TY - JOUR
T1 - Making government liquid
T2 - Shifts in governance using financialisation as a political device
AU - Tuck, P.
AU - du Gay, P.
AU - Millo, Y.
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - The financialised character of contemporary rationalities of public governance has been the subject of increased attention within a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. With this paper we propose a particular analytical framework, focused on the notion of 'governance devices', for understanding the processes that underpin financialised governance and, more fundamentally, maintain the connections between markets and politics. Deploying three distinct cases, we indicate that these devices transcend divisions between the actor and the device and create a diff erent form of agency- an assemblage. We argue that understanding such assemblages-their emergence, activity, and, frequently, their failures-opens a window on analysing the nature of contemporary forms of financialised governance as a technosocial system. In so doing we suggest that the governance devices approach can off er a way of challenging contemporary governance orthodoxies, retracing governments' lost responsibilities and resurfacing their 'core tasks'.
AB - The financialised character of contemporary rationalities of public governance has been the subject of increased attention within a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. With this paper we propose a particular analytical framework, focused on the notion of 'governance devices', for understanding the processes that underpin financialised governance and, more fundamentally, maintain the connections between markets and politics. Deploying three distinct cases, we indicate that these devices transcend divisions between the actor and the device and create a diff erent form of agency- an assemblage. We argue that understanding such assemblages-their emergence, activity, and, frequently, their failures-opens a window on analysing the nature of contemporary forms of financialised governance as a technosocial system. In so doing we suggest that the governance devices approach can off er a way of challenging contemporary governance orthodoxies, retracing governments' lost responsibilities and resurfacing their 'core tasks'.
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U2 - 10.1068/c11290
DO - 10.1068/c11290
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872814937
SN - 0263-774X
VL - 30
SP - 1083
EP - 1099
JO - Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
JF - Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
IS - 6
ER -