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Governmentality and the Analytics of Development
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The authors discuss the extension of Foucault's work on governmentality into the fields of global studies in general and development studies in particular, drawing on insights from post-development theory and critical race theory, they present an adaptation of governmentality that is intended to bridge the gap between those studies dealing with the regulatory aspects of development in the global South and those dealing with construction of ethical identities in the North.Abstract:
In this article, I discuss the extension of Foucault’s work on governmentality into the fields of global studies in general and development studies in particular. Drawing on insights from postdevelopment theory and critical race theory, I present an adaptation of governmentality—labeled developmentality—that is intended to bridge the gap between those studies dealing with the regulatory aspects of development in the global South and those dealing with construction of ethical identities in the North.read more
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Organizational Enablers for Project Governance and Governmentality in Project-based Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify organizational enablers for project governance and governmentality in the realm of projects in project-based organizations (PBOs) using a multiple case study design with six firms in Sweden and China to identify OEs.
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Enacting/Disrupting the Will to Empower: Feminist Governance of “Child Marriage” in Eastern India
TL;DR: In this article, the interrelated question of feminist conduct and counter-conduct in government has been investigated in the context of women's economic empowerment, and it has been shown that women empowerment and government can come to operate in a regulatory and coercive manner.
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Sustaining the life-chance divide? Education for sustainable development and the global biopolitical regime
Sofie Hellberg,Beniamin Knutsson +1 more
TL;DR: This article argued that ESD feeds into the global life-chance divide as it prepares different populations for entirely different lives and lifestyles, and offered a third theoretical position that while sharing a deep unease with global neoliberal government is primarily concerned with its "will to divide".
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Greenhouse governmentality: Protected agriculture and the changing biopolitical management of agrarian life in Jamaica:
Alex A. Moulton,Jeff Popke +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw upon Foucauldian theories of governmentality and biopower to examine the recent growth of greenhouse cultivation on the island of Jamaica, and draw on a series of interviews with greenhouse growers.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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The Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as mentioned in this paper, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought
TL;DR: Powers of Freedom as mentioned in this paper is an approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways and argues that freedom is not the opposite of government but one of its key inventions and most significant resources.
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Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society
TL;DR: The Second Edition Basic Concepts and Themes Government and Governmentality as discussed by the authors An Analytics of Government Analyzing Regimes of Government Genealogy and Government Governmentality Genealogy, Government Liberalism, Critique and 'the Social' Neo-Liberalism and Foucault Dependency and Empowerment: Two Case Studies Dependency empowerment Conclusion Pastoral power, police and reason of state Pastoral Power Reason of state and Police Conclusion Bio-Politics and Sovereignty Bio-politics Sovereignty and the Governmentalization of the State Liberalism Economy Security Law and Norm Society and Social Government Author