Beschreibung:
Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance, exercised by customer oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.
Introduction: governing affects. 1 On feeling, emotion, and affect: clarifying the concepts in a broad research field. 2 Affective governance, affective governmentality, and affective capital: a theoretical perspective on the transformation of work, governance, and the state. 3 Neoliberal affective transformation of key social fields. 4 Affective labour: neoliberal transformations of paid labour and bureaucratic work. 5 Neoliberal affective governmentality: empirical evidence. Conclusions.