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The bureaucratization of the world in the neoliberal era, an international and comparative perspective, Béatrice Hibou ; translated by Andrew Brown

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The bureaucratization of the world in the neoliberal era, an international and comparative perspective, Béatrice Hibou ; translated by Andrew Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-223) and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bureaucratization of the world in the neoliberal era

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

892888163

Responsibility statement

Béatrice Hibou ; translated by Andrew Brown

Series statement

Sciences Po series in international relations and political economy

Sub title

an international and comparative perspective

Summary

At the point where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault, Béatrice Hibou analyzes the political dynamics underlying a set of norms, rules, and procedures that form contemporary beurocracy. Neoliberal bureaucracy is a vector of discipline and control: even more, it produces social and political indifference. Under the pretext of depoliticization, this trend cannot hide the exercise of normalizing and excluding power. Bureaucratization is not something external to society: it unfolds through the very same actors who are its target and who, consciously or not, play an essential role in this process. Operating as it does through individuals, bureaucratization does not come 'from above': it is a much wider process of 'bureaucratic participation', a response to the need to voice material and vested interests and give answers to legitimate demands, as well as expressing the quest for efficiency, but it also reflects day-to-day conflicts and negotiations between actors. In this way, bureaucratic participation is constructed through power relations, and paradoxically relies on informalities that alone make the neoliberal art of government possible.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- What is neoliberal bureaucracy? -- A bureaucratized society -- Market and enterprise bureaucracy at the heart of the neoliberal art of governing -- Neoliberal bureaucratic dominance: diffuse control and the production of indifference -- Struggles and breaches: bureaucratization as the site of enunciation of the political

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