South Asian Governmentalities

Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings
Herausgeber: Legg, Stephen; Heath, Deana

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume analyses the ways in which the works of twentieth-century philosopher Michel Foucault have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. It surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive disciplinary fields of governmentality and South Asian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 188mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428514
• ISBN-10: 1108428517
• Artikelnr.: 52639163

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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.