(Ebook) Foucault and Post-Financial Crises: Governmentality, Discipline and Resistance by John G. Glenn ISBN 9783319771878, 9783319771885, 3319771876, 3319771884

(Ebook) Foucault and Post-Financial Crises: Governmentality, Discipline and Resistance by John G. Glenn ISBN 9783319771878, 9783319771885, 3319771876, 3319771884

This title explains the causes of the financial crisis and the economic reforms that were created subsequently through a Foucauldian philosophical lens. The author sets out the approaches established by Foucault – namely governmentality, biopolitics and disciplinary mechanisms – explaining how these influenced the shift of production from a local to a global level, alongside a shift towards financialisation. Glenn applies Foucauldian principles to aid understanding of the self-corrective mechanisms applied to the financial system, and the interpellative processes that led to the emergence of a new mode of subjectification. Concurrently, this title examines the retreat of the state from the financial sphere. This shift, the author posits, did not mean the complete absence of governance; rather governance became more concerned with ensuring that financial behaviour was contained within certain limits.