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Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods
Edited by Paul McIlvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 66] 2016
► pp. 1–70

New perspectives on discourse and governmentality

In this comprehensive overview we familiarise readers with Michel Foucault’s publications that are relevant both to discourse studies and to studies of governmentality. We review the narrow impact that Foucault’s ideas have had on discourse studies and summarise the scant literature on discourse and governmentality across different disciplines. We elucidate the new scholarly understandings of Foucault’s later work, as well as engage with the debates about governmentality that have been generated after Foucault. In particular, we give a thorough assessment of the reverberations of Foucault’s later work on governmentality to clarify its contemporary relevance for discourse studies. Lastly, we introduce and contextualise the theoretical, methodological and analytical innovations in discourse studies to be found in the chapters in this volume, before concluding on the contributions that the book makes to both discourse studies and studies of governmentality.
Published online: 29 June 2016
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