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Refugee camps are increasingly managed through a liberal rationality of government similar to that of many industrialized societies, with security mechanisms being used to optimize the life of particular refugee populations. This governmentality has encompassed programmes introduced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to build and empower communities through the spatial technology of the camp. The present article argues that such attempts to 'govern through community' have been too easily dismissed or ignored. It therefore examines how such programmes work to produce, manage and conduct refugees through the use of a highly instrumentalized understanding of community in the spatial and statistical management of displaced people in camps. However, community is always both more and less than what is claimed of it, and therefore undermines attempts to use it as a governing tactic. By shifting to a more ontological understanding of community as unavoidable coexistence, inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy, we can see how the scripting of and government through community in camps is continually exceeded, redirected and resisted. Ethnographies of specific camps in Africa and the Middle East enable us both to see how the necessary sociality of being resists its own instrumentalization and to view the camp as a spatial security technology. Such resistance does not necessarily lead to greater security, but it redirects our attention to how community is used to conduct the behaviour of refugees, while also producing counter-conducts that offer greater agency, meaning and mobility to those displaced in camps.

This article tackles the birth of modern State after the end of the Thirty Years' War, following Schmitt and Foucault's political thinking. Specifically, the theory of large spaces, but mostly the theory of governmentality by the French philosopher, with its special attention to biopower and the police, allows us to shed light on the main characteristics of the form State that emerged after Westphalia. ; Este artículo aborda el nacimiento del Estado moderno, tras el fin de la Guerra de los Treinta Años, a partir del pensamiento político de Schmitt y Foucault. En concreto, la teoría de los grandes espacios, pero sobre todo la teoría de la gubernamentalidad del filósofo francés, con su atención en el biopoder y la policía, nos permite iluminar las principales características de la forma Estado surgida tras Westfalia.

Chapter One: Introduction: Who and What Does "the Economy" Serve? -- Chapter Two: The Origins of Statecraft -- Chapter Three: The Public Purpose of Political Economy -- Chapter Four: National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and the Limits of Developmentalism -- Chapter Five: The Delicate Order of Liberalism -- Chapter Six: The Transgressive Economy -- Chapter Seven: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Promise of the Demotic Economy -- Conclusion: Political Economy as a Liberal Art.

Introduction : "coming out to the streets" -- Reframing family rejection : growing up poor and LGBTQ -- Queer control complex : the punishing production of LGBTQ youth -- New lavender scare : policing and the criminalization of LGBTQ youth homelessness -- Queer street smarts : LGBTQ youth navigating homelessness -- Respite, resources, rules, and regulations: homonormative governmentality and LGBTQ shelter life -- Conclusion : there's no place like home -- Appendix. Compassionate detachment : on being a volunteer researcher.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Desire? -- 1. The Birth of Homo Oeconomicus -- 2. Man's "Vain and Insatiable Desires," or the "Oeconomy of Greatness" -- 3. Neoliberal Governmentality -- 4. "Abnormal Desires" and "Barbarous Instincts": The Birth of the Sexual Pervert -- 5. Instincts or Drives? The Birth of Psychoanalysis -- 6. Recognition, That "Most Ardent Desire" -- 7. Struggles for Recognition -- 8. The Consolations of Recognition -- Conclusion: Desire, Again . . . -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A Glimpse into the World of Itorero -- Ethnographic Spaces -- Paths of Inquiry -- Contemporary Research on Rwanda -- Leta: The Rwandan State -- Intore: The Model Rwandan Citizen -- Toward an Anthropology of Authoritarianism? -- Authoritarian Modes of Government as Modern-­Day Governmentality -- Rationalities and Technologies: Tracing the Liberal in the Authoritarian -- Experiences of Exposure -- Looking Beyond the Self and the State -- Chapter Outline -- References

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Culture of Fear and the Risk Paradigm -- 2 Body, Mind, and Soul: The Notion of Governance -- 3 Risk and Excess -- 4 A Free and Informed Will -- 5 Conclusion: Governmentality, Risk, and Religious Freedom -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

1. Singapore's population dilemma -- 2. Singaporean demography from past to present : fertility and migration trends -- 3. Singapore's soft authoritarianism and population control -- 4. Conscription, the Singaporean core and the question of loyalty -- 5. Population problems, family policies, and the naturalization of differentiated deservedness / Youyenn Teo -- 6. Reproductive citizenship, governmentality and the theory of entitlement -- 7. Foreign talent and popular opposition to migration -- 8. Singapore's future.

1. Becoming better men and women : gender mainstreaming as a technique of governmentality -- 2. Political landscapes of gender mainstreaming : intelligibility of gender in Aceh -- 3. "This is gender!" Normalised sex/gender divide and subversive gender -- 4. Women can do it too! Governing post-tsunami gender norms through the radiowaves -- 5. Project managerial practices of gender mainstreaming : governing spatial and temporal landscapes of post-tsunami Aceh.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Longue Duree -- Chapter 1. The Nation-State and the City Hall -- Chapter 2. The Shophouse and the Chinese -- Time Remembered/Time Forgotten -- Chapter 3. Researching Modernism -- Chapter 4. The Peasantry and the Periurban Fringe -- Spatial Conjunctures -- Chapter 5. The Coast and the Last Frontier -- Chapter 6. Green Governmentality -- Chapter 7. Housing the Margin -- Epilogue: Turning Time: An Interview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

While Cyber-Nationalism in China examines fundamental questions surrounding the political implications of the Internet in China, it avoids simply predicting that the Internet does or does not lead to democratization. Applying a theoretical approach based on the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the book builds on current scholarship that has attempted to move beyond examining the dynamics of the socio-cultural and -political use of new media technologies

The nature of political mythology -- Introduction -- The past as a figure of the present and future -- Establishment and refinement -- The Leviathan, the calling and their separation -- Imagining a general will -- The reason of Protestant politics -- Modernisation -- Reason and the myth of justice -- The liberalism of the market -- Freedom is the state -- Defending the state against scepticism -- Embodiment -- The state as civilisation -- Governmentality, the market and liberalism.

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Immigrant associations in Germany are increasingly approached as experts and included in administrative action. This article develops a heuristic informed by governmentality studies to analyse this cooperation practice. A document analysis shows that immigrant associations are addressed as "bridge builders" between public administration and migrants. Interviews with actors in a municipal cooperation setting in Berlin reveal the paradoxes of this interpellation as well as reflexive strategies of organisational self-positioning.

Occupying an eccentric position with respect to critical theories, Foucault prefigures a queer critical thought and practice. In this paper I make a case for the continuing importance of Foucault for rethinking feminism within the context of neoliberal governmentality despite continuing skepticism about the value of his ethical writings. I draw not only upon the work of Foucault, but also that of queer feminist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.