South Asian governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings

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TextSeries: South Asia in the social sciencesPublication details: Cambridge University Press 2018 CambridgeDescription: vi, 269 p. Includes references and indexISBN:

9781108449854

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320.954 S6

Summary: 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 Collège de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/south-asian-governmentalities/40CE52065E18381F2EE503015FE9CE0B#fndtn-information

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Table of Content

Machine generated contents note: Introductions
1.Introducing South Asian Governmentalities / Stephen Legg
2.Governmentality in the East / Partha Chatterjee
Histories and Presents
3.Pastoral Care, the Reconstitution of Pastoral Power and the Creation of Disobedient Subjects under Colonialism / Indrani Chatterjee
4.The Abiding Binary: The Social and the Political in Modern India / Prathama Banerjee
5.Colonial and Nationalist Truth Regimes: Empire, Europe and the Latter Foucault / Stephen Legg
6.Law as Economy/Economy as Governmentality: Convention, Corporation, Currency / Ritu Birla
Subjects and Matters
7.Do Elephants Have Souls? Animal Subjectivities and Colonial Encounters / Jonathan Saha
8.Plastic History, Caste and the Government of Things in Modern India / Sarah Hodges
9.Changing the Subject: From Feminist Governmentality to Technologies of the (Feminist) Self / Srila Roy
Contents note continued: 10.The Tortured Body: The Irrevocable Tension between Sovereign and Biopower in Colonial Indian Technologies of Rule / Deana Heath
Reflection
11.The Subject in Question / Gerry Kearns.

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 Collège de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/south-asian-governmentalities/40CE52065E18381F2EE503015FE9CE0B#fndtn-information

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