... This chapter asks, “how can the concepts of responsibility and responsibilization shed light on changing forms of governance and power?” Drawing on ethnographic examples from Britain and New Zealand, I examine how discourses of responsibility operate in government policy agendas and show how...

... corporations to offer themselves up as solutions to problems they help to define. This governance partially responsibilizes individuals and communities impacted by industry, attempting to cultivate entrepreneurial subjects. Criticizing the responsibilization framework, communities frequently invoke...

... responsibility care social contracts social ethics responsibilization ...

... audit culture responsibilization managerialism New Zealand Britain ...

... mining corporate social responsibility social movements responsibilization ...

... audit culture responsibilization managerialism New Zealand Britain ...

... political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... Assumptions about the intrinsic value of self-responsibility increasingly pervade social life, underpinning new forms of governance, subjectivities, and collective relations. Despite, however, the pervasive and diverse deployments of neoliberal rhetorics of responsibilization, in everyday...

... In this essay I consider the relation between ontological starting points, harm reduction, and responsibilization. I begin with a brief discussion of the dominant “modern form of ontology” and its relation to familiar notions of morality and biopolitics. I then consider what I call the typical...

...States, Companies, and Communities In this essay I consider the relation between ontological starting points, harm reduction, and responsibilization. I begin with a brief discussion of the dominant “modern form of ontology” and its relation to familiar notions of morality and biopolitics. I...

...Intimate Ties This chapter asks, “how can the concepts of responsibility and responsibilization shed light on changing forms of governance and power?” Drawing on ethnographic examples from Britain and New Zealand, I examine how discourses of responsibility operate in government policy agendas...

... politics. ethic of responsibility technologies of citizenship self-governance insecurity resilience In this essay I consider the relation between ontological starting points, harm reduction, and responsibilization. I begin with a brief discussion of the dominant “modern form of ontology...

... Engaging in theories of responsibilization, this chapter seeks to demonstrate the often intimate links between responsibilization and biopolitical claims of dependency, blame, helplessness, and culpability, and to show responsibility’s complex relationship with practices of irresponsibilization...

... communities to protect themselves and each other. The health sector adopted a similar discourse compatible with a long-standing tradition of biomedical individualism by calling upon people as rational, calculating actors in a field of risk. The limits and side effects of the responsibilizing paradigm...

... the rise of psychologized, individualized models of “everyday expertise” aimed at “responsibilizing” citizens, and the growing rationalization and “informationalization” of everyday life, the chapter examines how culturally inflected forms of expertise and expert practices speak to the specificity...