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Governmentality : critical encounters
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Title
Governmentality : critical encounters / William Walters.
ISBN
0203116933
1136301542
9780203116937
9781136301544
0415779537
0415779545
9780415779531
9780415779548
Published
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality. The book aims to serve four main functions: To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault's thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods; To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings; To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics; To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry. This book offers a set of conceptual and methodological observations intended to keep research in governmentality a living, critical thought project. Above all, it argues that the challenge of understanding the world calls for the addition of new thinking equipment to the governmentality toolbox. Governmentality: Critical Encounters will prove useful for students of social and political theory, international relations, political sociology, anthropology and geography
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Walters, William, 1964- Governmentality. New York : Routledge, 2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2024
Series
Critical issues in global politics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the advance of governmentality
Foucault, power, and governmentality: introduction; what is governmentality?; beyond the microphysics of power?; from theory of the state to genealogy of the state; history of the art of government; pastoral power; raison d'état; liberal governmentality; five propositions on foucault and governmentality
Governmentality 3.4.7.: introduction; governmentality after Foucault; governmentality and the political sciences; some problems in governmentality
Foucault effect redux? some notes on international governmentality studies: constellation; a few preliminary observations; problems and debates in international governmentality studies
Reconnecting governmentality and genealogy: introduction; genealogy and governmentality; pluralizing genealogy; practicing genealogy; lines of descent: the family tree of power?; counter-memory and re-serialization; the retrieval of forgotten struggles and subjugated knowledges
Conclusion: encountering governmentality: governmentality as a new cartography of power; from mapping to encountering; governmentality and politics.
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