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
Downing Place
Cambridge
CB2 3EN
www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/legg/
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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
Downing Place
Cambridge
CB2 3EN
www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/legg/
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