Foucault and the Modern International: Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics

ISBN-13: 9781349950980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 376 str.

Philippe Bonditti; Didier Bigo; Frederic Gros

Opis

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world-'international', 'neoliberal', 'biopolitical' and 'global'- and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault's work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally.

Recenzje

"Foucault and the Modern International is an intellectually dense and highly analytical text that contributes to the debate on the place of Foucault in the evolution of IR, both as a discipline and a reality to be studied. Its contribution is an important one ... ." (Julien Pomare de, European Review of International Studies ERIS, Vol. 5 (1), 2018)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The International as an Object for Thought

Philippe Bonditti

SECTION 1 — DE-DISCIPLINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL

2. The Figure of Foucault and the Field of International Relations

Nicholas Onuf

3. Michel Foucault and International Relations: Cannibal Relations

Didier Bigo

4. Microphysics Of Power Redux

William Walters

SECTION 2 — BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD

5. Political Spirituality: Parrhesia, Truth And Factical Finitude

Michael Dillon

6. Power as Sumbolon: Sovereignty, Governmentality and the International

Mitchell Dean

7. Foucault and Method

Michael J. Shapiro

SECTION 3 — INTERNATIONAL?

8. Silencing Colonialism: Foucault And the International 

Marta Fernández and Paulo Esteves

9. Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism

Philippe Bonditti

10. Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization

Jean-François Bayart

SECTION 4 — (NEO-)LIBERAL?

11. On Liberalism: Limits, the Market and the Subject

Frédéric Gros

12. On Bureaucratic Formalization: The Reality-Like Fiction of Neoliberal Abstractions

Béatrice Hibou

13. Too-Late Liberalism: From Promised Prosperity to Permanent Austerity

Laurence McFalls & Mariella Pandolfi

SECTION 5 — BIOPOLITICAL?

14. Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century: The Malthus-Marx Debate and the Human Capital Issue

Luca Paltrinieri

15. Mesopolitics: Foucault, Environmental Governmentality and the History of the Anthropocene

Ferhat Taylan

SECTION 6 — GLOBAL?

16. The Word and the Things: An Archaeology of An Amnesic Notion

Armand Mattelart

17. Foucault and Geometrics

Stuart Elden

18. Conclusion: Which Foucault? Which International?

R.B.J Walker

O autorze

Philippe Bonditti holds a doctorate in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris, France, and is currently Lecturer at the European School of Political and Social Science (ESPOL-UCL), France. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontificial Universidade Catholica in Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), Brazil, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute, Brown University, US. His research interests focus on contemporary discourses on violence, war, and security, the transformations of the modern state and the art of government, (critical) International Relations theory, (critical) security studies, contemporary French philosophy, and political theory.

Didier Bigo is Associate Professor (tenure) at Sciences-Po, France and Professor of International Relations at Kings College London, UK. Bigo is Editor-in-Chief of the French quarterly journal Cultures & Conflits and launched, with R. B. J. Walker, the journal International Political Sociology. His research interests include security and liberty, biometrics identifiers and databases, antiterrorist policies in Europe after 9/11, the merging of internal security and external security, migrants and refugees in Europe, critical security studies, and international political sociology. 

Frédéric Gros is Professor of Philosophy at Sciences Po Paris, France. His research focuses on contemporary French philosophy—in particular the thought of Michel Foucault, whose writings, such as Subjectivity and Truth, he has edited—the foundations of the right to punish, issues of war and security, and the ethics of the political subject.

Blurb

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The contributors question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world—‘international,’ ‘(neo)liberal,’ ‘biopolitical’ and ‘global’—and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault’s work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally.

Philippe Bonditti is Assistant Professor at the European School of Political and Social Science (ESPOL-UCL), France. 

Didier Bigo is Associate Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France, and Professor of International Relations at Kings College London, UK. 

Frédéric Gros is Professor of Philosophy at Sciences Po Paris, France.