Lecture: Governmentality & Risk April 25, 2006

The Anderson Schools of Management Department of Accounting presents the first in a series of guest lectures around the subject of risk.

Professor Pat O?Malley, Canada Research Chair in Criminology & Criminal Justice, Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and Adjunct Research Professor in Law at Carleton University, Ottawa, will speak on ?Governmentality and Risk? on Tuesday APR 25.

?Governmentality? is an analytical framework that interprets governmental activity in terms of how its planners mentally constitute their concerns as certain kinds of problem, and in consequence develop technologies and techniques to deal with their vision. In this approach, 'risk' does not appear as a real property of events, but as one way of thinking about and governing them - largely in terms of distributions and probabilities. Governmentality explores how such imaginative activity creates new realities with real consequences. Prof. O?Malley?s presentation will examine the contours of the governmental approach to risk, and consider the nature and adequacy of some of its principle claims, as well as those of its critics.

Official Website: http://news.mgt.unm.edu/default.asp#RISK