Neoliberalism: A Foucauldian Perspective

• Authors: Călin Cotoi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been used extensively in anthropology as neoliberal governmentalities have been spreading after the 1990s all over the world. A return to Foucault can help to clarify some overtly ideological uses of ‘neoliberalism’ in nowadays social sciences.

Keywords

EN

governmentality; governance; ethnography; neoliberalism

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 109-124

Dates

published

2011-06-01

online

2015-05-04

Contributors

author

Călin Cotoi

• University of Bucharest

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2011-0014