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Governmentality, biopower, and everyday life

'Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life' synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in the context of familiar social contexts of inquiry including the family, workplace, and the military
Print Book, English, 2008
Routledge, New York, 2008
viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780415958547, 9780203894620, 9780415897969, 0415958547, 0203894626, 0415897963
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1. Introduction
2. Liberal governmentalities
3. Governing the self-regulating market
4. Governing population: Biopower, risk, and the politics of health
5. Governing population: Mind and brain as governmental spaces
6. Biopower, sovereignty, and America's global security
7. "Bad subjects" and liberal governmentalities