Joel Rasmussen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joel Rasmussen plays a role.

Articles

This chapter introduces a governmentality approach to issues of risk and safety, and carves out an analytical framework that combines it with appraisal analysis. From the perspective of governmentality, responsibilisation is the social process whereby actors assign/assume various moral duties… read more
Rasmussen, Joel 2016 Governing safe operations at a distance: Enacting responsible risk communication at workStudies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods, McIlvenny, Paul, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard (eds.), pp. 179–208 | Article
This chapter argues that today’s organisational risk management, where employees are to adopt routines for proper self-control, is fruitfully approached as what Rose and Miller (1992) term governing-at-a-distance. Governing that relies on internal control and the self-governing capacity of citizens… read more