{"product_id":"south-asian-governmentalities-9781108449854","title":"South Asian Governmentalities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 CollÃge de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements; 1. Introducing South Asian governmentalities Deana Heath and Stephen Legg; 2. Governmentality in the East Partha Chatterjee; 3. Pastoral care, the reconstitution of pastoral power and the creation of disobedient subjects under colonialism Indrani Chatterjee; 4. The abiding binary: the social and the political in modern India Prathama Banerjee; 5. Colonial and nationalist truth regimes: empire, Europe and the latter Foucault Stephen Legg; 6. Law as economy\/economy as governmentality: convention, corporation, currency Ritu Birla; 7. Do elephants have souls? Animal subjectivities and colonial encounters Jonathan Saha; 8. Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India Sara Hodges; 9. Changing the subject: from feminist governmentality to technologies of the (feminist) self Srila Roy; 10. The tortured body: the irrevocable tension between sovereign and biopower in colonial Indian technologies of Rule Deana Heath; 11. The subject in question Gerry Kearns; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186762441047,"sku":"9781108449854","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/south-asian-governmentalities-9781108449854","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}