Self as Enterprise: Dilemmas of Control and Resistance in Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 55-77

  Mcnay, Lois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

enterprise; neoliberalism; ordoliberalism; resistance; rights discourse; self realization

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249117090     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276409347697     Document Type: Article

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