Law versus history: Foucault’s genealogy of modern sovereignty

Foucault on Politics, Security and War

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 135-150

  Valverde, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 85011438796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230229846_7     Document Type: Chapter

References (2)

1. This chapter emerged from a paper given at the ‘Sovereignty and the Right of Death’ conference at the Cleveland-Marshall Law School in 2003.
2. ‘At the end of the sixteenth century we have, then, if not the first, at least an early example of the sort of boomerang effect colonial practice can have on the juridico-political structures of the West. It should never be forgotten that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West’ (Foucault, 2003b: p. 103).