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Kaspar Villadsen

Kaspar Villadsen
Associate professor , PhD
Kaspar Villadsen

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Porcelænshaven 18B
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3649
Cell phone: +45 2721 3264
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: kv.lpf@cbs.dk



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The ’epistemology’ of welfare policy:
  •  the historical formation of the objects of welfare policy and their current transformation
  •  how objects of government are construed through the discourse and communications of welfare  organisations.
  •  Working conditions, cooperation and mechanisms of exclusion in modern welfare organisations.
Welfare Management, Transformations of Welfare States, Public Management, Social Policy.
Governmentality, Critical organization studies, New forms of management, Social technologies.
Foucault, Governmentality studies, Systems theory, Organization Theory, Post Structural Theory 

Primary research areas

  • Welfare policy
  • Discourse analysis, Genealogy, Foucault
  • Systems theory, organisational analysis, Luhmann
  • General sociological theory, Theories of power
  • Social policy, Social work, integration/exclusion
  • The ’epistemology’ of welfare policy


Selected publications

International publications
  • Dean, M. & Villadsen, K. "State phobia, Civil Society and a Certain Vitalism", in: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (under 2. review).
  • Villadsen, K. (2011) "Modern Welfare and 'Good Old' Philanthropy: A forgotten or a troubling trajectory?", in: Public Management Review, no. 13, vol. 8. (forthcoming)
  • Villadsen, K. (2011) "Ambigious Citizenship: Modern and postmodern welfare at the margins", in: Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 12(3) (forthcoming).
  • Kampmann, N., Thygesen, N. & Villadsen, K.”Poststructuralist Concepts of Technology: An introduction”, in N. Thygesen (ed.) The Illusion of Control: A systems theoretical approach to managerial technologies, London: Palgrave (Forthcoming).
  • Villadsen, K. (2011) “Neo-Philanthropy”, in: Social Work and Society, vol 9, no. 2, online journal.
  • Ratner, H. & Villadsen, K. (2011) "Who Is the Monster? Suspension of power and the politics of circulation", in: N. Å. Andersen (ed.) Hybrid Forms of Governing, London: Sage (forthcoming).
  • Villadsen, K. (2010) "Governmentality", in: M. Tadajewski, P. Maclaran, E. Persons & M. Parker (eds.) Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies. London: Sage Publications.
  • Villadsen, K. (2009) "The 'Human Touch': Voluntary organizations as rescuers of social policy?", in: Public Management Review, no. 2, vol. 11.
  • Villadsen, K. (2009) "Religious Care and Social Citizenship: The Ambiguous Return of Philanthropy", in: T. Wyller (ed.) The Heterotopic Citizen. Göttingen: Vandenhöcke & Ruprecht.
  • Villadsen, K. & Wyller, T. (2009) "From the Spatial Heterotopos to the Deterritorialised (Heterotopic) Hope", in: T. Wyller (ed.) The Heterotopic Citizen. Göttingen: Vandenhöcke & Ruprecht.
Books
  • Dean, M. & Villadsen, K.: Statsfobi og civilsamfund, Frederiksberg: Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne (forthcoming).
  • Sløk, C. & Villadsen, K. (red.) (2008) Velfærdsledelse i den selvstyrende velfærdsstat, København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
  • Mik-Meyer, N. & Villadsen, K.(2007) Magtens former: Sociologiske perspektiver på statens møde med borgeren, København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
  • Bjerg, O. & Villadsen, K. (red) (2006) Sociologiske metoder: Fra teori til analyse i kvalitative og kvantitative studier, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur.
Full publication list (pdf)



Last updated by Anje Schmidt 18/04/2012