Maria, Ned, and others,
Studies on governmentality have focused upon the stabilizing effect of
expanding market relations between individuals, as counterintuitive as that
may sound, ungovernmentality is apparently not due to global capitalist
expansion, but to its reverse, up to the point of the questioning of regimes
on the basis of legitimacy.
See Claus Offe for more references on this perspective.
Fred Welfare
In a message dated 6/5/00 9:35:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Ned.Rossiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< While not working through F's governmentality argument, Pheng Cheah's
"Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global Conjuncture",
Public Culture 9.2 (1997): 233-266 may nonetheless be useful for you
in that he critiques various modes of normativity (legal, moral,
ethical) operating across the universality of human rights by
considering the way material and subjective conditions arising from
forces of global capital "contaminate" such a rational system.