Governance replaces free subjects with managed, responsibilized ones

Evidence

The transformation of economic actors and action by governance such that teamwork, responsibilization, and stakeholder consensus replace individual interest; the shift, in short from a neoliberal discourse of free subjects to a discourse featuring more explicitly governed, “responsibilized,” and managed subjects. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 138

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fixes the key term ‘responsibilization’ as a shift from free to governed subjects.
• XREF: connects to: Governance by incentives and benchmarks replaces top-down law and rule — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 56; Governance replaces justice and right with efficiency and efficacy. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 253; Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 153 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Governance replaces justice and right with efficiency and efficacy. #expands (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 253
• Self-help ideology reframed governance as molding habits rather than granting rights. #expands (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 352
• Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination #expands (0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 153
• Economization and governance replace political contestation with managerial consensus. #expands (0.76) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 409
• Social policy reifies iconic citizen types into fixed subject positions #expands (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2277
• A distinct managerial class merged government and corporate power within capitalism #expands (0.72) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 902