Abstract
In this book, I present a new Foucauldian reading of the international, via Foucault’s concept of ‘biopolitics’. I begin by surveying the existing Foucauldian perspectives on the international, which mostly take as their point of departure Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’, and mostly diagnose a ‘global governmentality’ or ‘global biopolitics’ in the current era of globalisation. Against these majority positions, I argue that analysis of the contemporary international through the lens of Foucauldian biopolitics in fact shows us that our world system is marked by a parasitic imperialism of rich sovereign states over poor ones, carried on at the level of populations.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Turkey |
Publisher | Pharmakon Kitap |
Number of pages | 83 |
ISBN (Print) | 9786056643217 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- international relations
- political science