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

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English
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New York : Routledge, 2011.
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viii, 331 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason & the economy, this text explores the advantages & limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780415999205
    • 0415999200
    • 9780203846476
    • 0203846478
    LCCN
    2010004575
    OCLC
    519832815
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