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Power, Politics and the Emotions

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Power, Politics and the Emotions

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Power, Politics and the Emotions book

Impossible Governance?

Power, Politics and the Emotions

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Power, Politics and the Emotions book

Impossible Governance?
ByShona Hunter
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 17 June 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge-Cavendish
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203798041
Pages 226
eBook ISBN 9780203798041
Subjects Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Hunter, S. (2015). Power, Politics and the Emotions: Impossible Governance? (1st ed.). Routledge-Cavendish. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203798041

ABSTRACT

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters?

Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are sets of affective dynamics which complicate the already materially and symbolically contested terrain of policy-making. This relational politics is Shona Hunter’s starting point for a more hopeful, but realistic understanding of the limits and possibilities enacted through contemporary governing processes. Through this idea Hunter prioritises the everyday lived enactments of policy as a means to understand the state as a more differentiated and changeable entity than is often allowed for in current critiques of neoliberalism. But Hunter reminds us that focusing on lived realities demands a melancholic confrontation with pain, and the risks of social and physical death and violence lived through the contemporary neoliberal state. This is a state characterised by the ascendency of neoliberal whiteness; a state where no one is innocent and we are all responsible for the multiple intersecting exclusionary practices creating its unequal social orderings. The only way to struggle through the central paradox of governance to produce something different is to accept this troubling interdependence between resistance and reproduction and between hope and loss.

Analysing the everyday processes of this relational politics through original empirical studies in health, social care and education the book develops an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis which engages with and extends work in political science, cultural theory, critical race and feminist analysis, critical psychoanalysis and post-material sociology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part I|39 pages

Governance from a feminist psychosocial perspective

chapter 1|19 pages

Governing subjects, repression and equality

chapter 2|18 pages

Ordering differentiation: reconfiguring governance as relational politics

part II|144 pages

The relational politics of governance

part |142 pages

Preamble: Part II Reparative knowing

chapter 3|32 pages

Governing subjectivities: the politics of ontological detachment and relational connection

chapter 4|20 pages

The circulation and distribution of bad feeling

chapter 5|29 pages

Resisting the happy governmentalities of diversity

chapter 6|21 pages

Sustaining collective challenges to policy monoliths

chapter 7|24 pages

Equalities policy as relational hinterland

chapter 8|14 pages

Conclusions: mobilising hopeful fictions through differentiated uncertainties

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