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Foucault and the Modern InternationalThe Microphysics of Power Redux

Foucault and the Modern International: The Microphysics of Power Redux [This chapter argues for revisiting Foucault’s microphysics of power, and reconnecting this theme to the analysis of particular issues within world politics. A concern with microphysics can serve as a counter-weight to the tendency in recent post-Foucauldian scholarship to emphasize indirect forms of power while overlooking the presence of relations of force, violence and struggle. It can also give the body a more prominent place in international relations and security studies. The chapter draws on the study of deportation and migration control to develop these arguments. It calls not for a general re-adoption of the microphysics so much as attunement to contexts where it does provide effective and appropriate tools. The conclusion observes that the microphysics of power is not exhausted by the theme of discipline. If anything the powers that invest deportation are suggestive of a microphysics of police.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foucault and the Modern InternationalThe Microphysics of Power Redux

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Bonditti, Philippe; Bigo, Didier; Gros, Frédéric
Walters, William
Foucault and the Modern International — Feb 8, 2017
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-349-95098-0
Pages
57 –75
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-56153-4_4
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Abstract

[This chapter argues for revisiting Foucault’s microphysics of power, and reconnecting this theme to the analysis of particular issues within world politics. A concern with microphysics can serve as a counter-weight to the tendency in recent post-Foucauldian scholarship to emphasize indirect forms of power while overlooking the presence of relations of force, violence and struggle. It can also give the body a more prominent place in international relations and security studies. The chapter draws on the study of deportation and migration control to develop these arguments. It calls not for a general re-adoption of the microphysics so much as attunement to contexts where it does provide effective and appropriate tools. The conclusion observes that the microphysics of power is not exhausted by the theme of discipline. If anything the powers that invest deportation are suggestive of a microphysics of police.]

Published: Feb 8, 2017

Keywords: International Relation; World Politics; International Relation; Security Study; Disciplinary Power

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