{"product_id":"competing-responsibilities-susanna-trnka-9780822363606","title":"Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life","description":"Noting the pervasiveness of the adoption of \"responsibility\" as a core ideal of neoliberal governance, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eCompeting Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e challenge contemporary understandings and critiques of that concept in political, social, and ethical life. They reveal that neoliberalism's reification of the responsible subject masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives, from accountability, self-sufficiency, and prudence to care, obligation, and culpability. The essays-which combine social theory with ethnographic research from Europe, North America, Africa, and New Zealand-address a wide range of topics, including critiques of corporate social responsibility practices; the relationships between public and private responsibilities in the context of state violence; the tension between calls on individuals and imperatives to groups to prevent the transmission of HIV; audit culture; and how health is cast as a citizenship issue. \u003ci\u003eCompeting Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e allows for the examination of modes of responsibility that extend, challenge, or coexist with the neoliberal focus on the individual cultivation of the self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eBarry D. Adam, Elizabeth Anne Davis, Filippa Lentzos, Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski, Nikolas Rose, Rosalind Shaw, Cris Shore, Jessica M. Smith, Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle, Jarrett Zigon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susanna Trnka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822363607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822363606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2017","brand":"Susanna Trnka","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136173289727,"sku":"9780822363606","price":139.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0d9f2c4-8909-423e-b11a-895cbe721b0c.jpg?v=1770161001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/competing-responsibilities-susanna-trnka-9780822363606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}