1. Introduction

I. Analyzing Privatization

2. Three Faces of Privatization

3. Big Government Against Social Responsibility: A Vulnerability Critique of Privatization’s Public Priorities

4. Rethinking Responsibility in Private Law

5. In the Land of Choice: Privatized Reality and Contractual Vulnerability

II. Privatization and Corporatization

6. Entrepreneurial Subjectivity, the Privatization of Risk, and the Ethics of Vulnerability

7. Privatizing Hoodia: Patent Ownership, Benefit Sharing, and Indigenous Knowledge in Southern Africa

8. Credit Counselling in Canada: An Empirical Examination

9. Privatizing and Corporatizing the University: A U.S. and UK Comparison

III. Privatization of Public Services

10. Freedom of Choice over Equality as Objective for the Swedish Welfare State? The Latest Debate on Choice in Education

11. Privatization in the Human Services: Impact on the Front Lines and the Ground Floor

12. Still a responsive state?

13. E-government for the distribution of public services in Sweden: Privatization, Vulnerability and Social Responsibility reshaped

14. What does privatization mean for women in Uganda?

IV. Privatization of the Coercive Power of the State

15. The Human Right to Dignity and Commodification of Prisoners: Considering Worldwide Challenges to Prison Privatization

16. Gendered Aspects of Privatizing Force in Counterinsurgent Warfare

17. Harmed selves harming others ? A vulnerability approach to the criminal justice system