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1 online resource (vii, 204 pages) : color illustrations |
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Introduction: Reading Foucault in the Postcolonial Present / Sandro Mezzadra, Julian Reid, Ranabir Samaddar -- Foucault and His 'Other': Subjectivation and Displacement / Judith Revel -- Michel Foucault and Our Postcolonial Time / Ranabir Samaddar -- Biopolitics and Urban Governmentality in Mumbai / Manish K. Jha, P.K. Shajahan, Mouleshri Vyas -- Where Is the Human in Human-Centred Approaches to Development? A Critique of Amartya Sen's 'Development as Freedom' / David Chandler -- Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Peace-Building in a Permanent State of Adaptation / Suvi Alt -- Interrogating the Neoliberal Biopolitics of the Sustainable Development-Resilience Nexus / Julian Reid -- Lines of Siege: The Contested Government of Nature / Paulo Tavares -- Politics of Truth and Pious Economies / Michael Dillon |
| Summary |
This book offers an original analytic and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault's works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political science and international relations, and several authors of this book have themselves made significant contributions to that influence. While Foucault's thought has been inspirational for understanding colonial biopolitics as well as governmental rationalities concerned with development, his works have too often failed to inspire studies of political subjectivity. Instead, they have been used to stoke the myth of the inevitability of the decline of collective political subjects, often describing an increasingly limited horizon of political possibilities, and provoking a disenchantment with the political itself in postcolonial works and studies. Working against the grain of current Foucauldian scholarship, this book underlines the importance of Foucault's work for the capacity to recognize how this degraded view of political subjectivity came about, particularly within the framework of the discourses and politics of development, and with particular attention to the predicaments of postcolonial peoples. It explores how we can use Foucault's ideas to recover the vital capacity to think and act politically at a time when fundamentally human capacities to think, know and to act purposively in the world are being pathologized as expressions of the hubris and underdevelopment of postcolonial peoples. Why and how it is that life in postcolonial settings has been depoliticized to such dramatic effect? The immediacy of these themes will be obvious to anyone living in the South of the world. But within the academy they remain heavily under-addressed. In thinking about what it means to read Michel Foucault today, this book tackles some significant questions and problems: Not simply that of how to explain the ways in which postcolonial regimes of governance have achieved the debasements of political subjectivity they have; nor that of how we might better equip them with the means to suborn the life of postcolonial peoples more fully; but that of how such peoples, in their subjection to governance, can and do resist, subvert, escape and defy the imposition of modes of governance which seek to remove their lives of those very capacities for resistance, subversion, flight, and defiance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 3, 2014) |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
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| SUBJECT |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast |
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Biopolitics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Biopolitics
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mezzadra, Sandro, editor
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Reid, Julian (Julian David McHardy), editor.
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Samāddāra, Raṇabīra, editor
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| ISBN |
9788132215967 |
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8132215966 |
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