South Asian Governmentalities : Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings Paperback / softback
Edited by Stephen (University of Nottingham) Legg, Deana (University of Liverpool) Heath
Part of the South Asia in the Social Sciences series
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This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia.
South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive disciplinary fields of governmentality - a concept introduced by Foucault himself - and South Asian studies.
It aims to chart the intersection of post-structuralism and postcolonialism that has seen the latter Foucault being used to ask new questions in and of South Asia, and the experiences of post-colonies used to tease and test the utility of European philosophy beyond Europe.
But it also seeks to contribute to the rich body of work on South Asian governmentalities through a critical engagement with the lecture series delivered by Foucault at the College de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English.
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- Pages:278 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/10/2018
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- ISBN:9781108449854
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
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- Pages:278 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/10/2018
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- ISBN:9781108449854
