TY  - UNPB
M1  - Doctoral
PB  - UCL (University College London)
Y1  - 2022/09/28/
A1  - Kerr, Sarah-Jane
N2  - This thesis is a Foucauldian genealogy of Wealtherty with a focus on policy. I first establish what Wealtherty is ? a state of soaring wealth inequality along with democratically damaging levels of contagion between financial and political power. Then I trace moments of descent and emergence in the 18th and 19th century.  I situate this ?critical and effective? history in the context of what I suggest are parallel governmental dispositions of scrutiny towards the poor and ignorance or dis-interest towards the rich. I describe how these operate today and describe some ?awkward continuities? with the past.

Section 1 (chapters 3-6) answers the questions ?What have we become??, and ?How have we become what we are?? (Tamboukou 1999). I use history to shed light on our present predicament, through an analytics of government (Dean 2010), taking government in a broad sense to mean the conduct of conduct. Against the axes of episteme, techne, visual field and identity formation, I look at situations in which conduct is conducted to establish and sustain authority, continuing my critical historical approach and using a range of contemporary and historical sources.  

Section 2 (chapters 7&8) addresses the questions, ?What practices and processes sustain the state we are in?? I consider how the state of Wealtherty is sustained in our now through knowledge networks, and through unequal epistemic relations established and sustained in policy discourse. I end with some ideas for remedy and ?ways out? of our ?intolerable? (Ball & Collet-Sabe 2021), unequal present through a Wealtherty manifesto.
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EP  - 321
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ID  - discovery10155051
TI  - A Genealogy of Wealtherty through the Lens of Social Policy
SP  - 1
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155051/
ER  -