Foucault on Politics, Security and War

2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-28537-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Foucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon, M.

Neal, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; M.Dillon& A.W.Neal PART I: SITUATING FOUCAULT Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as Collaborateur; S.Elden PART II: POLITICS, SOVEREIGNTY, VIOLENCE Goodbye War on Terror? Foucault and Butler on Discourses of Law, War and Exceptionalism; A.W.Neal Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault; J.Reid Security: A Field Left Fallow; D.Bigo Revisiting Franco's Death: Life and Death and Bio-Political Governmentality; P.Palladino PART III: BIOS, NOMOS, RACE Law Versus History: Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty; M.Valverde The Politics of Death: Race War, Bio-Power and AIDS in the Post-Apartheid; D.Fassin Security, Race, and War; M.Dillon

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL DILLON is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, UK. He has published widely on politics of security and on political and cultural theory. Among his books are (1996). Michael Dillon is also co-editor of . 
 
ANDREW W. NEAL is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His PhD, which he is currently developing for publication as , won the British International Studies Association thesis prize in 2006. He has published articles as sole and joint author on Foucault, exceptionalism and critical approaches to security.