Plenary session: A New State Turn? Security, Society and Sovereignty after Poststructuralism

Plenary session at the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, NSW the 30th of November, 2011. This event involves participants in the Public-Private Platform research project ‘The Stateless State? Re-thinking state/ society relations in an era of ‘network’ governance’. The speakers are:

• Grahame Thompson: Reflections on the 'Liberal State': Do we still need it?

• Paul du Gay: Re-Instating an Ethic of Office

• Alan Scott: From Governance to Government

• Mitchell Dean: The Revenge of the Social