Avowing Unemployment: Confessional Jobseeker Interviews and Professional CVs

While contemporary welfare processes have widely been analysed through the concepts of governmentality and pastoral power, this article diagnoses the dimension of confession or avowal within unemployment, job seeking and CV writing. This argument draws together the threads of Foucault’s work on con...

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Main Author: Tom Boland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CBS Open Journals 2021-06-01
Series:Foucault Studies
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Online Access:https://192.168.7.24:443/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/6256