Governing the Self

Governing the Self is about the constitution of the self. Through self-constitution, the subject is implicated in its own governance within a discourse that is increasingly shaped by neoliberal economic theory. Managerialism has become the modern mode of discipline for self production-an inadequate model for education in that the subject of managerialism, homo economicus, cannot adequately account for the 'other' in the educational relation. Michel Foucault's notion of governmentality is used to unravel the problematic connection between education and economics in the production of human capital. This book does not reject managerialism outright, calling instead for its disciplinary force to be delimited and some attention paid to the 'other' in the pedagogic relationship.

Patrick Fitzsimons has been engaged in education since his days as a young teacher in New Zealand. A pioneer at his craft, he explores the new, queries convention, and challenges authority. His doctoral research focused on the work of Michel Foucault in relation to education, an interest that he developed through his short but intense academic career. With a long list of publications and professional affiliations, his last appointment was at James Cook University.

Acknowledgments	p. .vii
Foreword
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Managerialism	p. 4
Public sector management	p. 7
Managerialism in education	p. 8
	p. 10
Why Foucault?	p. 14
The Rationale for Reform	p. 19
The dominant discourse	p. 19
Technologies of domination	p. 22
Oppositional discourse	p. 24
Changes to the self through the mode of information	p. 27
Metaphysical Sources of the Self	p. 31
The Platonic self	p. 31
The Renaissance self	p. 32
The modern self	p. 34
The dialectic and the rise of individual conscience	p. 38
The mediation of the self through language	p. 40
The Enlightenment Self	p. 43
What is Enlightenment?	p. 43
Challenges to the Enlightenment self	p. 46
HeideggerÆs notion of self (Dasein)	p. 49
A sense of futility	p. 50
Technologies of Domination	p. 51
Power	p. 51
Foucault and the epistemes	p. 53
Sovereign power	p. 56
From the monarchy to the modern state	p. 58
From public spectacle to confinement	p. 59
Normalization and disciplinary knowledge	p. 62
Technologies of Self	p. 67
Knowing vs. caring for oneself	p. 68
The rational autonomous self	p. 71
FoucaultÆs way out	p. 76
An ethic of self	p. 80
Governmentality	p. 85
The arts of government	p. 85
Theories of State	p. 92
Governing the Self
Liberalism and neoliberalism	p. 93
Governmentality	p. 101
Governance and discipline	p. 102
A Genealogy of Managerialism	p. 107
The context of capitalism	p. 107
The discourses	p. 110
Principles of managerialism	p. 120
Illusions of freedom	p. 123
The Management of Human Capital	p. 125
Human capital theory	p. 126
Bio-power	p. 129
The management of busno-power	p. 131
The management of education	p. 134
The management of growth	p. 139
The management of the State	p. 145
A Poststructuralist Critique of Managerialism	p. 149
The rational subject of managerialism	p. 149
An analytics of preference	p. 152
Rationality, choice and autonomy	p. 156
The subject of consumption	p. 159
The subject of work	p. 163
A Poststructuralist Critique of the Subject	p. 165
Poststructuralism	p. 165
The mode of information	p. 166
The management of autonomy	p. 170
Construction of self through language as practice	p. 171
Managing oneself	p. 174
Implications for education	p. 179
Futures	p. 185
Poststructuralist possibilities	p. 192
References	p. 197
Index	p. 205
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