| Description |
1 online resource (169 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics |
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Routledge research in place, space, and politics series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: psychological governance and public policy; Applying behavioural insights to public policy: a global agenda; The challenges of psychological governance; Conclusion: is psychological governance 'out to get you' or is it a set of neutral policy tools?; References; 2. The politics of silent citizenship: psychological government and the 'facts' of happiness; Bentham's silent utopia; Utilitarian infrastructures; The limits of 'political physics'; Note; References |
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3. Happiness as resource and resilience: an emotion for neoliberal timesHappiness, resilience and neoliberal governmentality; Positive psychology's looped resourcing; Risk, resilience and emotional life; Note; References; 4. Therapeutic governance of psycho-emotionally vulnerable citizens: new subjectivities, new experts and new dangers; Introduction; Universalizing vulnerability; New therapeutic forms of governance; New dangers; Conclusions; References; 5. Psychology as practical biopolitics; Introduction; Biopolitics and contemporary governance; Measuring the psyche |
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Implications for research, policy and practiceReferences; 6. 'What about the children?' Re-engineering citizens of the future; Introduction; Saving the children; The science of reform: strengthening British stock; Rescuing the infant brain; Back to the future? From risk to resilience; References; 7. The imperative to shape young brains: mindfulness as a neuroeducational intervention; Introduction: neuroscience and the "therapeutic turn" in education; The rising influence of the brain sciences in health and society; Translating brain data for clinical and public policy |
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The institution of neuroeducationMindfulness meditation as brain-based pedagogy; Adolescent neuroplasticity: teen brains "under construction"; Turning to philosophy, both West and East; Adolescents: broken by modern life; brains in flux; Plastic brain as ethical substance; A case in point: a hand model of the brain; Conclusion; References; 8. Behavioural science, randomised evaluations and the transformation of public policy: the case of the UK government; Evidence and policy in the UK; The behavioural sciences and government; The nudge unit and beyond; Randomised evaluations; Conclusion |
| Notes |
NoteReferences; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Political psychology.
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Political participation -- Psychological aspects
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Social psychology -- Political aspects
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Political participation -- Psychological aspects
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Political psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Rhys, 1971-
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Whitehead, Mark
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| ISBN |
9781317396598 |
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1317396596 |
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