GOVERNING CITIZENS GOVERNING CITIZENS FRISO VAN HOUDT
Governing Citizens is about the striking changes in the government of migration, crime and citizenship in the Netherlands over the past thirty years. The dissertation is based on a reconstruction of Foucault’s governmentality lectures. Citizenship is studied from a governmentality perspective as a technique that functions in relation to other techniques of sovereignty, discipline and government. Hence, it is related to mushrooming detention facilities, parenting courses, assimilation, selective incapacitation, responsibilization and other techniques invented to govern contemporary predicaments of control. The book presents new concepts to understand the present government of citizens such as neoliberal communitarianism, the migration control predicament, and the distinction between FRISO VAN HOUDT facilitative resonsibilization and repressive responsibilization. It raises one question in the end: do we want to govern (non-)citizens the way we do?
Friso van Houdt (1983) studied criminology and sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He has published in a variety of international journals. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology (EUR).
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GOVERNMENTALITY IN NEDERLAND De hedendaagse bestuursmentaliteit in relatie tot burgerschap, criminaliteit en migratie
PROEFSCHRIFT
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam op gezag van de
Prof.dr. H.A.P. Pols
en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op vrijdag 9 mei 2014 om 11.30uur
door
FRISO VAN HOUDT
geboren te Zoetermeer Promotiecommissie
Promotoren Prof.dr. W. Schinkel Prof.dr. H.B. Entzinger