Nikolas Rose
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Nikolas Rose (born 1947) is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist. He is currently acting as James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Director of BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society.
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| Born | 1947 (age 60–61) United Kingdom |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Employers | London School of Economics |
| Title | Martin White Professor of Sociology & Director, BIOS Research Centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society |
Originally trained as a biologist, he has done extensive work on the history and sociology of psychiatry, on mental health policy and risk, and on the social implications of recent developments in psychopharmacology. He has also published widely on the genealogy of subjectivity, on the history of empirical thought in sociology, and on changing rationalities of political power. For six years he was managing editor of Economy and Society, one of the UK’s leading interdisciplinary journal of social science, and he is now co-editor of BioSocieties: An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences.
In 1989, he founded the History of the Present Research Network, an international network of researchers whose work was influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault. Together with Paul Rabinow, he recently edited the Fourth Volume of Michel Foucault's Essential Works. (See also governmentality for a description of Rose’s interpretations of Foucault’s writings).
In December 2001, he was listed by the Guardian Newspaper as one of the top five UK based social scientists, on the basis of a twenty year analysis of citations to research papers, and the most cited UK based sociologist.
He has been recently awarded an ESRC Professorial Research Fellowship for a three year project entitled 'Brain, Self and Society in the 21st Century'. The Economic and Social Research Council ESRC is the UK's largest funding agency for research and postgraduate training relating to social and economic issues.
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[edit] Selected publications
[edit] Books
- The Psychological Complex: Psychology, Politics and Society in England, 1869-1939 (Routledge, 1984)
- Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (Routledge, 1989, Second Edition, Free Association Press, 1999)
- Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
- Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- The Politics of Life Itself : Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2006).
His work has been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish.
[edit] Selected chapters in edited collections
- ‘Writing the History of the Present’, in Jonathan Joseph, ed., Social Theory: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 (with Andrew Barry and Thomas Osborne) (Reprint of selections from Introduction to Foucault and Political Reason, 1996.)
- Biological Citizenship, in Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, pp. 439-463. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 (with Carlos Novas)
- Introduction to The Essential Foucault : Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, New York: New Press, 2004 (with Paul Rabinow)
- Becoming Neurochemical Selves, in Nico Stehr, ed. Biotechnology, Commerce And Civil Society, Transaction Press, 2004
- The neurochemical self and its anomalies, in R. Ericson, ed, Risk and Morality, pp. 407-437. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
- Power and psychological techniques, in Y. Bates and R. House, eds. Ethically Challenged Professions, pp. 27-46. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS books, 2003.
- Society, madness, and control, in A. Buchanan, ed., The Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community, pp. 3-25, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2001)
- At Risk of Madness, in T. Baker and J. Simon, Embracing Risk, pp. 209-237, Chicago: Chicago University Press (2001)
[edit] Selected papers in refereed journals
- Spatial Phenomenotechnics: Making space with Charles Booth and Patrick Geddes, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2004, 22: 209-228 (Thomas Osborne).
- Neurochemical selves, Society, November/December 2003, 41, 1, 46-59.
- 'Kontroll', Fronesis, 2003, Nr. 14-15, 82-101.
- The politics of life itself, Theory, Culture and Society (2001), 18(6): 1-30.
- Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual, Economy and Society Special Issue on configurations of risk (2000), 29 (4): 484-513. (with Carlos Novas).
- The biology of culpability: pathological identities in a biological culture, Theoretical Criminology (2000), 4, 1, 5-34.
