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Governmentality

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Sangeeta Ray
  • Henry Schwarz

Summary, in English

Governmentality, a concept which originates from the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, primarily relates to an analytics of power which highlights the artificiality of government. The term refers to a way of understanding the functioning of power as that which emanates from diverse societal institutions rather than one centralized, top‐down source, such as the sovereign state. Over the last 20 years studies in governmentality have gained impetus and have led to the development of a variety of approaches across multiple disciplines, all of which use the concept in some way as a theoretical tool. Understood as such, governmentality can be viewed as a bundle of useful methods for understanding and unraveling how power functions in different social and historical contexts, and how different societies think about power. This entry discusses developments in the field.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

Volym

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i uppslagsverk

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • General Literature Studies

Nyckelord

  • literary theory
  • philosophy
  • poststructuralism
  • sovereignty

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9781444334982