Governing Through Pedagogy
This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the pedagogical state as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically interrogate the cultural practices of governing citizens in contemporary liberal societies. Governing through pedagogy can be identified as an emerging tactic by which both state agencies and other non-state actors manage, administer, discipline, shape, care for and enable liberal citizens. Hence, discourses of active citizenship, participatory democracy, community empowerment, personalised responsibility, behaviour change and community cohesion are productively viewed through the conceptual lens of the pedagogical state. Chapters consider the spaces of schools, universities, the voluntary sector, civil society organisations, parenting initiatives, the media, government departments and state agencies as fruitful empirical sites through which pedagogy is worked and re-worked.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Jessica Pykett is a lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University where she is researching the politics of governing through behaviour change, and the ascendance of libertarian paternalism in UK public policies.
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Contents
Jessica Pykett
Jessica Pykett
John Clarke
Clarissa Rile Hayward
Lynn A. Staeheli and Daniel Hammett
Michael Bailey
Richenda Gambles
Janet Newman
Rhys Jones
Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, Linda Houser and Richard C. Fording
Maki Kimura
Denise Meredyth
Michael Bailey teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. He is the editor of Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope (2012), The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance (2011), Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique (2011), Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty First Century (2011) and Narrating Media History (2009). He has held visiting fellowships at Goldsmiths, the LSE and at the University of Cambridge.
John Clarke is Professor of Social Policy at the Open University, where he has worked for more than 30 years on the political and cultural struggles involved in remaking the relationships between welfare, states and nations. He has a particular interest in the ways in which managerialism and consumerism have been involved in reconstructing publics and public services. He is currently working with an international group on a project called Disputing Citizenship . His books include Changing Welfare, Changing States (2004); Creating Citizen-Consumers (with Janet Newman and others, 2007) and Publics, Politics and Power: remaking the public in public services (with Janet Newman, 2009).
Richard C. Fording is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He has published numerous articles on welfare policy, race and politics, criminal justice policy, and state politics in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology , and the Journal of Politics , among others. He is the co-author (with Joe Soss and Sanford F. Schram) of Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (2011).
Richenda Gambles recently finished her PhD for which she studied at the Open University. She has previously worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Intervention, University of Oxford and now works at the Blavatnik School of Government, also at the University of Oxford. Her publications include The Myth of Work-Life Balance (with S. Lewis and R. Rapoport, 2006), and her contributions to edited collections include Going Public? Articulations of the personal and political on Mumsnet.com, in Rethinking the Public (eds. N. Mahony, J. Newman and C. Barnett, 2010) and Social Citizenship and the Question of Social Citizenship and the Question of Gender, in Devolution and Social Citizenship (ed. S. Greer, 2009).
Dan Hammett is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, and holds a research associate post at the Department of Geography, University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests cover political and development geographies, with continuing projects addressing expressions of African state and nation-hood through political iconography, practices of resistance and political satire as challenges to excesses of African state power, and understanding the changing narratives and geographies of citizenship.
Linda Houser is an Assistant Professor at Widener Universitys Center for Social Work Education. Her research interests include state and federal workforce policies and supports, child care subsidies, and employment and care-giving in families of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Rhys Jones is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University. He is a cultural and historical geographer who works on the geographies of the state and its related group identities. His books include People/States/Territories: The Political Geographies of British State Transformation (2007) and The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State (with Mark Whitehead and Martin Jones, 2007).
Maki Kimura is an Associate lecturer with the Open University and also teaches at University College London. Throughout her research career, she has engaged with the question of how differences and social exclusion based on class, gender, race and ethnicity, nationality and sexuality are constructed in contemporary global society, and how subjectivity and agency emerges in this process. She is currently exploring the role of emotion and affect in the concepts and practices of citizenship and also examining the decision making process on nuclear security policy in different political systems.
