Foucault and post-financial crises: governmentality, discipline and resistance
Foucault and post-financial crises: governmentality, discipline and resistance
This title explains the causes of the financial crisis and the economic reforms that were created subsequently through a Foucauldian philosophical lens. The author sets out the approaches established by Foucault – namely governmentality, biopolitics and disciplinary mechanisms – explaining how these influenced the shift of production from a local to a global level, alongside a shift towards financialisation. Glenn applies Foucauldian principles to aid understanding of the self-corrective mechanisms applied to the financial system, and the interpellative processes that led to the emergence of a new mode of subjectification. Concurrently, this title examines the retreat of the state from the financial sphere. This shift, the author posits, did not mean the complete absence of governance; rather governance became more concerned with ensuring that financial behaviour was contained within certain limits.
Foucault, marxism, Financial Crises
Glenn, John
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2019
Glenn, John
d843e423-d1f9-4be5-b667-8e44a42efff2
Glenn, John
(2019)
Foucault and post-financial crises: governmentality, discipline and resistance
(International Political Economy Series),
London.
Palgrave Macmillan, 210pp.
Abstract
This title explains the causes of the financial crisis and the economic reforms that were created subsequently through a Foucauldian philosophical lens. The author sets out the approaches established by Foucault – namely governmentality, biopolitics and disciplinary mechanisms – explaining how these influenced the shift of production from a local to a global level, alongside a shift towards financialisation. Glenn applies Foucauldian principles to aid understanding of the self-corrective mechanisms applied to the financial system, and the interpellative processes that led to the emergence of a new mode of subjectification. Concurrently, this title examines the retreat of the state from the financial sphere. This shift, the author posits, did not mean the complete absence of governance; rather governance became more concerned with ensuring that financial behaviour was contained within certain limits.
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 December 2017
Published date: 2019
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Foucault, marxism, Financial Crises
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