Speaker: Professor John Clarke, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University
To download John Clarke's introduction click here (29 mins 45 sec)
About the talk:
As public services are reformed, modernised and reinvented, in what ways are our conceptions of the public being changed? This talk will explore some of the ways in which publics are being addressed - for example as active citizens, as diverse consumers, as communities, and as co-producers. What do such ideas of the public do to understandings of the publicness of public services?
About the speaker:
John Clarke works in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. For a long time, he has been obsessed by the politics of reforming welfare, nations and states. He has a particular interest in how both managerialism and consumerism have shaped the remaking of public services.
