Governing (Through) Rights: Statistics as Technologies of Governmentality

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-155

  Sokhi Bulley, Bal ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Union; Foucault Fundamental Rights Agency; governance; governmentality; human rights; indicators; statistics; technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958727865     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663910391520     Document Type: Article

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