Behaviour change policy agendas for 'vulnerable' subjectivities: the dangers of therapeutic governance and its new entrepreneurs

• Published in: Journal of education policy Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 48 - 62
• Main Author: Ecclestone, Kathryn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.01.2017
• Subjects: Anxiety; Behavior Change; Correlation; Critical analysis; Democracy; Educational Legislation; Educational Policy; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Countries; Governance; Intervention; Mental Disorders; neo-liberalism; Neurosciences; Philosophy; policy discourse; Prevention; Terrorism; Therapy; Well Being; United Kingdom

Apocalyptic crisis discourses of mental health problems and psycho-emotional dysfunction are integral to behaviour change agendas across seemingly different policy arenas. Bringing these agendas together opens up new theoretical and empirical lines of enquiry about the symbioses and contradictions s...