Foucault's population geographies: Classifications, biopolitics and governmental spaces
Foucault's population geographies: Classifications, biopolitics and governmental spaces
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DOI：
10.1002/psp.357
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
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2.4
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Legg, S
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作者：
Legg, S
虽然米歇尔·福柯的著作已经被用于地理学的不同分支，但他后来关于治理，特别是生物政治学的著作还没有在人口地理学中得到应有的考虑。本文试图将人们的注意力从福柯关于人口的著作，从他最初的医疗工作转移到他后来关于国家人口调控的政府演讲上。从他的各种著作中，生物政治学的不同尺度(主观的、领土的、地缘政治的、国家的、国际的)和与它们相适应的不同的分析层次(认识论、身份、能见度、技术和精神)被认为对人口地理学家有用。由于印度的多样性和可以观察到的政治关系的前景化，对殖民时期印度的研究提供了实际例子。回顾了关于如何(重新)将人口地理学理论化的争论，认为福柯的著作可以帮助人口地理学家以批判性的和政治上积极的方式考虑他们研究的对象、方法和成果。版权所有(C)2005 John Wiley&Sons，Ltd.
While Michel Foucault's writings have been used in different branches of geography, his later writings on governmentality and especially biopolitics have not yet received due consideration within population geography. This paper attempts to divert attention to Foucault's writings on population, from his initial medical work to his later governmentality lectures on the regulation of national populations. From his various writings the different scales of biopolitics (subjective, territorial, geopolitical, state, international) and the different analytical levels (episteme, identity, visibility, techne, and ethos) appropriate to them are suggested as being of use to population geographers. Practical examples are given from research on colonial India due to its diversity and the foregrounding of political relations that can be observed there. A review of the debate on how to (re)theorise population geography is used to suggest that Foucault's writings can help population geographers to consider the objects, methods and outputs of their research in a critical and politically active way. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.