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- Title: Rethinking Politics: Archaeologies, Genealogies, Ethics (Introduction) (Work Overview)
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
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Over the last couple of decades, the emergence of neoliberalism as the dominant organizing imperative across social and public spaces and institutions, coupled with the exceptionalism of imperial and often violent, authoritarian forms of 'democracy,' has fostered a rethinking of politics across a wide range of contexts. Rethinking politics through critical intervention necessitates an engagement with conceptual forms, even epistemes, of an earlier theorisation of politics. These engagements require thus not only a diagnosis of the operations and processes of present forms of power but a theorisation of how to diagnose, how to critique, and how to intervene. In effect, the essays in this issue of Borderlands respond precisely to this problematic. If neoliberalism and its accompanying authoritarian forms of governance, productive of both neoliberalised subjects and subjects terrorised by its violence, can be 'interrupted by fracturing its assumed coherence' through 'critical responses and interventions,' the following essays do just this (Grewal, 2005: 19). In the spirit and technique of a Foucauldian interruption, the essays disturb the naturalized or seamless forms of governmentality and discipline, spatial arrangements of violence and entertainment, the disciplining techniques of institutional procedures, moralizing judgements, and popular conservative assertions of subjectivity spawned by neoliberal authoritarianism. Though each of the authors examines sites which are geographically and historically specific, which may or may not be related to each other, it is this sense of grappling with a rethinking of politics through archaeologies, genealogies and ethics in the Foucauldian sense that provides a point of reference for all five essays. The essays, therefore, offer ways of rethinking not only politics but also ways of retheorising sites and subjects of the epistemological and the political--Guantanamo Bay, Disneyland, conservative female politicians, migration and multiculturalism, disciplines and the academy, and mass protest movements.