The Worthy Human Being as Prosuming Subject: ‘Projectified Selves’ in Emancipatory Project Studies

• Published in: Project management journal Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 367 - 377
• Main Authors: Berglund, Karin, Lindgren, Monica, Packendorff, Johann
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Business Studies; enterprise culture; entrepreneurial self; Företagsekonomi; Industrial Economics and Management; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; neoliberalism; projectification; projectified self; prosumption; worth; projectification; entrepreneurial self; prosumption; neoliberalism; projectified self; enterprise culture; worth

The projectified self is suggested in this article as a way to advance emancipatory project studies toward improved understandings of how individuals in contemporary neoliberal societies are urged to become self-controlling, self-improving, self-commercializing, life-compartmentalizing, and deadline...