South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings

Name: South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings
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This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive disciplinary fields of governmentality - a concept introduced by Foucault himself - and South Asian studies. It aims to chart the intersection of post-structuralism and postcolonialism that has seen the latter Foucault being used to ask new questions in and of South Asia, and the experiences of post-colonies used to tease and test the utility of European philosophy beyond Europe. But it also seeks to contribute to the rich body of work on South Asian governmentalities through a critical engagement with the lecture series delivered by Foucault at the College de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English. See more

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Format: Paperback
Weight: 380g
Dimensions: 153 x 228mm
Publication Date: 18 Oct 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781108449854

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Stephen Legg is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is a specialist on interwar colonial India with a particular interest in the politics of urban space within imperial and international frames. He has analyzed these spaces and frames through drawing upon theoretical approaches from memory scholarship postcolonialism political theory and governmentality studies. His publications include Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2007) Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale Governmentalities and Interwar India (2014) and the edited collection Spatiality Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (2011). Deana Heath is a senior lecturer in Indian history at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on colonialism the body and state power. She is the co-editor of Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora (2010) and author of Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain India and Australia (Cambridge 2010). Her current research focuses on various forms of embodied violence in colonial India including torture sexual violence against men and interpersonal violence.