Pykett / Jones / Whitehead Psychological Governance and Public Policy

Governing the mind, brain and behaviour
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-39660-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

There have been significant developments in the state of psychological, neuroscientific and behavioural scientific knowledge relating to the human mind, brain, action and decision-making over the past two decades. Little attention has been paid to examining the wider political and ethical significance of the wide-spread use of psychological governance techniques. There is a pressing and recognised need to address the behaviour change agenda in relation to how our cultural ideas about the brain, mind, behaviour and self are changing.

This book provides a critical account of existing forms of psychological governance in relation to public policy. With contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences, chapters identify practical and political challenges posed by the current policy enthusiasm for particular branches of affective neuroscience, behavioural economics, positive psychology and happiness economics. The core focus of this book is to investigate the ways in which ‘psychological resilience’ has become an ideal archetype for individual, community and national wellbeing or flourishing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pykett, Jessica

Jones, Rhys Dafydd

Jones, Rhys

Whitehead, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Psychological Governance and Public Policy Jessica Pykett, Mark Whitehead and Rhys Jones 2. The Politics of Silent Citizenship: Psychological government and the ‘facts’ of happiness William Davies 3. Happiness as Resource and Resilience: An Emotion for Neoliberal Times Sam Binkley 4. Therapeutic governance of psycho-emotionally vulnerable citizens: new subjectivities, new experts and new dangers Kathryn Ecclestone 5. Psychology as Practical Biopolitics The Midlands Psychology Group (John Cromby, Bob Diamond, Paul Kelly, Paul Moloney, Penny Priest and Jan Soffe-Caswell) 6. ‘What about the children?’ Re-engineering citizens of the future Val Gillies and Rosalind Edwards 7. Boosting the teenage brain: mindfulness as a neuroeducational tool for adolescent resilience Suparna Choudhury 8. Behavioural science, randomized evaluations and the transformation of public policy: The case of the UK government Peter John