Globalising foucault: Turning critique into apologia-a response to Kiersey and Rosenow

Global Society

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-142

  Chandler, David ^a  

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBALIZATION; POLITICAL THEORY;

EID: 77951081463     PISSN: 13600826     EISSN: 1469798X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600821003626120     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Doerthe Rosenow, "Decentring Global Power: The Merits of a Foucauldian Approach to International Relations", Global Society, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2009), pp. 497-517 (p. 497).
2. Nicholas Kiersey, "Neoliberal Political Economy and the Subjectivity of Crisis: Why Governmentality is Not Hollow", Global Society, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2009), pp. 363-386.
3. David Chandler, Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance (London: Pluto Press, 2009).
4. To use Jan Selby's expression; "Engaging Foucault: Discourse, Liberal Governance and the Limits of Foucauldian IR", International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2007), pp. 324-345.
5. For Foucault, politics only starts once the Prince rules through society rather than externally to it. See Foucault's discussion of Machiavelli, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977-1978 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), p. 65.
6. David Chandler, "Critiquing Liberal Cosmopolitanism? The Limits of the Biopolitical Approach", International Political Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2009), pp. 53-70.
7. Nicholas Kiersey and Jason Weidner, "Editorial Introduction", Global Society, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2009), pp. 353-361 (p. 358).
8. Kiersey, "Neoliberal Political Economy", op. cit., p. 384.
9. In my view, Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978-1979 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008)
10. tells us much more about the crisis of contemporary liberalism than the entire output of "Foucauldian IR"
11. see David Chandler, "Risk and the Biopolitics of Global Insecurity", Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 10, No. 2 (forthcoming 2010).
12. Kiersey, "Neoliberal Political Economy", op. cit., p. 385.
13. Ibid., pp. 365, 385.
14. Ibid., p. 376.
15. Ibid., p. 381.
16. Ibid., p. 365.
17. See Foucault's Birth of Biopolitics on the "shifts, transformations and inversions in traditional liberal doctrines" reflected in the rise of institutionalism and behavioural economics (p. 118).
18. Norberto Bobbio, Liberalism and Democracy (London: Verso, 1988), p. 9.
19. See Rosenow, op. cit.