'Foucault on Politics, Society and War' interrogates Foucault's controversialgenealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war. MICHAEL DILLON is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, UK. He has published widely on politics of security and on political and cultural theory. Among his books are 'Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of ContinentalThought' (1996). Michael Dillon is also co-editor of 'The Journal of CulturalResearch'. . . ANDREW W. NEAL is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His PhD, which he is currently developing for publication as 'Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism: Liberty, Security and the War on Terror', won the British International Studies Association thesis prize in 2006. He has published articles as sole and joint author onFoucault, exceptionalism and critical approaches to security. INDICE: Introduction; 'M.Dillon& A.W.Neal - 'PART I: SITUATING FOUCAULT - Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as Collaborateur; 'S.Elden - 'PART II: POLITICS, SOVEREIGNTY, VIOLENCE - Goodbye War on Terror? Foucault and Butler onDiscourses of Law, War and Exceptionalism; 'A.W.Neal' - Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault; 'J.Reid' - Security: A Field Left Fallow; 'D.Bigo' - Revisiting Franco's Death: Life and Death and Bio-Political Governmentality; 'P.Palladino' - PART III: BIOS, NOMOS, RACE - Law Versus History: Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty; 'M.Valverde' - The Politics of Death: Race War, Bio-Power and AIDS in the Post-Apartheid; 'D.Fassin' - Security, Race, and War; 'M.Dillon' -
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-9904-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 25/09/2008
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