Security and Global Governmentality

Security and Global Governmentality
Author: Miguel de Larrinaga
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2010-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135233047

This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two. The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society allows us to consider the connection of two broad possible dynamics: the global governmentalization of security and the securitization of global governance. If Foucault's work on governmentality and security has found resonance in IR scholarship in recent years it is in large part due to his understanding of how these forms of power must necessarily take into account the management of circulation that, in seeking to maximize ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ circulatory flows, brings into play and problematizes the 'inside'/'outside' upon which domestic and international spaces have been traditionally understood. Indeed, Foucault introduces a set of conceptual tools that can inform our analyses of globalization, global governance and security in ways that have been left largely unexplored in the discipline of IR. Miguel de Larrinaga is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa where he has been teaching since 2002. Marc G. Doucet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University.

Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics

Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics
Author: Ronnie Lipschutz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-03-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135991421

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics details how the widespread failure of states and corporations to regulate the impact of increased globalization has given rise to non-governmental organizations and movements, aiming to influence corporations regarding social responsibilities and address key issues such as human rights, environmental destruction, unhealthy working conditions and child labour. Assessing the effectiveness of these efforts, it examines both the new movements and the issues they are tackling. With three key case studies on the clothing industry, sustainable forestry and corporate social responsibility, it explores the tensions between politics and management, examining the theoretical implications of regulation for politics, citizenship and the state. Finally, it takes a fresh look at what is to be done, calling for a return to politics centred on the direct participation of the individual in the social choices that affect quality of life, working conditions and the global future.

Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics

Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics
Author: Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign trade regulation
ISBN: 9780415701600

Lipschutz evaluates the widespread failure of states and corporations to regulate the worrying impacts of increased globalisation and the influence and role of social activists and movements.

Global Governmentality

Global Governmentality
Author: Wendy Larner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134386095

Global Governmentality extends Foucault's political thought towards international studies, exploring the governance of the global, the international, the regional and many other extra-domestic spaces.

Globalization Under Construction

Globalization Under Construction
Author: Richard Warren Perry
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780816639656

In 'Globalization Under Construction' the authors attempt to discern in the disparateness of contemporary events an emerging pattern of governmentality, techniques of governance & assemblages of intersecting arguments about the history of the present & the nature of the future that our present portends.

Global Civil Society

Global Civil Society
Author: Gideon Baker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134256876

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Global Subjects

Global Subjects
Author: Jean-François Bayart
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745636683

Globalization is part of the fabric of our everyday lives. And yet we often view it as a threat to our identities, or even our very survival. This study offers a radically new vision of this phenomenon, one which goes completely against the way it is interpreted by neo-liberals or the anti-globalization movement.

Re-Globalization

Re-Globalization
Author: Roland Benedikter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2022-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000566501

Re-Globalization examines the changing face of globalization, with political, economic, and social balances in flux, and tensions increasing in many parts of the globe. This book discusses and problematizes the current transition phase of globalization in response to issues such as inequalities, climate change, and health crises, offering a comprehensive collection of responses to the question “what is re- globalization?” The authors discuss the various definitions and forms of re-globalization, using a range of approaches, examples, and case studies in order to shed light on this process. The analysis of the phenomenon of re- globalization – understood as an economic, political, and social process – is both inter- and transdisciplinary. This volume offers contributions from academic disciplines within the social sciences, as well as technology, global security, global studies, health, and climate and environmental sciences. Overall, the book analyzes and illustrates how globalization shifts are interconnected and how they relate to a transition in global society, proposing a framework for a series of future scenarios. This socio- geographically diverse book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines exploring the future of globalization.

The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance

The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance
Author: S. Guzzini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137283556

The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies. Guzzini and Neumann combine these to look at an increasingly global politics with a growing number of agents, recognising the emergence of a global polity.

Globalization Contested

Globalization Contested
Author: Louise Amoore
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780719060960

This exciting book, available in paperback for the first time, provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is expressed in the restructuring of work.Rejecting conventional explanations of globalisation as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, this book advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany, to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalisation is interpreted and experienced in everyday life. Contestation, she argues, is about more than just direct protests and resistances. It has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring.This book offers students and scholars of international political economy, sociology and industrial relations an innovative framework for the analysis of globalisation and the restructuring of work.