Governmentality: current issues and future challenges

by Bröckling, Ulrich Krasmann, Susanne Lemke, Thomas

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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 an…

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Full title :Governmentality : current issues and future challenges / edited by Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke

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Publication Date:2011

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011

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From Foucault's lectures at the Collège de france to studies of governmentality : an introduction / Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke. Relocating the modern state : governmentality and the history of political ideas / Martin Saar. Constituting another Foucault effect : foucault on states and statecraft / Bob Jessop. Governmentalization of the state: Rousseau's contribution to the modern history of governmentality / Friedrich Balke. Government unlimited : the security dispositif of illiberal governmentality / Sven Opitz. The right of government : torture and the rule of law / Susanne Krasmann. Foucault and frontiers : notes on the birth of the humanitarian border / William Walters. Beyond Foucault : from biopolitics to the government of life / Thomas Lemke. Coming back to life : an anthropological reassessment of biopolitics and governmentality / Didier Fassin. The birth of lifestyle politics : the biopolitical management of lifestyle diseases in the United states and Denmark / Lars Thorup Larsen. Biology, citizenship, and the government of biomedicine : exploring the concept of biological citizenship / Peter Wehling. Human economy, human capital : a critique of biopolitical economy / Ulrich Bröckling. Decentering the economy: governmentality studies and beyond / Urs Stäheli. The economic beyond governmentality: the limits of conduct / Ute Tellmann. Constructing the socialized self: mobilization and control in the "active society" / Stephan Lessenich.