Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday LifeGovernmentality, 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 private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war on terror. This book is designed for readers interested in a rigorous, comprehensive introduction to the wide array of interdisciplinary work focusing on Foucault, biopower and governmentality. However, Nadesan does not merely reproduce existing literatures but also responds to implicit critiques made by Cultural Studies and Marxist scholarship concerning identity politics, political economy, and sovereign force and disciplinary control. Using concrete examples and detailed illustrations throughout, this book extends the extant literature on governmentality and biopower and helps shape our understanding of everyday life under neoliberalism. |
Contents
Liberal Governmentalities 15 | |
Governing the SelfRegulating Market 45 | |
Biopower Risk and the Politics of Health 93 | |
Mind and Brain as Governmental Spaces 138 | |
Biopower Sovereignty and Americas Global Security 183 | |
Bad Subjects and Liberal Governmentalities 211 | |
Notes 217 | |
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