Description: This book brings management and organisational theory into dialogue with political thought and philosophy. It explains the allure of managerialism in relation to contemporary ethical and political perplexities and shows how managerialism displaces the question of authority and...
Brief description: Anna Yeatman is a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also has practical experience in public policy. Her many publications include Postmodern Revisionings of the Political (2014), Individualiztion and the Delivery of Welfare Services (2009) and Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats (1990).
Review Quotes: "The Triumph of Managerialism is a most important and timely collection that addresses the complexities of managerialism considered as the 'mode of governance of the entire system of relationships that is constituted by the synthesis of neoliberalism, capitalism, and technologism'. Wide-ranging historical and analytical perspectives provide a demanding, indeed indispensable decipherment and critique of this totalising system of world control." --Richard Roberts, Visiting Emeritus Professor, University of Stirling