Paul du Gay as plenary speaker at the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference

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 November, 2011. This event involved participants in the Public-Private Platform research project ‘The Stateless State? Re-thinking state/ society relations in an era of ‘network’ governance’. The speakers were:

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