Description
This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive disciplinary fields of governmentality - a concept introduced by Foucault himself - and South Asian studies. It aims to chart the intersection of post-structuralism and postcolonialism that has seen the latter Foucault being used to ask new questions in and of South Asia, and the experiences of post-colonies used to tease and test the utility of European philosophy beyond Europe. But it also seeks to contribute to the rich body of work on South Asian governmentalities through a critical engagement with the lecture series delivered by Foucault at the College de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English.
This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.
About the Author
Stephen Legg is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is a specialist on interwar colonial India with a particular interest in the politics of urban space within imperial and international frames. He has analyzed these spaces and frames through drawing upon theoretical approaches from memory scholarship, postcolonialism, political theory and governmentality studies. His publications include Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2007), Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India (2014) and the edited collection Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (2011). Deana Heath is a senior lecturer in Indian history at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on colonialism, the body, and state power. She is the co-editor of Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora (2010), and author of Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia (Cambridge, 2010). Her current research focuses on various forms of embodied violence in colonial India, including torture, sexual violence against men, and interpersonal violence.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108428514
Author Stephen Legg
Format Hardback
Page Count 278
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 490g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 20mm
This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.
About the Author
Stephen Legg is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is a specialist on interwar colonial India with a particular interest in the politics of urban space within imperial and international frames. He has analyzed these spaces and frames through drawing upon theoretical approaches from memory scholarship, postcolonialism, political theory and governmentality studies. His publications include Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2007), Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India (2014) and the edited collection Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (2011). Deana Heath is a senior lecturer in Indian history at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on colonialism, the body, and state power. She is the co-editor of Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora (2010), and author of Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia (Cambridge, 2010). Her current research focuses on various forms of embodied violence in colonial India, including torture, sexual violence against men, and interpersonal violence.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108428514
Author Stephen Legg
Format Hardback
Page Count 278
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 490g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 20mm
