Post-pandemic South Asian Governmentalities and Foucault: State Power and Ordinary Citizens

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  • Nasima Islam Acharya Girish Chandra Bose College, University of Calcutta

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https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.i35.7084

Abstract

As the post-COVID world order necessitates a radical overhaul of the ways in which we understand the very notions of “health”, “care” and “security”, one must revisit Michel Foucault and his works in these shifting times to rethink biopolitics as a category viz-a-viz contemporary globalectics. Keeping that in mind, while reviewing two very interesting books by and on Foucault – South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings and Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens – the article attempts to highlight certain core Foucauldian concerns in different domains of human existence that the...

Author Biography

Nasima Islam, Acharya Girish Chandra Bose College, University of Calcutta

Nasima Islam teaches in the Department of English at an undergraduate college under the University of Calcutta, India. Besides, she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), India. She has co-edited a book titled Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism published by Routledge in 2022. Also, her articles and book chapters have been published with Routledge, Bauhaus University Press, Transnational Literature, Café Dissensus, Roundtable India etc. Her broader research interest includes censorship studies, Minority Studies, Dalit Literature, Gender and Women studies, Critical Theory etc. She can be reached at nasimaislamknu@gmail.com.

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2023-12-29

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Islam, N. (2023). Post-pandemic South Asian Governmentalities and Foucault: State Power and Ordinary Citizens. Foucault Studies, (35), 251–267. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.i35.7084

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Number 35, December 2023

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Book Reviews

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