Neoliberalism: A Foucauldian Perspective

The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been used extensively in anthropology as neolib...

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Published inInternational review of social research Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 109 - 124
Main Author Cotoi, Călin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published POLIROM Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială 01.06.2011
POLIROM University of Bucharest - Dept. of Sociology and Social Work
De Gruyter Open
Subjects
ethnography
governance
governmentality
neoliberalism
Social Sciences
neoliberalism
governmentality
ethnography
governance
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Summary:The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been used extensively in anthropology as neoliberal governmentalities have been spreading after the 1990s all over the world. A return to Foucault can help to clarify some overtly ideological uses of ‘neoliberalism’ in nowadays social sciences.
ISSN:2069-8534
2069-8534
DOI:10.1515/irsr-2011-0014