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Book Synopsis‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population.
Trade Review‘[T]he originality of this book is located in its thoroughgoing dismantling of the health and social care system. Little escapes Brown and Baker’s examination. […] [A] a refreshing departure from traditional economic and political accounts of neoliberalism.’ —Cherry M. Miller, ‘Political Studies Review’
‘The strength of the book is that it tries to reveal how a new and similar rationality is emerging in individuals and different spheres of society simultaneously.’ —Per H. Jensen, ‘Journal of Social Policy’
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Individualism, Neoliberalism and the Imperatives of Personal Governance; 3. Individualism in Healthcare; 4. Enlisting, Measuring and Shaping the Individual in Healthcare Policy and Practice; 5. Mental Health and Personal Responsibility; 6. Responsibility in Therapy and the Therapeutic State; 7. The Punitive Turn in Public Services: Coercing Responsibility; 8. Thinking about Ourselves; 9. Talking Citizenship into Being; References; Index
