Jason Weidner is looking for panelists for the following session. Contact him for details:
International Studies Association (ISA) 16-19 March 2011, Montreal
Call for Participants for a Proposed Panel: Global Governance as Governmentality
The “global governance” paradigm has become increasingly central to the study of world politics, offering an analytical framework for investigating the shift in political authority away from its traditional locus in the nation-state. In recent years, the global governance paradigm has been challenged by a growing body of research that draws inspiration from Michel Foucault’s analytics of “governmentality.” This “global governmentality” approach has offered a critique of, and an alternative to, theories and discourses of global governance, by (1) critically examining the connection between the language of governance and its associated political imaginary, and (2) by drawing attention to the diverse governmental assemblages—combinations of expert forms of knowledge, political technologies and rationalities—that seek to order political reality, but which are occluded by the global governance paradigm.
Furthermore, the recently released publication and translation of Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, have opened up a number of new directions for critical analyses of governmental assemblages and their relation to broader questions of power and world order.
The aim of this panel is to contribute to the growing governmentality research program and to offer a critical alternative to the dominant global governance paradigm. We are particularly interested in innovative papers that combine the theoretical with the empirical, and which contribute to the advancement of a governmentality approach to issues most often grouped under the category of “global governance.”
Please email paper proposals (250 words) by May 21st, 2010 to:
Jason Weidner: jas_weidner@hotmail.com
Jason Weidner
Department of Politics & International Relations
Florida International University
Miami, FL USA
Filed under: Biopolitics, Governmentality, Security Territory Population
