Contesting the political: Butler and foucault on power and resistance

Journal of Political Philosophy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 253-272

  Mills, Catherine ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0042862997     PISSN: 09638016     EISSN: 14679760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9760.00177     Document Type: Article

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34. Foucault, Discipline and Punish, p. 30.
35. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Toward a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985), especially pp. 149-94.
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45. Butler, Excitable Speech, p. 162.
46. Michel Foucault, ''Governmentality'', Ideology and Consciousness, 6 (1979), 5- 21
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49. Butler, Excitable Speech, p.3.
50. Butler, Excitable Speech, p. 50; cf. p. 102.
51. Butler, ''Poststructuralism and postmarxism'', p. 10.