Bulletin n. 3/2010
January 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Reichhold Clemens
    Der Imperialismus als Regierung der Masse. Zur Geschichte der Gouvernementalität bei Foucault
    in Geschichte und Gesellschaft , Heft 2010/36,3 ,  2010 ,  437–461
    The full text is free: www.v-r.de/de/Reichhold-Diskussionsforum-Der-Imperialismus-als-Regierung-der-Masse/t/2000003873/ Abstract: The article presents an explorative account of Foucault’s history of governmentality in the age of imperialism. Primarily it discusses Foucault’s lectures on classical 18th- and newer 20th-century forms of liberalism. Thereby the historic transformation of a self-regulating population into new forms of interventionist government is outlined. Beyond Foucault this transformation is traced back to the need for regulation of socially disintegrated masses in the writings of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, founder of the German Volkskunde (folklife studies). What Foucault holds to be the liberal paradigm of free circulation of interests is transformed during the imperialistic epoch by Riehl’s concept of state-conducted integration through corporate and national customs.
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