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GOVERNING CITIZENS THROUGH SELF-HELP LITERATURE
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This article explores contemporary self-help literature as a strategy for enlisting subjects in the pursuit of self-improvement and autonomy. Appropriating democratic liberalism's and neo-liberalism's ways of seeing the individual and the social world, self-help promotes the idea that a good citizen cares for herself or himself best by evading or denying social relations. Yet a hyper-responsible self, the result of self-help practice, is intrinsically linked to the governmental management of populations, and so to less individual autonomy rather than more.
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- Authors
- Rimke, H. M.
- Venue
- Cultural Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2000-01
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 61-78
- ISSN
- 0950-2386 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-4348
- OpenAlex
- W2154126229
- Cited by
- 429
- References
- 24
- FWCI
- 15.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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