Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges

✍ Scribed by Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann, Thomas Lemke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought 71
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. Contributors highlight the differences as well as possible convergences with alternative theoretical frameworks. By assembling authors with a wide range of different disciplinary backgrounds, from philosophy, literature, political science, sociology to medical anthropology, the book offers a fresh perspective on studies of governmentality.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
1 From Foucault’s Lectures atthe Collège de France to Studies of Governmentality: An Introduction......Page 10
2 Relocating the Modern State: Governmentality and the History of Political Ideas......Page 43
3 Constituting Another Foucault Effect: Foucault on States and Statecraft......Page 65
4 Governmentalization of the State: Rousseau‘s Contribution to the Modern History of Governmentality......Page 83
5 Government Unlimited: The Security Dispositif of Illiberal Governmentality......Page 102
6 The Right of Government: Torture and the Rule of Law......Page 124
7 Foucault and Frontiers: Notes on the Birth of the Humanitarian Border......Page 147
8 Beyond Foucault: From Biopolitics to the Government of Life......Page 174
9 Coming Back to Life: An Anthropological Reassessment of Biopolitics and Governmentality......Page 194
10 The Birth of Lifestyle Politics: The Biopolitical Management of Lifestyle Diseases in the United States and Denmark......Page 210
11 Biology, Citizenship and the Government of Biomedicine: Exploring the Concept of Biological Citizenship......Page 234
12 Human Economy, Human Capital: A Critique of Biopolitical Economy......Page 256
13 Decentering the Economy: Governmentality Studies and Beyond?......Page 278
14 The Economic Beyond Governmentality: The Limits of Conduct......Page 294
15 Constructing the Socialized Self: Mobilization and Control in the “Active Society”......Page 313
Contributors......Page 330
Persons Index......Page 332
Subject Index......Page 336

✦ Subjects

Политические дисциплины;Политология;Социальная политика;