Governance and Failure: On the Limits of Sociology

z wprowadzeniem Boba Jessopa

Authors

  • Jeff Malpas Murdoch University in Perth
  • Gary Wickham Murdoch University in Perth

Keywords:

governance, failure, system of governance, practice of governance, object, assemblage, Foucault

Abstract

Failure is an ubiquitous and central feature of social life. Yet much sociological inquiry focuses not on failure but on success. This paper adopts a sceptical approach to sociological theory, advancing an account of the necessary limits of sociological inquiry and defending the idea of the primacy of failure on two fronts: first, through the examination of a sociological approach currently developing around the Foucaultian idea of ‘governmentality’; and second, through a more general philosophical consideration of the connections between failure and practices of governance or control.

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Published

2010-03-29

Issue

Section

Selection of classic texts

How to Cite

Malpas, J., & Wickham, G. (2010). Governance and Failure: On the Limits of Sociology: z wprowadzeniem Boba Jessopa. Journal of Public Governance, 11(1), 89-102. https://publicgovernance.pl/zpub/article/view/151