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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality Colin Gordon, Graham Burchell, Peter Miller
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

London: Penguin (originally published 1860). Chicago, The Chicago University Press. Michel Foucault, “Governmentality”, Ch. The effect of this has been that governmentality studies have focused heavily on (neo)liberal government and subjectivity, emphasizing how people are governed, and govern themselves, “through freedom” (Rose 1999). Foucault defines governmentality as the sum of institutions, tactics, and procedures which enable “this very specific, albeit very complex, power that has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge, and apparatuses of . The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, tr. €�«Popular life» and insurance technology” en G. This literature however draws on too narrow a conception of freedom thereby leaving comparatively unexplored the broader implications of the analytics of government that Foucault initiated. 4 in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991), pp. With similar legislation regarding sex re-assignment and sterilization (Mother Jones), one can trace an almost straight line back to the preventative logic of the smallpox epidemic in the eighteenth century Europe which Foucault studies. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality.