Majia Holmer Nadesan

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the family, the workplace, and the military.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135903572
• Artikelnr.: 38262045

Autorenporträt

Majia Holmer Nadesan is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University at the West Campus. She authored Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social (Routledge, 2005). Her Foucauldian-inspired work bridges cultural studies and political economy while addressing everyday concerns and practices specific to the workplace, child-rearing, and education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Governmentality. Assumptions and Methods. Chapters 2.
Liberal Governmentalities. Liberal Governmentalities. The Liberal State: A
Genealogy of Early Modernism. Pastoral Power, Biopower and the Liberal
Welfare State. Neoliberal Enterprise and Neoconservative Governmentalities.
Neoliberal Governmental: Enterprise and Risk. Neoconservative and Christian
Pastoral Government. Diffusions 3. Governing the Self-Regulating Market.
Markets, Mercantilism and Laissez-Faire Government. Markets, Mercantilism,
and Circulation. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Joint-Stock
Companies, Trading, and Law. Laissez-Faire Government: A Philosophy of
Wealth and Poverty. Nineteenth Century Markets: Corporatization and
Colonialism. A Genealogy of the American Corporation. Governing "Protected"
Markets. Gold Standard Market Government. Nineteenth Century Problematics
of Government. Governing Economic Risk: From Laissez-Faire to the Welfare
State. The End of Laissez-Faire and the Welfare State. Finance, Fordism and
the Welfare State. Neoliberalism: Enterprise and Risk. U.S. Neoliberalism.
Globalizing Neoliberalism. Neoliberal Authorities, Risks, and Global Flows.
Neoliberal Policy, Corporate Government, and the Population. Neoliberal
Market Government and Biopolitical Crises4. Governing Population: Biopower,
Risk, and the Politics of Health. The Birth of Biopolitics and Foucault's
Genealogy of Social Medicine. The Diseased Body: Transformations in
Understanding. Social Medicine: From Sanitary Science to the Science of the
Germ. The Surveillance Model of Medicine: From the Germ to Eugenics.
Twentieth Century Social-Surveillance Medicine. From Social-Welfare
Governmentality to Neoliberal Technologies of Health Government.
Conservative Government of Health Risk. Twentieth Century Genetics and
Genomics. Genes, Genetic Analysis and Genomic Analysis. Genetic
Engineering. Genetic Biopolitics. Contesting Health: Biopolitics and
Marketization 5. Governing Population: Mind and Brain as Governmental
Spaces. Madness, Criminology and Eugenics: Nineteenth Century Dividing
Practices. Madness: From Moral Pathology to Biological Psychiatry. The
Biologization of Criminal Degeneracy and the Development of Eugenics.
Twentieth Century Biopower: From Normalization to Optimization. Mental
Hygiene, Normalization, and Development of Technologies of the Self. From
Normalization to Optimization: Mental Health and Human Development in the
Welfare State. Governing the Brain: Behavioral Genetics, Psychopharmacology
and Cognitive Neuroscience. Behavioral Genetics. Psychopharmacology.
Neurological Visibility. Governing Difference: Self-Government,
Disciplinarity, and the Society of Control 6. Biopower, Sovereignty, and
America's Global Security. Foucault, Agamben, and Sovereignty. The United
States of America: Biopower, Race and Sovereignty. Surveillance, Threat
Governmentality, and Precautionary Risk. Sovereign Exceptionality.
Sovereignty and Liberal Governmentality 7. Bad Subjects and Liberal
Governmentalities. Notes. References. Index.