ABSTRACT
The first English version of Foucault’s (1979a) lecture ‘On governmentality’ appeared in the journal Ideology and Consciousness in 1979. Over the course of the next decade, the influence of this essay became visible in sociological studies of disciplines in the human sciences and their connections to practices of subject formation (Dean 1999, 1). Papers and books by Miller (1987), Miller and Rose (1986; 1990) and Rose (1985; 1988; 1990), for example, brought Foucauldian perspectives to bear on ‘psy’ sciences, accountancy, auditing and the government of the economy. These studies explored how diverse and disparate projects sought to govern the conduct of others and to foster individual practices of self-government.
