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Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

Author : Majia Holmer Nadesan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135903581
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life written by Majia Holmer Nadesan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war on terror. This book is designed for readers interested in a rigorous, comprehensive introduction to the wide array of interdisciplinary work focusing on Foucault, biopower and governmentality. However, Nadesan does not merely reproduce existing literatures but also responds to implicit critiques made by Cultural Studies and Marxist scholarship concerning identity politics, political economy, and sovereign force and disciplinary control. Using concrete examples and detailed illustrations throughout, this book extends the extant literature on governmentality and biopower and helps shape our understanding of everyday life under neoliberalism.

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Author : Shelley Tremain
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472036386
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Foucault and the Government of Disability written by Shelley Tremain and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection

A Foucault for the 21st Century

Author : Sam Binkley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443804665
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A Foucault for the 21st Century written by Sam Binkley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How relevant is Foucault’s social thought to the world we inhabit today? This collection comprises several essays considering the contemporary relevance of the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault is best remembered for his historical inquiries into the origins of “disciplinary” society in a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, it seems that today, under the conditions of global modernity, the relevance of his ideas are called into question. With the increasing ubiquity of markets, the break up of centralized states and the dissolution of national boundaries, together with new scientific and political discourses on biological life, the world of today seems far removed from the bounded, disciplinary societies Foucault described in his most famous books. Yet in recent years, it has become apparent that Foucault’s thoughts on modern society have not been exhausted, and, indeed, that much remains to be explored. Within this volume, novel interpretations and thematic developments of key Foucauldian concepts are presented in the works of 24 authors. Prominent among them are new forms of neoliberal economic conduct framed by distinct governmentalities; new critical concepts of biological life reflected in Foucault’s analysis of biopower, and new theoretical treatments of the effects of subjectivation. Moreover, included among these theoretical departures are empirical studies of contemporary formations of religion and spiritual practice, consumerism, race and racism, the discourse of genetics and the life sciences, surveillance and incarceration, and new social movements. Drawn from a conference held at the University of Massachusetts, Boston bearing the same title, A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governnentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium both expands our understanding of Foucault’s central theoretical legacy, and applies his ideas to a range of contemporary empirical phenomena.

Psychiatric Power

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312203313
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatric Power written by Michel Foucault and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madman found himself separated from the sane. That book ends with the medicalization of madness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Psychiatric Power continues this discourse up to the end of the nineteenth century, and the double "depsychiatrization" of madness, now dispersed between the neurologist and the psychoanalyst. Presented in a conversational tone, Psychiatric Power brings fresh access and light to the work of one of the past century's preeminent thinkers.

Happiness as Enterprise

Author : Sam Binkley
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438449836
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Happiness as Enterprise written by Sam Binkley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory. Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in the phenomenon of happiness, as evidenced by self-help books, talk shows, spiritual mentoring, business management, and relationship counseling. At the center of this development is the expanding influence of positive psychology, which places the concern with happiness in a new position of professional respectability, while opening it to institutional applications. In settings as diverse as college education, business, military training, family, and financial planning, happiness has appeared as the object of a new technology of emotional self-optimization. As such, happiness has come to define a new mentality of self-governmentor a governmentality as the concept is developed in the work of Michel Foucaultone that Sam Binkley demonstrates is aligned closely with economic neoliberalism. Happiness as Enterprise blends theoretical argumentation and empirical description in an engaging and accessible analysis that brings governmentality theory into contact with sociological theories of practice and temporality, particularly in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. This book invites readers not only to consider the new discourse on happiness for its relation to contemporary formations of power, but to rethink many of the assumptions of governmentality theory in a manner sensitive to the mundane practices and everyday agencies of government, and the unique and specific temporalities these practices imply.

Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality

Author : Jack Z. Bratich
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487113
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality written by Jack Z. Bratich and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering new and unique approaches bridging the gap between cultural analysis and governmentality studies in the United States, this book opens up new lines of inquiry into cultural practices and offers fresh perspectives on Foucault's writings and their implications for cultural studies. It provides critical frameworks to analyze cultural practices and strategies of governing as ways of understanding the present. It also broadens the theater of intellectual debates over "culture and governing" studies from their current locales in Australia and Great Britain to the United States.

Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America

Author : Matthew G. Hannah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669498
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America written by Matthew G. Hannah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah demonstrates that the modernization of late nineteenth-century America was a spatial and geographical project.

Scarlet Experiment

Author : Jeff Karnicky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803295731
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Scarlet Experiment written by Jeff Karnicky and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds--for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In the United States alone, seven species of birds are now extinct and another ninety-three are endangered. Conversely, the U.S. conservation movement has made bird-watching more popular than ever, saving countless bird populations; and while the history of actual physical human interaction with birds is complicated, our long aesthetic and scientific interest in them is undeniable. Since the beginning of the modern conservation movement in the mid-nineteenth century, human understanding of and interaction with birds has changed profoundly. In Scarlet Experiment, Jeff Karnicky traces the ways in which birds have historically been seen as beautiful creatures worthy of protection and study and yet subject to experiments--scientific, literary, and governmental--that have irrevocably altered their relationship with humans. This examination of the management of bird life in America from the nineteenth century to today, which focuses on six bird species, finds that renderings of birds by such authors as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Don DeLillo, and Christopher Cokinos, have also influenced public perceptions and actions. Scarlet Experiment speculates about the effects our decisions will have on the future of North American bird ecology.

Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism

Author : Volha Piotukh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134514948
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism by : Volha Piotukh

Download or read book Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism written by Volha Piotukh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault's theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful interpretation of the policies and practices associated with ‘new humanitarianism in general, as well as of the dynamics of two specific international assistance efforts: the post-2001 conflict-related assistance effort in Afghanistan and the post-2000 Chernobyl-related assistance effort in Belarus. The central argument of the book is that ‘new’ humanitarianism represents a dominant regime of humanitarian governing informed by globalising neoliberalism and is reliant on a complex set of biopolitical, disciplinary and sovereign technologies. It demonstrates that, while the purposes of humanitarian governing are specific to particular contexts, its promise of care is more often than not accompanied by sovereign and/or biopolitical violences. Making an important contribution to existing scholarship on humanitarian emergencies and humanitarian action, on biopolitics and governmentality, this book will be of much interest to students and scholars of humanitarianism, critical security studies, governmentality and International Relations generally.

The Foucault Effect

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226080451
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Foucault Effect written by Michel Foucault and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.

Spaces of Colonialism

Author : Stephen Legg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405181575
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Colonialism written by Stephen Legg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault’s lecture courses Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life

Governmentality

Author : Mitchell Dean
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1847873847
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Governmentality written by Mitchell Dean and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999 this exceptionally clear and lucid book quickly became the standard overview of what are now called 'governmentality studies'. With its emphasis on the relationship between governmentality and other key concepts drawn from Michel Foucault, such as bio-politics and sovereignty, the first edition anticipated and defined the terms of contemporary debate and analysis. In this timely second edition Mitchell Dean engages with the full textual basis of Foucault's lectures and once again provides invaluable insights into the traditions, methods and theories of political power identifying the authoritarian as well as liberal sides of governmentality. Every chapter has been fully revised and updated to incorporate, and respond to, new theoretical, social and political developments in the field; a new introduction surveying the state of governmentality today has also been added as well as a completely new chapter on international governmentality.

Neoliberalism as Exception

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387875
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism as Exception written by Aihwa Ong and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist. Ong shows how East and Southeast Asian states are making exceptions to their usual practices of governing in order to position themselves to compete in the global economy. As she demonstrates, a variety of neoliberal strategies of governing are re-engineering political spaces and populations. Ong’s ethnographic case studies illuminate experiments and developments such as China’s creation of special market zones within its socialist economy; pro-capitalist Islam and women’s rights in Malaysia; Singapore’s repositioning as a hub of scientific expertise; and flexible labor and knowledge regimes that span the Pacific. Ong traces how these and other neoliberal exceptions to business as usual are reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality. She argues that an interactive mode of citizenship is emerging, one that organizes people—and distributes rights and benefits to them—according to their marketable skills rather than according to their membership within nation-states. Those whose knowledge and skills are not assigned significant market value—such as migrant women working as domestic maids in many Asian cities—are denied citizenship. Nevertheless, Ong suggests that as the seam between sovereignty and citizenship is pried apart, a new space is emerging for NGOs to advocate for the human rights of those excluded by neoliberal measures of human worthiness.

The New Police Science

Author : Markus Dirk Dubber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753920
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The New Police Science written by Markus Dirk Dubber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary and international volume provides a critical analysis of the power to police as a basic technology of modern government found in a vast array of sites of governance, including not only the state, but also the household, the factory, the military, and—most recently—the global realm of war, police actions, and peace keeping.

The Birth of Biopolitics

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 0312203411
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Biopolitics written by Michel Foucault and published by Picador. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.

Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique

Author : Thomas Lemke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131725953X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique written by Thomas Lemke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault is one of the most cited authors in social science. This book discusses one of his most influential concepts: governmentality. Reconstructing its emergence in Foucault's analytics of power, the book explores the theoretical strengths the concept of governmentality offers for political analysis and critique. It highlights the intimate link between neoliberal rationalities and the problem of biopolitics including issues around genetic and reproductive technologies. This book is a useful introduction to Foucault's work on power and governmentality suitable for experts and students alike

Gambling in Everyday Life

Author : Fiona Jean Nicoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679032
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Gambling in Everyday Life written by Fiona Jean Nicoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book adopts a critical cultural studies lens to explore the entanglement of government and gambling in everyday life. Its qualitative approach to gambling creates a new theoretical framework for understanding the most urgent questions raised by research and policy on gambling. In the past two decades, gambling industries have experienced exponential growth with annual global expenditure worth approximately 300 billion dollars. Yet most academic research on gambling is concentrated on problem gambling and conducted within the psychological sciences. Nicoll considers gambling at a moment when its integration within everyday cultural spaces, moments, and products is unprecedented. This is the first interdisciplinary cultural study of gambling in everyday life and develops critical and empirical methods that capture the ubiquitous presence of gambling in work, investment and play. This book also contributes to the growing cultural studies literature on video and mobile gaming. In addition to original case studies of gambling moments and spaces, in-depth interviews and participant observations provide readers with an insider’s view of gambling. Advanced students of sociology, cultural theory, and political science, academic researchers in the field of gambling studies will find this an original and useful text for understanding the cultural and political work of gambling industries in liberal societies.