Interdisciplinary collection of essays on the techniques of governance and economy that are used to organize populations around questions of life and death.
Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the economy, and a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. In Beyond Biopolitics, prominent theorists seek to account for and critical…
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The 21st century has been marked by a series of crises in which life's vulnerability was brutally exposed. As a result, care has moved to the forefront of ethical and political debates. 'Narrative Care' shows that care is also an aesthetic issue: through close-readings of J.M. C…
The 21st century has been marked by a series of crises in which life's vulnerability was brutally exposed. As a result, care has moved to the forefront of ethical and political debates. 'Narrative Care' shows that care is also an aesthetic issue: through close-readings of J.M. C…
This book provides a cutting edge overview of recent debates in International Relations theory concerning the applicability of the research and methods of Michel Foucault to contemporary world order. This book was published as a special issue in "Global Society"
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The recent debate about biopolitics in international relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the co…
This volume provides an overview of debates in international relations theory. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by security in 19th-century liberal government, IR scholars are now arguing for the relevance of his theories of biopolitics and governmenta…
"The recent debate about biopolitics in international relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the c…
"The recent debate about biopolitics in international relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the c…
Features Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality that has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power.