2014/2015  KAN-CSOCV1006U  Governmentality Studies: Diagnosing the Present

English Title

Governmentality Studies: Diagnosing the Present

Course information
Language	English
Course ECTS	7.5 ECTS
Type	Elective
Level	Full Degree Master
Duration	One Semester
Course period	Autumn
Timetable	Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Max. participants	100
Study board	Study Board for MSc of Social Science
Course coordinator
Mitchell Dean - MPP
Administration: Karina Ravn Nielsen, 3815 3782, electives.mpp@cbs.dk
Main academic disciplines
Philosophy and philosophy of science International Political Economy International Politics Communication Management Organization Political Science Political leadership, public management and international politics Economic and organizational sociology
Last updated on 08-04-2014

Learning objectives

Having followed the course, students are expected to: identify the sources, development and diffusion of governmentality and related concepts. demonstrate an overview of an increasingly hybridized field. illustrate the different ways and contexts in which governmentality is being used in empirical work. apply governmentality concepts in problem oriented research/assignment.

Examination

Governmentality Studies: Diagnosing the Present: Exam ECTS 7,5 Examination form Home assignment - written product Individual or group exam Individual Size of written product Max. 10 pages Assignment type Case based assignment Duration 48 hours to prepare Grading scale 7-step scale Examiner(s) One internal examiner Exam period December/January Make-up exam/re-exam Same examination form as the ordinary exam

Course content and structure

Over recent decades, Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, concerning the arts, rationalities and technologies of government by diverse agencies, has developed into an active research program and used across the social and political sciences. This course eluciates governmentality above all as analytical strategy that can be applied to all kinds of governing of individuals and collectives by different actors and agencies include public, private and hybrid ones.  It discusses case studies of how it has been used in organizational studies, management, social and public policy, and so on. It examines how it is used in conjunction with other approaches (from post-Marxism to actor-network theory) and its more recent recent diffusion and dispersion as a research program.  The latter can take the forms of its application and development in new fields (e.g. international relations, security studies, risk, financialisation), and has given rise to different versions of governmentality studies, including constructivist and realist ones. The course aims to be an overview of governmentality as it operates today through a number of different approaches. These approaches concern such concrete examples as the government of risk and catastrophe, liberalism and neoliberalism, new forms of finance, the management of events, EU studies and international and security studies.

Teaching methods

Lectures and various forms of student participation as appropriate.

Further Information

Changes in course schedule may occur Monday 09.50-12.25, week 36-41, 43-46

Expected literature

Mitchell Dean (2010) Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. Second edition. London: Sage. Compendium.