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Governmentality : critical encounters / William Walters.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical issues in global politics ; 3.Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: viii, 188 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415779545 (pbk)
  • 9780415779548 (pbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JA71 W247 2012
Subject: "First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality. The book aims to serve four main functions: To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault?s thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods; To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings; To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics; To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry."
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة JA71 W247 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 30010011083362
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة JA71 W247 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 30010011083019
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة JA71 W247 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.3 Available 30010011083228

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality. The book aims to serve four main functions: To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault?s thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods; To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings; To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics; To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry."

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