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Handbook on Governmentality discusses the development of an interdisciplinary field of research, focusing on Michel Foucault’s post-foundationalist concept of governmentality and the ways it has been used to write genealogies of modern states, the governance of societal problems and the governance of the self.
Bringing together an international group of contributors, the Handbook examines major developments in debates on governmentality, as well as encouraging further research in areas such as climate change, decolonial politics, logistics, and populism. Chapters explore how governmentality reshapes policy analysis as political practice, the relationship between Foucault’s ideas of government and postcolonial experiences, and how governmentality can illuminate discourse on the green economy and biopolitics. Analysing how contemporary socio-political issues including feminist politics, migration, and racialized medicine are interwoven with the concept of governmentality, this Handbook sheds light on the modern-day uses of Foucault’s work.
Providing a comprehensive overview of research on governmentality, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of development studies, geopolitics, political economy, organizational studies, political geography, postcolonial theory, and public policy. It will also be a key resource for policy makers in the field looking for a deeper theoretical understanding of the topic.
Trade Review‘Nearly forty years after his death, governmentality remains Michel Foucault’s most elusive and productive theoretical concept; especially in generating interdisciplinary empirical scholarship. Now with its revelatory introductory chapter and powerhouse collection of leading contemporary scholars, Walters and Tazzioli's Handbook on Governmentality has demystified the topic and opened governmentality to a new generation of critical researchers across the social sciences and humanities.’ -- Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley, US
‘Governmentality has become a ubiquitous term in social and political theory. Stemming from Foucault, the concept has been stretched and even squeezed over the last years. This impressive Handbook lays the basis for a new season in governmentality studies, exploring new geographical and conceptual frontiers. An amazing achievement!’ -- Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Italy
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on governmentality 1 William Walters and Martina Tazzioli PART I GOVERNMENTALITY: GENESIS, ENCOUNTER, TRANSFORMATION 1 Foucault, governmentality, and the techniques of the self 22 Daniele Lorenzini 2 The yoke of law and the lustre of glory: Foucault and Dumézil on sovereignty 38 Stuart Elden 3 Governmentalizing ‘policy studies’ 54 Carol Bacchi 4 Governmentality and international relations: critiques, challenges, genealogies 72 Hans-Martin Jaeger 5 Towards a postcolonial theory of crisis, neoliberal government, and biopolitics from below 94 Ranabir Samaddar PART II TALKING GOVERNMENTALITY 6 Governmentality: a conversation with Wendy Brown, Partha Chatterjee and Nikolas Rose 113 Wendy Brown, Partha Chatterjee, Nikolas Rose, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters 7 Governmentality and beyond: an interview with Colin Gordon 136 Colin Gordon, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters 8 Governmentality in translation: an interview with Graham Burchell 156 Graham Burchell, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters PART III GOVERNMENT AND ITS PROBLEMS 9 The neoliberal welfare state 174 Ian Alexander Lovering, Sahil Jai Dutta and Samuel Knafo 10 Governmentality and security: governing life-in-motion 187 Jef Huysmans 11 Secrecy beyond the state: governmentality, security and truth effects 208 Susanne Krasmann 12 Governmentality and the subject of rights 221 Ben Golder 13 Algorithmic governmentality: questions of method 235 Claudia Aradau 14 Logistical power 251 Brett Neilson 15 Governmentality and political ecology 266 Emanuele Leonardi and Luigi Pellizzoni PART IV GOVERNMENTALITY ACROSS NATIONS AND OTHER POLITICAL FORMATIONS 16 Diminishing life: racialized medicine, neoliberalism, and precarity in the United States 287 Jonathan Xavier Inda 17 French humanitarianism: governmentality and its limits 304 Miriam Ticktin 18 EUrope’s border ensemble and the disorder of migrant multiplicities 320 Maurice Stierl 19 Hukou and suzhi as technologies of governing citizenship and migration in China 335 Chenchen Zhang PART V GOVERNMENTALITY AND CONTESTATION 20 Feminist politics and neoliberal governmentality: from co-option to counter-conduct 353 Srila Roy 21 The practice of parrhēsia and the transformation of managerial governmentality 369 Richard Weiskopf 22 Countering governmentality: enacting diverging territorialities by former enslaved people in Cauca, Colombia (1849–1886) 389 Cristina Rojas 23 Insurgent politics: refugees, sans-papiers and deportees under asylum and migration laws 405 Clara Lecadet Index
