TY - BOOK AU - Legg,Stephen AU - Heath,Deana TI - South Asian governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings T2 - South Asia in the social sciences SN - 9781108571982 AV - JQ98 .S68 2018 U1 - 320.954 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Foucault, Michel, KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - Government KW - General KW - National KW - Reference KW - fast KW - South Asia KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introducing South Asian governmentalities / Deana Heath and Stephen Legg -- Governmentality in the East / Partha Chatterjee -- Pastoral care, the reconstitution of pastoral power and the creation of disobedient subjects under colonialism / Indrani Chatterjee -- The abiding binary: the social and the political in modern India / Prathama Banerjee -- Colonial and nationalist truth regimes: empire, Europe and the latter Foucault / Stephen Legg -- Law as economy/economy as governmentality: convention, corporation, currency / Ritu Birla -- Do elephants have souls? Animal subjectivities and colonial encounters / Jonathan Saha -- Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India / Sarah Hodges -- Changing the subject: from feminist governmentality to technologies of the (feminist) self / Srila Roy -- The tortured body: the irrevocable tension between sovereign and biopower in colonial Indian technologies of rule / Deana Heath -- The subject in question / Gerry Kearns N2 - 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 Coll�ge de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1854811 ER -