MICHEL FOUCAULT, info.

Dear Keith,

There is lots of interesting work emerging on postcolonial/Foucauldian 
lines, a couple of the ones I find most useful are below:

See the shift in Said from devotion to rejection of Foucault in the 
following two pieces: * Said E. 1972. Michel Foucault as an intellectual 
imagination. Boundary 2, 1: 1-36. * Said E (1986) Foucault and the 
imagination of power. In Foucault: A Critical Reader. Hoy D C (ed): 
Blackwell, Oxford.

Others took up Foucault, however, including Chatterjee as noted in a 
previous email. For one of the most indepth applications of a 
governmentality approach to the colonial context see:

* Prakash G. 1999. Another reason: science and the imagination of modern 
India. Princeton University Press: Princeton, N.J; Chichester

But also see * Chatterjee P. 2004. The politics of the governed: 
reflections on popular politics in most of the world. Columbia University 
Press: New York.

More textual based investigations can be seen in: * Lowe L. 1991. Critical 
terrains: French and British orientalisms. Cornell University press: 
Ithaca; London.

And I think Behadad's incredible book also explores Foucault: * Behdad A. 
1994. Belated Travellers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution. 
Cork University Press: Cork.

There have been some interesting works by geographers along these lines, 
for instance Clayton's work on British Columbia, Gregory's work on 
Said/Foucault and the colonial present and Robinson's work on South 
Africa:-

* Clayton D. 2000. Islands of Truth: the Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver 
Island. University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver. * Gregory D. 1998. 
Power, knowledge and geography - The Hettner lecture in human geography. 
Geographische Zeitschrift, 86: 70-93. * Gregory D. 2004. The colonial 
present. Blackwell: Oxford. * Gregory, D. 2005. The lightning of possible 
storms. Antipode 36(5) 798-808 (An obituary piece for Said from a 
Foucauldian perspective) * Robinson J. 1997. The geopolitics of South 
African cities - States, citizens, territory. Political Geography, 16: 
365-386.

Corbridge et al have a forthcoming book which applies the governmentality 
work to the development context of postcolonial India, and (excuse me) I 
have a small chapter which attempts to make some links here too: * 
Corbridge S, Williams G, Srivastava M and Véron R. forthcoming 2005. Seeing 
the State: Governance and Governmentality in Rural India. Cambridge 
University Press: Cambridge. * Legg S (forthcoming 2005) Post-Colonial 
Developmentalities: From the Delhi Improvement Trust to the Delhi 
Development Authority. In Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India. 
Corbridge S, Kumar S and Raju S (ed): SAGE, London.

Another plug: these refs are from a chapter roughly entitled "Beyond the 
European Province: Foucault and Postcolonialism" for a book on Foucault and 
Geography edited by Stuart Elden and Jeremy Crampton. This should be out 
next year some time.

All the best
Steve

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Dr Stephen Legg
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
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Cambridge
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www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/legg/
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