South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings
- Submitting institution
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The University of Liverpool
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 14799
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108571982
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108428514
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Deana Heath is the sole author of one chapter: "The Tortured Body: The Irrevocable Tension Between Sovereign and Biopower in Colonial Technologies of Rule". She also co-wrote an extensive introduction: "Introducing South Asian Governmentalities". This interdisciplinary volume arose from a British Academy-funded network that Heath co-led, with co-editor Stephen Legg, on "South Asian Governmentalities", from 2009-2018, most notably from the three workshops the network held in New Delhi (at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in 2011) and in London (at the British Academy in 2013 and at University College London in 2015). The co-editors jointly selected volume contributors from among the workshop participants, with an emphasis on ensuring a strong representation of scholars from South Asia (based in both the Global North and South). To ensure a coherent interpretive framework and line of argument, the co-editors arranged for all contributors to read all other contributions to the volume and to respond to these in their respective chapters. Heath then worked intensively with each contributor to develop the insights they were striving to shed both on Foucault's work on governmentality and on the operation of governmentalizing processes in South Asia. Heath was responsible for the bulk of the copy-editing, proof-reading and indexing of the volume.
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