Remaking governancePeoples, politics and the public sphere

Abstract

This book focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies — active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, and consumerism — encounter existing institutions. It explores different sites and practices of governing, from the remaking of Europe to the increasing focus on ‘community’ and ‘personhood’ in governing social life. The authors critically engage with existing theory across political science, social policy, sociology, and public administration and management to explore how ‘the social’ is constituted through governance practices. This includes the ways in which the spaces and territories of governing are remade and the peoples constituted; how the public domain is re-imagined and new forms of state–citizen relationships fostered; how the remaking of governance shapes our understanding of politics, and changes the ways in which citizens engage with political power and the selves they bring to that engagement.

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