Re: Foucault and geography
Recent engagement with the governmentality approach in the
"non-Anglo world", and by geographers, include:
*Michael Watts in the Singapore Journal of
Tropical Geography (Volume 24: Issue 1, March 2003), with
commentaries by JK Gibson-Graham, Marcus Power and others.
* Victoria A. Lawson 'Global
Governmentality and Graduated Sovereignty: national belonging among
poor migrants in Ecuador' in the Scottish Geographical Journal,
118(3), 2003.
*Katharine Rankin on the government of
development via microcredit in Economy and Society, 30(1),
2001.
And while not capital G geographers, a cluster of anthropologists
at Berkeley are working in a very geographically sensitive way via
"critical ethnographies of globalization and
governmentality". A summary link is here:
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/government.html#OVERVIEW.
Needless to say the Berkeley Geog links are obvious here.
I am enjoying reading some of their work for they grapple with
methodological issues in a very direct way.
Thanks for all the recent input on this list...I am enjoying (and
learning from) the messages.
Kris
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