Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography

by Stuart Elden, Jeremy W Crampton

Overview

The first to engage Foucault’s geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, this book is framed around his discussions with the journal Hérodote in the mid 1970s. The contributors (including a number of key figures such as David Harvey, Chris Philo, Sara Mills, Nigel Thrift, John Agnew, Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah) discuss just what they find valuable – and frustrating – about Foucault’s geographies. This is a book which will both surprise and challenge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409487296
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
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About the Author

Dr Jeremy W. Crampton is from the Department of Geosciences at Georgia State University, USA. Dr Stuart Elden is from the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography, Stuart Elden and Jeremy W. Crampton. Part 1 Questions: Some questions from Michel Foucault to Hérodote, Michel Foucault (translated by Stuart Elden). Part 2 Francophone Responses – 1977: Hérodote editorial, translated by Gerald Moore; Response: Jean-Michel Brabant (translated by Gerald Moore); Response: Alain Joxe (translated by Gerald Moore); Response:Jean-Bernard Racine and Claude Raffestin (translated by Gerald Moore); Response: Michel Riou (translated by Gerald Moore). Part 3 Anglophone Responses – 2006: The Kantian roots of Foucault's dilemmas, David Harvey; Geography, gender and power, Sara Mills; Overcome by space: reworking Foucault, Nigel Thrift; Foucault among the geographers, Thomas Flynn. Part 4 Contexts: Strategy, medicine and habitat: Foucault in 1976, Stuart Elden; Formations of 'Foucault' in Anglo-American geography: an archaeological sketch, Matthew Hannah; Catalysts and converts: sparking interest for Foucault among Francophone geographers, Juliet J. Fall; Could Foucault have revolutionized geography?, Claude Raffestin (translated by Gerald Moore). Part 5 Texts: The incorporation of the hospital into modern technology, Michel Foucault (translated by Edgar Knowlton Jr., William J. King, and Stuart Elden); The meshes of power, Michel Foucault (translated by Gerald Moore); The language of space, Michel Foucault (translated by Gerald Moore); The force of flight, Michel Foucault (translated by Gerald Moore); Questions on geography, Michel Foucault (translated by Colin Gordon). Part 6 Development: Geographies of governmentality, Margo Huxley; The history of medical geography after Foucault, Gerry Kearns; Maps, race and Foucault: eugenics and territorialization following World War I, Jeremy W. Crampton; Beyond the Panopticon? Foucault and surveillance studies, David Murakami Wood; Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism, Stephen Legg; Foucault, sexuality, geography, Philip Howell; The problem with Empire, Mathew Coleman and John A. Agnew; 'Bellicose history' and 'local discursivities': an archaeological reading of Michel Foucault's Society Must be Defended, Chris Philo. Index.

Editorial Reviews

'Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography elaborates Foucault's thinking about geography and space in fascinating ways. Foucault scholars will be delighted and perhaps amazed to see this side of Foucault, and the book will immediately become an essential text for all geographers and everyone interested in Foucault's understanding of space and its broader influence in the social sciences and social and cultural theory.' John Pickles, University of North Carolina, USA 'For anyone interested in Foucault, geography and space, this is the essential reference work. This outstanding and comprehensive collection brings together for the first time, not only original texts by Foucault, but also the work of French and Anglophone commentators and authorities in the area. An invaluable and beautifully organized resource, highly recommended for both students and scholars alike.' Clare O'Farrell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia ’The work of French philosopher Foucault is here excavated, translated, interpreted, assessed, and applied...This is a thoughtful and imaginative undertaking, replete with utile index ....Recommended.’ Choice '...it avoids the trap of "hyper-reflexivity" which would harm the quality of the work...the most enriching aspect of this volume is clearly that it identifies that Foucault's reflections represent a veritable goldmine for geographers and anyone interested in questions of space.' a contrario '...those who are even remotely interested in Foucault will find this book to be most helpful in their scholarly pursuits.' Foucault Studies 'A must buy for geography students and professionals that bears witness, with one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century, to the inherent (and inherently complex) spatiality of history and social life.' Cultural Geographies 'This is a thoughtful and imaginative undertaking, replete with utile index...Recommended.' G. J. Martin, emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University 'â

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