The Biopolitics of Development Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mezzadra, Sandro (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Reid, Julian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Samaddar, Ranabir (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Political science.; Political theory.; International relations.; Cultural studies.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Theory.; International Relations.; Cultural Studies.; Political Science.

This book offers an original analytic and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault’s works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political s...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• “Foucault and His “Other”:  Subjectivation and Displacement
• Foucault’s Texts: Accumulation, Population Management and the Biopolitics of Our Age
• Where is the Human in Human-Centred approaches to Development? A Biopolitical Critique of Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom
• The Biocolonial Roots of Resilience in Africa
• Biopolitics and Marginality: The Case of Muslims in Mumbai
• Biological Citizens: Risk and Radiation in Southwest India
• Biopolitics and Religion in the Postcolonial Present
• Amazon, Struggle Terrain: Development, Primitive Accumulation and the Contested Government of Nature
• Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Rights, Utility and Adaptive Capacity in Peacebuilding.