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First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality. 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. This book offers a set of conceptual and methodological observations intended to keep research in governmentality a living, critical thought project. Above all, it argues that the challenge of understanding the world calls for the addition of new thinking equipment to the governmentality toolbox. Governmentality: Critical Encounters will prove useful for students of social and political theory, international relations, political sociology, anthropology and geography

This title provides a readable account of the problem of governmentality that has stirred interests in a variety of disciplines and fields of knowledge.

Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio: Neoliberalisation of institutions. Kamila Kraft: Linguistic securitisation as a governmentality in the neoliberalising welfare state -- Nelson Flores: Producing national and neoliberal subjects: bilingual education and governmentality in the United States -- Elisa A. Hidalgo McCabe and Noelia Fernández-González: Framing 'choice' in language education: the case of freedom in constructing inequality -- Bonnie Urciuoli: Leadership communication "skills" and undergraduate neoliberal subjectivity -- The neoliberal subject/ speaker. Joan Pujolar: Linguistic entrepreneurship: neoliberalism, language learning, and class -- Andrea Sunyol & Eva Codó: Fabricating neoliberal subjects through the international baccalaureate diploma programme -- Luisa Martín Rojo: The "self-made speaker": the neoliberal governance of speakers -- Alfonso Del Percio & Sze Wan Vivian Wong: Resetting minds and souls: language, employability and the making of neoliberal subjects -- Afterwords. Jacqueline Urla: Towards an ethnography of linguistic governmentalities -- Monica Heller: neoliberalism as a régime of truth: studies in hegemony.

"By using Michel Foucault's idea of governmentality, this book reinterprets various cases of revolt and popular uprisings in Bangladesh. It attempts to synthesize the theories of Foucault's governmentality and Antonio Gramsci's notions of hegemony and counter-hegemony. In this book, Bangladesh's history of revolt and counter-hegemony are categorized as nationalist governmentality, authoritarian governmentality, and global/neo-liberal governmentality. Each of these phases, the author argues, is not a replacement or dislocation of the earlier governmentality in practice but rather a reformulation of the construct. This reconfiguration results from counter-hegemonic revolts launched by various subaltern categories. Throughout the book, the author asserts that governmentality and counter-conducts/counter-hegemonies are linked with and transformed by each other. Furthermore, by using Bangladesh as a case study, the author contemplates an idea of colonial and post-colonial governmentality"--

Global Governmentality extends Foucault's political thought towards international studies, exploring the governance of the global, the international, the regional and many other extra-domestic spaces.

Intro -- Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Governing the Present -- 2. Mapping the Intersections of Foucault and Cultural Studies -- 3. Culture and Governmentality -- Part I: Knowledge, Theory, Expertise -- 4. Making Politics Reasonable -- 5. Bureaumentality -- 6. Disciplining Mobility -- Part II: Policy, Power, and Governing Practices -- 7. Unaided Virtues -- 8. From Nation to Community -- 9. Designing Fear -- 10. Creating a New Panopticon -- Part III: Technologies of the Self -- 11. Doing Good by Running Well -- 12. God Games and Governmentality -- 13. Subjectivity as Identity -- Contributors -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Resilience refers to the ability of individuals, groups and societies to withstand and recover from external shocks. This pioneering book-length comparative study examines resilience as it is experienced across different countries, such as the UK, US, France, Germany and EU. Furthermore it considers cases from policy sectors including national security, counterterrorism, civil protection, disaster risk reduction, critical infrastructure protection and overseas interventions. In doing so, Joseph provides an account of why it is that resilience has become such a popular policy topic, looking at its focus on complexity, the human and the role of resilient individuals and communities. Arguing that resilience has risen to prominence because it fits with a particularly Anglo-Saxon and neoliberal form of governance, Joseph discovers differing results across policy domains and national contexts, fomenting variations and tensions in the international discourse of resilience in policy-making.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Governmentality and Education: Vulnerable Triumphalism as a Technology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Background and Context: Fears and Desires -- 1.2 Assembling the Theoretical Framework -- 1.2.1 Neoliberalism -- 1.2.2 Governmentality -- 1.2.3 Affect and Emotions -- 1.2.4 Affect, Governmentality, and Neoliberalism -- 1.2.5 Vulnerable Triumphalism -- 1.3 Significance -- 1.3.1 Research Focus and Questions -- 1.4 Delineation of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: Pastoral Power and Governmental Subjectivities: An Analysis of a Teacher Recruitment Advertisement -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 The Research Data -- 2.1.2 Operationalising Neoliberal, Governmental, and Affective Education -- 2.1.3 Government Policies in the Popular and Mass Media -- 2.1.4 The Romanticisation of the Heartlander -- 2.1.5 The Pedagogy of Care -- 2.2 Methods -- 2.3 Analyses and Findings -- 2.3.1 Portrayals of Poverty -- 2.3.2 Portrayals of Femininity -- 2.4 Discussion -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Governmentality and Mediatisation: An Analysis of a Teacher Recruitment Advertising Campaign -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Review of Mediatisation and Resistance -- 3.2.1 Mediatisation -- 3.2.2 Resistance -- 3.3 Methods -- 3.4 Mediatisation Analyses -- 3.4.1 Iremembermyteacher.com: Mrs. Chong -- 3.4.2 Mdm. Ang: Video -- 3.4.3 Mr. Kumar: Video -- 3.4.4 "The Teachers We Remember": Magazine Article -- 3.4.5 Social Media Comments -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Governmentality, Geosemiotics, and the Visual Culture of School Banner Advertisements -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.2.1 Neoliberalism -- 4.3 Methods: The Governmental-Geosemiotic Approach -- 4.4 Findings -- 4.4.1 School Advertisements -- 4.4.2 Logos and Awards.

Rule by Numbers offers original perspectives on the construction of the colonial state and colonial power in the framework of governmentality and draws implications for the postcolonial nation-state in the contemporary period. This book specifically focuses on the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, this book explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. It highlights the differences as well as possible convergences with alternative theoretical frameworks.