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Studying the Agency of Being Governed book cover

1st Edition

Studying the Agency of Being Governed

Edited By Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg, Maria Stern Copyright 2015
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach questions of governing and agency—particularly those who endeavour to embark on grounded empirical research— by rendering explicit some key challenges, tensions, dilemmas, and confluences that such endeavours elicit. Indeed, the contributions in this volume reflect the growing tendency in governmentality studies to shift focus to... Read more

PART I, 1. Introduction, Maria Stern, Sofie Hellberg and Stina Hansson 2. Power, freedom and the agency of being governed, Stina Hansson and Sofie Hellberg 3. The artist of not being governed: The emergence of the political subject, Sergei Prozorov PART II 4. Studying provocations: the researcher’s care for what exists, Vikki Bell 5. Avoiding the ‘killing’ of lives: representations in academia and fiction, Christine Sylvester, 6. Institutional validation and the agency of the researcher, Gayatri Spivak 7. How to study power and collective agency: social movements and the politics of international aid, Håkan Thörn PART III, 8. Studying reform of/in/by the National Armed Forces in the DRC, Maria Stern and Maria Eriksson Baaz 8. Analysing responsibilisation in the context of development cooperation, Stina Hansson 9. From ‘Squaddie’ to ‘Bodyguard’: Towards a Remilitarised Agency?, Paul Higate 10. Studying the governing of lives through bio-narratives, Sofie Hellberg 11. Conclusion, Stina Hansson and Sofie Hellberg

Biography

Stina Hansson is a University Lecturer in Peace and Development Research in the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Sofie Hellberg is a University Lecturer and a PhD candidate in Peace and Development Research in the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Maria Stern is Professor of Peace and Development Research in the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden

 

"This is a welcome contribution shedding much light on how issues such as agency and resistance can be dealt with in governmentality studies – a field in which it is fair to say that such issues, even if not wholly neglected, have long been viewed primarily as objects to be regulated or governed. (...) All in all, this is a stimulating book both theoretically and methodologically and should be of interest to all who are interested either in governmentality studies or larger issues of agency and resistance."

- Carl Cassega°rd, University of Gothenburg

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