Hi Steve,
On India, I noticed that the following book is out. It looks
interesting and substantial. Has anyone read it? It seems to be
developing aspects of Poulantzas's reading of Foucault in _State,
Power, Socialism_ (especially what he says regarding space and time,
and also individualization) but I'm wondering how it incorporates
aspects of later governmentality work within postcolonial studies; it
seems to draw on Stoler (Race and the Education of Desire) and Dirks
(Castes of Mind). Details taken from amazon.com below
best of luck with this project - I'm interested to read the results
David
Producing India : From Colonial Economy to National Space (Chicago
Studies in Practices of Meaning)
by Manu Goswami
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When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire
self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements
demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture,
and people?
Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched
practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated
privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and
political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions
of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of
colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate
dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and
postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century
conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed
an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of
nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present
moment.
Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be
invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and
Asian studies.
About the Author
Manu Goswani is an assistant professor of history and East Asia studies
at New York University.
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On 20/07/2005, at 11:56 PM, S. Legg wrote:
Hello list members,
I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice or references with
regards
to the tensions between the domains/realms of government to which
Foucault
referred in his later governmental work. I am particularly interested
in
the way in which “biopolitical” and “economic” rationalities may have
come
into conflict. Colin Gordon mentioned such tensions in his
introduction to
the Foucault Effect, namely, the effects on the urban environment and
working classes of un-regulated laissz faire economics. Mitchell Dean
has
also commented on the tensions between rationalities that may
reasonably be
said to coexist within a regime of liberal governmentality.
To set some context, I am interpreting the private writings a
low(ish)-level administrator in colonial India, who was put in charge
of
urban improvement in the 1930s. His views were incredibly ambivalent
towards the central government, but this was not just the colonial, and
psychological, ambivalence of Homi Bhabha. Rather, this was a
commitment to
the colonial ideas of Progress and Improvement, but a growing distaste
for
imperial financial restrictions. As such, a tension became apparent
between
the colonial economic model of non-intervention and maximum profit and
the
emerging European model of welfare in which the lives of the “native”
population should have been cared for. This tension was also, of
course, in
evidence in European cities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries,
but I
suspect it was starker and longer lasting in the colonial context.
Any advice greatly appreciated!
Many thanks
Steve
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