Rethinking law, society and governance : Foucault's bequest / edited by Gary Wickman and George Pavlich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pavlich, George C. (George Clifford), 1960- editor.

Wickham, Gary, 1951- editor.

Series:

Oñati international series in law and society.

Oñati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Law--Political aspects.

Law.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This set of essays engages with some aspects of Foucault's notion of governmentality,particularly at the junction where law/regulation meets 'the social'. 'The social', as a special sphere of government, is a special area of concern for those working within broad intellectual spaces of the 'governmentality approach'. Is it the basis of modern liberal systems of government? Is it dead, or even feeling unwell? Has it spawned hybrid forms of government like neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, or even neo-socialism? In making their presence felt in the debates that have flourished around such questions, especially by highlighting the subtleties of the roles played by law and regulation in the governance of the social, the authors of the essays - David Brown; Jo Goodie; Russell Hogg and Kerry Carrington; Jeff Malpas; Pat O'Malley; George Pavlich; Annette Pedersen; Kevin Stenson; William Walters - range widely. There are pieces on liberal government and resistance to it, some on particular targets of this government, like unemployment, crime, 'law and order', even Australian geography, environment and cultural products, and some that delve into philosophical/methodological issues."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Transforming Images: Society, Law and Critique

PART I: GENEALOGICAL ENTRIES: GOVERNANCE,THE SOCIAL AND THE COLONIES: 1. Genealogy, Systemisation and Resistance in "Advanced Liberalism" ; 2. Governing Images of the Australian Police Trooper ; 3. Governing Rural Australia: Land, Space and Race ; 4. Governing Unemployment: Transforming "the Social"

PART II: LAW, CRIME AND THE POLITICS OF CO-SOCIAL GOVERNANCE: 5. The Invention of the Environment as a Subject of Legal Governance ; 6. Reconstructing the Government of Crime ; 7. Governmentality and Law and Order

PART III: REFRAMING ONTOLOGY AND CRITIQUE: 8. Governing Theory: Ontology, Methodology and the Critique of Metaphysics ; 9. The Art of Critique or How Not to be Governed Thus.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-170) and index.

ISBN:

9786611042066

9781841132945

1841132942

9781472562449

1472562445

9781281042064

1281042064

9781847313249

1847313248

OCLC:

476111357