Governmentality : critical encounters

 

Governmentality : critical encounters

 

 

 

The book aims to serve four main functions:

• To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault’s thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods;

 

• To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings;

 

• To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics;
• To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry.