Abstract:
In this paper I discuss notions of agency, drawing on my doctoral work examining certain discourses/practices of crisis in education. I talk about my argument that discourses/practices of crisis are key contemporary governmental tactics, and explain the way I resolved the dilemma of accounting for the wilful individual within a framework which rejects the liberal-humanist notion of the Subject. My purpose in presenting this paper is to stimulate discussion and attract feedback about this line of thinking.