Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

1. Introduction. Governmentality. Assumptions and Methods. Chapters 2. Liberal Governmentalities. Liberal Governmentalities. The Liberal State: A Genealogy of Early Modernism. Pastoral Power, Biopower and the Liberal Welfare State. Neoliberal Enterprise and Neoconservative Governmentalities. Neoliberal Governmental: Enterprise and Risk. Neoconservative and Christian Pastoral Government. Diffusions 3. Governing the Self-Regulating Market. Markets, Mercantilism and Laissez-Faire Government. Markets, Mercantilism, and Circulation. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Joint-Stock Companies, Trading, and Law. Laissez-Faire Government: A Philosophy of Wealth and Poverty. Nineteenth Century Markets: Corporatization and Colonialism. A Genealogy of the American Corporation. Governing “Protected” Markets. Gold Standard Market Government. Nineteenth Century Problematics of Government. Governing Economic Risk: From Laissez-Faire to the Welfare State. The End of Laissez-Faire and the Welfare State. Finance, Fordism and the Welfare State. Neoliberalism: Enterprise and Risk. U.S. Neoliberalism. Globalizing Neoliberalism. Neoliberal Authorities, Risks, and Global Flows. Neoliberal Policy, Corporate Government, and the Population. Neoliberal Market Government and Biopolitical Crises4. Governing Population: Biopower, Risk, and the Politics of Health. The Birth of Biopolitics and Foucault’s Genealogy of Social Medicine. The Diseased Body: Transformations in Understanding. Social Medicine: From Sanitary Science to the Science of the Germ. The Surveillance Model of Medicine: From the Germ to Eugenics. Twentieth Century Social-Surveillance Medicine. From Social-Welfare Governmentality to Neoliberal Technologies of Health Government. Conservative Government of Health Risk. Twentieth Century Genetics and Genomics. Genes, Genetic Analysis and Genomic Analysis. Genetic Engineering. Genetic Biopolitics. Contesting Health: Biopolitics and Marketization 5. Governing Population: Mind and Brain as Governmental Spaces. Madness, Criminology and Eugenics: Nineteenth Century Dividing Practices. Madness: From Moral Pathology to Biological Psychiatry. The Biologization of Criminal Degeneracy and the Development of Eugenics. Twentieth Century Biopower: From Normalization to Optimization. Mental Hygiene, Normalization, and Development of Technologies of the Self. From Normalization to Optimization: Mental Health and Human Development in the Welfare State. Governing the Brain: Behavioral Genetics, Psychopharmacology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Behavioral Genetics. Psychopharmacology. Neurological Visibility. Governing Difference: Self-Government, Disciplinarity, and the Society of Control 6. Biopower, Sovereignty, and America's Global Security. Foucault, Agamben, and Sovereignty. The United States of America: Biopower, Race and Sovereignty. Surveillance, Threat Governmentality, and Precautionary Risk. Sovereign Exceptionality. Sovereignty and Liberal Governmentality 7. Bad Subjects and Liberal Governmentalities. Notes. References. Index.