Governmentality : Current Issues and Future Challenges.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, this book explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. It highlights the differences as well as possible convergences wi...

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Main Author: Brckling, Ulrich
Other Authors: Krasmann, Susanne, Lemke, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Series:Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contents; 1 From Foucault's Lectures atthe Collge de France to Studies of Governmentality: An Introduction; 2 Relocating the Modern State: Governmentality and the History of Political Ideas; 3 Constituting Another Foucault Effect: Foucault on States and Statecraft; 4 Governmentalization of the State: Rousseau's Contribution to the Modern History of Governmentality; 5 Government Unlimited: The Security Dispositif of Illiberal Governmentality; 6 The Right of Government: Torture and the Rule of Law.
  • 7 Foucault and Frontiers: Notes on the Birth of the Humanitarian Border8 Beyond Foucault: From Biopolitics to the Government of Life; 9 Coming Back to Life: An Anthropological Reassessment of Biopolitics and Governmentality; 10 The Birth of Lifestyle Politics: The Biopolitical Management of Lifestyle Diseases in the United States and Denmark; 11 Biology, Citizenship and the Government of Biomedicine: Exploring the Concept of Biological Citizenship; 12 Human Economy.