Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America

ISBN-13: 9780521660334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 262 str.

Matthew G. Hannah

Opis

Late nineteenth-century America was a time of industrialization and urbanization. Immigration was increasing and traditional hierarchies were being challenged. Combining empirical and theoretical material, Hannah explores the modernization of the American federal government during this period. Discussions of gender, race and colonial knowledge engage with Foucault's ideas on "governmentality." Through an analysis of the work of Francis A. Walker, a prominent political economist and educator of the time, the author demonstrates that the modernization of the American national state was a thoroughly spatial and explicitly geographical project.

Recenzje

'… such a laudable and welcome contribution to the literature on states, spatial politics, and regulatory theory … Because Hannah's prose is so clear and because he makes generous use of rich historical detail he is concrete enough to be read by senior undergraduates; because his theory is so robust he is worthy of being read by professional academics '. Environment & Planning D: Society & Space

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Governmentality in context; Part I: 2. The formation of governmental objects in late nineteenth century American discourse; 3. Francis A. Walker and the formation of American governmental subjectivity; 4. American manhood and the strains of governmental subjectivity; Part II: 5. The spatial politics of governmental knowledge; 6. An American exceptionalist political economy; 7. Manhood, space and governmental regulation; Conclusion.