Rethinking Law, Society and Governance Foucault's Bequest

by Pavlich, George; Wickham, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781841132938
• ISBN10: 1841132934
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Hart Publishing

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.

Author Biography

Gary Wickham is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Murdoch University in Western Australia.
George Pavlich is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Transforming Images: Society, Law and Critique	1	(12)
George Pavlich
PART I: GENEALOGICAL ENTRIES: GOVERNANCE, THE SOCIAL AND THE COLONIES
Genealogy, Systemisation and Resistance in ``Advanced Liberalism''	13	(14)
Pat O'Malley
Governing Images of the Australian Police Trooper	27	(16)
Annette Pedersen
Governing Rural Australia: Land, Space and Race	43	(18)
Russell Hogg
Kerry Carrington
Governing Unemployment: Transforming ``the Social''	61	(18)
William Walters
PART II: LAW, CRIME AND THE POLITICS OF CO-SOCIAL GOVERNANCE
The Invention of the Environment as a Subject of Legal Governance	79	(14)
Jo Goodie
Reconstructing the Government of Crime	93	(16)
Kevin Stenson
Governmentality and Law and Order	109	(16)
David Brown
PART III: REFRAMING ONTOLOGY AND CRITIQUE
Governing Theory: Ontology, Methodology and the Critique of Metaphysics	125	(16)
Jeff Malpas
The Art of Critique or How Not to be Governed Thus	141	(14)
George Pavlich
Bibliography	155	(16)
Index	171