Contextualizing Family Planning

Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government

Mihnea Panu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2009
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-60798-9 (ISBN)

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This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for contemporary liberalism to govern legitimately, governmental discourses have to create and subsequently alienate certain identities as "other" that is, as the polar opposite of the good, normal citizen. These identities usually center on the poor, the racialised, and the gendered. These arguably discriminatory practices are illustrated through the investigation of the U.S. bio- and anatomo-politics of reproduction in the national family planning strategy, in an analytical framework that relates them to the welfare benefit policies in the same country. Panu argues that as long as neo-liberal governmental apparatuses map and rule society using this combination of "othering" and foundational assumptions, each governmental intervention reinforces the systems that make domination, inequality, and exclusion possible.

MIHNEA PANU is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada.

Government, Truth and Subjectivity in a 'Post-substance' Reality The Other in Liberal Governmentality Governing the Nation's Reproduction: Race as Pathology Governing the Nation's Reproduction: Culture, Poverty and Eugenics Patriarchal Orders of Reality in the Apparatuses of Sexuality-regulation Strategies of Truth and the Formation of Governmental Reality Liberal Governing and the Contemporary Political Imagination

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.11.2009
Zusatzinfo	VII, 244 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-230-60798-5 / 0230607985
ISBN-13	978-0-230-60798-9 / 9780230607989
Zustand	Neuware