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Foucault on Politics, Security and War

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Michael Dillon, Andrew W. Neal
      Pages 1-18
  3. Situating Foucault

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Strategies for Waging Peace

      • Stuart Elden
      Pages 21-39
  4. Politics, Sovereignty, Violence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
    2. Goodbye War on Terror?

      • Andrew W. Neal
      Pages 43-64
    3. Life Struggles

      • Julian Reid
      Pages 65-92
    4. Security

      • Didier Bigo
      Pages 93-114
    5. Revisiting Franco’s Death

      • Paolo Palladino
      Pages 115-131
  5. Bios, Nomos, Race

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Law versus History

      • Mariana Valverde
      Pages 135-150
    3. The Politics of Death

      • Didier Fassin
      Pages 151-165
    4. Security, Race and War

      • Michael Dillon
      Pages 166-196
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 197-243

About this book

Foucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Lancaster, UK

    Michael Dillon

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Andrew W. Neal

About the editors

MICHAEL DILLON is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, UK. He has published widely on politics of security and on political and cultural theory. Among his books are Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental Thought (1996). Michael Dillon is also co-editor of The Journal of Cultural Research. 
 
ANDREW W. NEAL is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His PhD, which he is currently developing for publication as Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism: Liberty, Security and the War on Terror, won the British International Studies Association thesis prize in 2006. He has published articles as sole and joint author on Foucault, exceptionalism and critical approaches to security.

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