Poverty reduction and the new global governmentality

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Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-51

  Joseph, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foucault; Governmentality; Poverty; PRSP; World Bank

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EID: 77951876417     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437541003500102     Document Type: Article

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1. For example, Larner and Walters write: "What we have called global governmentality entails a move of 'bracketing' the world of underlying forces and causes, and instead examining the different ways in which the real has been inscribed in thought." See Wendy Larner and William Walters, "Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces," in Larner and Walters, eds., Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces (London: Rout- ledge, 2005), p. 16.
2. Jonathan Joseph, European Journal of International Relations 6, no. 2 (2010).
3. Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population (Basingstoke, UK: Pal- grave Macmillan, 2007), p. 8.
4. Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 147.
5. Mitchell Dean, Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (London: Sage, 1999).
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7. Graham Burchell, "Liberal Government and Techniques of the Self," in Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, and Nikolas Rose, eds., Foucault and Political Reason (London: UCL Press, 1996), pp. 19-36.
8. Dean, Governmentality, p. 165.
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11. Bob Jessop, State Power (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2007), p. 152.
12. Micro powers may then be "colonised, used, inflected, transformed, displaced, extended, and so on by increasingly general mechanisms and forms of overall domination": Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended (Har- mondsworth, UK: Penguin, 2004), p. 301.
13. The great strategies of power encrust themselves and depend for their conditions of exercise on the level of the micro-relations of power. But there are always also movements in the other direction, whereby strategies that coordinate relations of power produce new effects and advance into hitherto unaffected domains: Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon (New York: Pantheon, 1980), pp. 199-200.
14. Jessop, State Power, p. 37.
15. Jessop, State Power, Ibid., p. 29.
16. Jessop, State Power,Ibid., p. 79.
17. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, p. 109.
18. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population,Ibid., p. 108.
19. Antonio Gramsci, Selections From the Prison Notebooks (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971), p. 238.
20. World Bank, World Development Report: Attacking Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 195.
21. Jeni Klugman, "Overview," A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies, Volume I: Core Techniques and Cross-Cutting Issues (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002), p. 6.
22. World Bank, Results-Based National Development Strategies: Assessments and Challenges Ahead (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2007), p. 1.
23. Results-Based National Development Strategies: Assessments and Challenges Ahead, Ibid., p. 2.
24. Results-Based National Development Strategies: Assessments and Challenges Ahead, Ibid., p. xii.
25. Results-Based National Development Strategies: Assessments and Challenges Ahead, Ibid., p. xvi.
26. Results-Based National Development Strategies: Assessments and Challenges Ahead, Ibid., p. xvii.
27. Results-Based National Development Strategies: Assessments and Challenges Ahead, Ibid., p. 6.
28. World Bank, Enabling Country Capacity to Achieve Results, Volume 1: Overview 2005 CDF Progress Report (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2005), p. 4.
29. Tore Fougner, "Neoliberal Governance of States: The Role of Competitiveness Indexing and Country Benchmarking," Millennium 37, no. 2 (2008): 303-326, at 319.
30. Jacqueline Best, "Why the Economy Is Often the Exception to Politics as Usual," Theory, Culture and Society 24, no. 4 (2007): 87-109, at 93.
31. See Vera Wilhelm and Philipp Krause, eds., Minding the Gaps: Integrating Poverty Reduction Strategies and Budgets for Domestic Accountability (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2008), pp. 43, 46.
32. World Bank, Overview 2005 CDF Progress Report, p. 17.
33. Wilhelm and Krause, Minding the Gaps, p. 1.
34. World Bank, Overview 2005 CDF Progress Report, p. 19.
35. Overview 2005 CDF Progress Report, Ibid., p. 19.
36. Claire Mercer, "Engineering Civil Society: ICT in Tanzania," Review of African Political Economy 99 (2004): 49-64, at 54.
37. Julie Hearn, "Uses and Abuses of Civil Society in Africa," Review of African Political Economy 28, no. 87 (2001): 43-53, at 51.
38. World Bank, World Development Report: Attacking Poverty, p. 39.
39. World Development Report: Attacking Poverty, Ibid., pp. 6, 7 and at 39.
40. World Development Report: Attacking Poverty, Ibid., p. 8.
41. Klugman, "Overview," p. 4.
42. For accounts of how these processes represent forms of governmentality, see Jens Henrik Haahr, "Open Co-ordination as Advanced Liberal Government," Journal of European Public Policy 11, no. 2 (2003): 209-230.
43. Tore Fougner, "Neoliberal Governance of States: The Role of Competitiveness Indexing and Country Benchmarking," Millennium 37, no. 2 (2008): 303-326.
44. Paul Cammack, "Poverty Reduction and Universal Competitiveness, " Labor, Capital, and Society 42, nos. 1-2 (2009): 35-54, at 50.
45. Paul Cammack, Labor, Capital, and Society, Ibid., p. 34.
46. Paul Cammack, Labor, Capital, and Society, Ibid., p. 34.
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48. Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics, p. 2.
49. Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics, Ibid., p. 63.
50. Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics, Ibid., p. 121.
51. Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics, Ibid., p. 145.
52. Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics, Ibid., p. 147.
53. Ruckert, "Towards an Inclusive-Neoliberal Regime," p. 38.
54. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology ofKnowledge (London: Routledge, 1989), p. 162.
55. Ruckert, "Towards an Inclusive-Neoliberal Regime," p. 40.
56. Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism (London: New Left Books, 1978).
57. Richard Marsden The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault (London: Routledge, 1999).
58. Cammack, "Poverty Reduction," p. 47.
59. Hiroyuki Tosa, "Anarchical Governance: Neoliberal Governance in Resonance with the State of Exception," International Political Sociology 3 (2009): 414-440.
60. Best, "Why the Economy Is Often the Exception," p. 96.
61. Joel Lazarus, "Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers," Third World Quarterly 29, no. 6 (2008): 1207.