distinct (MILLER and ROSE, 1990; MURDOCH and WARD, 1997).”

“In that sense, the adoption of accounting technologies is hampered by the impossibility of establishing the conditions that make them work, such as clear lines of command (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“Technologies of government seek to translate governing aims ‘into the domain of reality, and to establish ‘‘in the world of persons and things’’ spaces and devices for acting upon those entities of which they dream and scheme’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 8).”

“Through Cashflow, players voluntarily try to acquire the accounting tools, principles and goals that are supposed to lead them to financial success, and at the same time to become the autonomous calculative subjects imagined by the neoliberal art of government (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“…2008: 79, 215), whether through the purchase of private housing, social and health insurance, or through the enterprising pursuit of selffulfilment in the workplace where ‘creativity, reactivity and flexibility are the new watchwords’ (Boltanski and Chiapello 2005: 90; cf. Miller and Rose 1990).”

“We are now in a situation where we, as social citizens, are expected to be self-regulators of our actions and bodies (Miller and Rose, 1990; Castel, 1991; Higgs, 1998).”

“For a discussion of the particular notion of ª governing economic lifeº used here, and the wider tradition on which it draws, see: Foucault (1991); Gordon (1991); Miller and Rose (1990); Rose and Miller (1992).”

“Social institutions such as law also operate ‘by releasing the psychological strivings of individuals for autonomy and creativity . . . capitalizing upon the motivations and aspirations of its inhabitants’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 26).”

“This drive for more economic activity was accompanied by the global spread of the notion of corporate freedom, which was promoted as a method of facilitating such activities (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Consider, for example, the institutionalized practices of accounting systems, which are considered fundamental for any ‘rational’ economic order and carry great symbolic significance (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“As described in Section 2.1, Foucauldian planning involves an assessment of state power via the governmentality approach (Dean, 1999; Foucault, Burchell, Gordon, & Miller, 1991; Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose & Miller, 1992).”

“The apparent homogeneity of the Left in Ireland alerts to how powerful, neoliberal political rationalities and mentalities (Miller and Rose, 1990) of consensus and pragmatism circulate and govern at a distance through organisations, networks and individuals (Gray, 2006b: 122) reproducing…”

“Miller and Rose (1990) highlighted that programs of government do not work by themselves, but require “technologies’ if they”

“This mode of governance implies that the subjects preserve a significant degree of autonomy and “voluntarily” engage in the center-initiated processes that shape their conduct (Miller & Rose, 1990, p.14).”

“This is achieved through technologies of power, which delimit and manage the spaces in which we exist (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 8), encouraging the proliferation of certain attributes (Foucault, 1979, p. 139).”

“See especially Miller & Rose (1990) and the various contributions in Callon’s (1998) and Callon et al.’s (2007) collections.”

“By paying close attention ‘to the actual mechanisms through which authorities of various sorts have sought to shape, normalize and instrumentalize the conduct, thought, decisions and aspirations of others’ we begin to understand modern forms of rule (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 8).”

“Neo-liberalism has forged new relations ‘between the economic health of the nation and the “private” choices of individuals’ (Miller and Rose, 1990, p. 329).”

“As examples (some of which are critical of an excessive reliance on Foucault) see, for instance, Harper 1988; Hines 1988; Hopwood 1986,1987; Miller 1991; Miller and O'Leary 1990; Miller and Rose 1990; Munro 1993; Munro and Hatherly 1993; Power 1991, 1994; and Roberts and Scapens 1990.”

“As such, managed autonomy can be understood in light of the concept of governmentality, a configuration of power relations, which enables the management of others’ autonomy by means of ‘government at a distance’ (Miller and Rose 1990, 9).”

“This idea of individuals acting as ‘overseers’ of the self is extended in the idea of governmentality (Miller and Rose, 1990), where Foucault’s view of governing as the ‘conduct of conduct’ is complemented by the concept of self-responsibilisation, a mode in which the state is able to govern ‘at a…”

“The creation of a new bureaucratic apparatus made up of governmental experts (Miller, 1990), most importantly the Provveditore and the Auditore dello Studio, whose presence and wide-ranging powers were not sanctioned in the Statute or approved by students, and the widespread use of written…”

“They require ‘technologies’ to be made operable (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“This paper draws on the govermentality framework (Foucault, 1991; Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose & Miller, 1992) in its examination of the relationship between medical and financial discourses.”

“In this manner, the paper draws on the governmentality literature (Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992) to link together accounting, the state and popular culture by highlighting the role of calculative technologies in seeking to align the actions of the autonomous citizen with…”

“Power is said to be decentralized, networked, functioning-at-a distance and nested within systems of surveillance, knowledge and expertise (Dirsuweit, 1999; Foucault, 1978; Garland, 1997; Miller and Rose, 1990; Philo, 2002; Rose, 1989; Simon, 2005).”

“What is distinctive about these technologies of government, i.e. the modern forms of rules that seek to ‘shape, normalize and instrumentalize the conduct, thought, decisions and aspirations of others’, is that it has enabled government at a distance (Miller and Rose 1993, 82–83. original emphasis).”

“Second, complementing studies that focus on the analysis of micro-technologies of intervention and everyday relations of power (Dean, 1999; Miller and Rose, 1990), we draw upon recent work that reads Foucault as a genealogist of statecraft and examine relationships between micro-technologies and…”

“In taking such an approach to governing, discourses are a critical component of governing practices as they have concrete effects (Miller & Rose 1990).”

“Consequently, an appreciable proportion of governmentality studies has dealt with the impact of enterprise and business management on the public sector (Longstreth 1990; Burchell 1993; Rose 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999a,b, 2000; Miller & Rose 1990, 1995; Hindess 1996a; Barnett 2002).”

“the ambitions of a number of different interest groups at the same time (Miller and Rose 1993).”