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South Asian governmentalities, Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings, edited by Stephen Legg, Deana Heath

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South Asian governmentalities, Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings, edited by Stephen Legg, Deana Heath

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eng

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non fiction

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South Asian governmentalities

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

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1065523544

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edited by Stephen Legg, Deana Heath

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South Asia in the social sciencesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings

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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.--, Provided by publisher

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