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This workshop session is one of the three series ( Reclaiming Good Government in the face of the Competition State, Neoliberalism and Managerialism) which are led by Professor Anna Yeatman from University of Western Sydney.

This workshop session is one of the three series ( Reclaiming Good Government in the face of the Competition State, Neoliberalism and Managerialism) which are led by Professor Anna Yeatman from University of Western Sydney.

This series of workshops will address topics of broad interdisciplinary interest in both LUMS and FASS. Academics, PhD and Masters students are warmly invited. Themes will cover, among others, questions concerning neoliberal political philosophy, its intersection with and difference from managerialism; the implications of the Competition State for the autonomy of political society; the impact of managerialism and neoliberalism on professionalism; professionalism as something other than expertise, as the stewardship of distinctive human/public goods; and the question of the future possibilities for good government.

Anna Yeatman, FASSA, is a Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. Her background is in political and social thought, and she has led public policy evaluations in the human services. Recent publications include: (co-edited with Bogdan Costea) The Triumph of Managerialism? New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value (forthcoming Rowan & Littlefield); (co-edited with Peg Birmingham) The Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights, Bloomsbury, 2014; ‘A two-person conception of freedom: the significance of Jessica Benjamin’s idea of intersubjectivity’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 15:1, 2015, 3-23; and ‘Feminism and the Technological Age’, Australian Feminist Studies, 29:79, 2014: 85-100. She is also a Feldenkrais practitioner, having graduated Jeff Haller’s Victoria BC training in 2007.