Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon

Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 50-79

  Redfield, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Cultural anthropology; Educational institution; Modernity; Writings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889471638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470775875.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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