Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 105-131

  Ferguson, James ^a   Gupta, Akhil ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural production; Globalization; Political economy; State spatialization; Transnational governmentality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889272827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470775875.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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