Contested Individualization: Debates About Contemporary Personhood Edited by Cosmo Howard Historical and contemporary debates about individualization are analyzed in this volume. It includes diverse contributions from class research, critical policy studies, life course methods, political theory, post-structuralism, psycho-social perspectives, queer theory, and social work. Many of the contributors critically engage with, and propose alternatives to, dominant neoliberal discourses of individualization. Cosmo Howard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and school of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He has published articles and chapters on a wide range of subjects within governance, public administration, and social policy, and is co-author of Social Policy, Public Policy: From Problem to practice (2001).