The confessional model is increasingly being used as a vehicle of risk management in the global service and knowledge-based economy. Thus, in preventive and remedial healthcare, in education, banking and insurance, prospective services’ end-users are required to ‘confess’ a number of present and past aspects of their lives, those of family members and of relevant associates. Particularly in the case of banking and insurance, the farther one strays from ‘the norm’, the greater the chances of being pathologised and financially or socially penalised.
The stakes may be low to medium to high, as well as personal and national.
Consider if and to what extent it is relevant to you at this moment in time to have your car insured or getting a home loan: There are people who would…
