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The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137495280

ISBN: 978-1-349-50490-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 22, 2015

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Introduction

Hibou, Béatrice

Pages: 1 –11

[Alice is a nurse in the outpatients’ department of a major Paris hospital. Obviously, her work consists in looking after patients who turn up every morning at her surgery and are discharged in the evening, sometimes after an operation; but not all her work is like this, and not as often as she...
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What Is Neoliberal Bureaucracy?

Hibou, Béatrice

Pages: 13 –37

[This bureaucratic dimension of neoliberalism, even though it may appear paradoxical or indeed shocking from the point of view of current ideology, is familiar to specialists in the historical sociology of politics and to readers of the great classics of this discipline. Thus, the analysis of the...
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A Bureaucratized Society

Hibou, Béatrice

Pages: 39 –59

[Norms, rules, procedures, and formalities spread across the whole of “society, as such, in its fabric and its depth.”1 To some extent, they constitute the “new spirit” of neoliberalism.2 Before I unpick the logics and the political and social mainsprings of this bureaucratization, and...
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Market and Enterprise Bureaucracy at the Heart of the Neoliberal Art of Governing

Hibou, Béatrice

Pages: 61 –83

[As everyone knows, neoliberalism is not the same as laissez-faire. Those who have interpreted neoliberalism as an “intervening liberalism”1 have now produced a great deal ofwork that brings out this dimension; they talk in terms of “government at a distance,”2 of “entrepreneurial government” as...
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Neoliberal Bureaucratic Domination: Diffuse Control and the Production of Indifference

Hibou, Béatrice

Pages: 85 –110

[Once we have placed the blurred distinction between public and private at the heart of the way it works, and see formalities as lying at the center of its practices, it appears neither as an administrative arrangement nor as an institution, let alone an organizational structure, but as a social...
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Struggles and Breaches: Bureaucratization as the Site of Enunciation of the Political

Hibou, Béatrice

Pages: 111 –147

[As the examples of asylum seekers, the politics of compassion, research, and standards have suggested, bureaucratization is not something external to society. It unfolds through the actors who are targeted by it and who, consciously or not, play an active part in this process. The neoliberal art...

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