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Author Nadesan, Majia Holmer, 1965-

Title Governmentality, biopower, and everyday life / Majia Holmer Nadesan
Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 57
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 57.
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Liberal Governmentalities -- chapter 3 Governing the Self-Regulating Market -- chapter 4 Governing Population: Biopower, Risk, and the Politics of Health -- chapter 5 Governing Population: Mind and Brain as Governmental Spaces -- chapter 6 Biopower, Sovereignty, and America's Global Security -- chapter 7 "Bad Subjects" and Liberal Governmentalities
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index
Notes English
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Subject Power (Social sciences)
State, The.
Biopolitics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Biopolitics
Power (Social sciences)
State, The
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203894620
0203894626
9786611394899
6611394893
1135903581
9781135903589
1281394890
9781281394897