CiNii Books - Space, knowledge and power : Foucault and geography

Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal Herodote in the mid 1970s. The opening third of the book comprises some of Foucault's previously untranslated work on questions of space, a range of responses from French and English language commentators, and a newly translated essay by Claude Raffestin, a leading Swiss geographer. The rest of the book presents specially commissioned essays which examine the remarkable reception of Foucault's work in English and French language geography; situate Foucault's project historically; and provide a series of developments of his work in the contemporary contexts of power, biopolitics, governmentality and war. Contributors include a number of key figures in social/spatial theory such as David Harvey, Chris Philo, Sara Mills, Nigel Thrift, John Agnew, Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah. Written in an open and engaging tone, the contributors discuss just what they find valuable - and frustrating - about Foucault's geographies. This is a book which will both surprise and challenge.

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Contents: Introduction: Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography, Stuart Elden and Jeremy W. Crampton. Part 1 Questions: Some questions from Michel Foucault to Herodote, Michel Foucault (translated by Stuart Elden). Part 2 Francophone Responses - 1977: Herodote 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.

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