Edited by Terri-Anne Teo - Postcolonial Governmentalities (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)

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Names: Teo, Terri-Anne, editor. | Wynne-Hughes, Elisa, 1982- editor.

Title: Postcolonial governmentalities : rationalities, violences and contestations / Edited by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes.

Description: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2020] | Series: Kilombo: international relations and colonial questions | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "This collection provides an analytical approach that combines postcolonial thought and governmentality to understand power, identity, inequality and insecurity"-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019052761 (print) | LCCN 2019052762 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786606822 (cloth) | ISBN 9781786606839 (paperback) | ISBN 9781786606846 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Postcolonialism. | World politics. | Political science.

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Postcolonial Governmentalities developed from papers and discussions that took place at three workshops: the Postcolonial Governmentality Workshop in September 2014 (organised by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, hosted by Bristol University and funded by Cardiff Universitys Department of Politics and IR, as well as the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Bristols Alumni Foundation and the Gender Research Centre and Global Insecurities Centre); the Spatial Practices of Postcolonial Governance: Inequalities, Exclusions and Potentials Workshop in September 2015 (organised by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, hosted by Cardiff University and funded by Cardiff School of Law and Politics, as well as the Poststructural Politics, Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial and Africa Working groups of the British International Studies Association [BISA]); and the Freedom and Constraint: Colonial Subjectivities, Postcolonial Governmentalities Workshop in June 2017 (organised by Simon Philpott and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, and hosted by the European Workshops in International Studies at Cardiff University, partly funded by the Poststructural Politics Working Group of BISA). We would like to thank the series editors, workshop participants and each of the contributing authors for their commitment to this project. In getting this book to publication, we would like to thank Rebecca Anastasi and Dhara Snowden. We would also like to thank our partners, Matt ODonnell and Ric Auty, for their patience during the completion of this volume, and to Annika, Miso and Babka for providing many moments of joy throughout this process.

Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes

Postcolonial Governmentalities

There has been an intimate connection between postcolonialism and Foucauldian scholarship from the outset, insofar as leading postcolonial theorists have drawn on, extended and critiqued his work. These studies demonstrate the relevance of both postcolonialism and governmentality to a diversity of fields, and in both the West and non-West. This volume draws out how the relationship between these approaches is relevant to critical International Relations (IR).

Based on the contributions of studies and historical entanglement between these two approaches, this volume introduces what we call a postcolonial governmentalities approach, which draws together elements of postcolonialism on the one hand and Foucauldian governmentality on the other. This approach recognises the strengths of governmentalitys analytical tools, while accounting for the historical and contemporary colonial practices that shape various forms of governance. Existing postcolonial scholarship largely critiques the gaps in Foucauldian governmentality approaches. For instance, Stephen Legg argues that whilst Michel Foucault has provided many of the tools that are necessary to unpick the power-knowledge relationships of post-Enlightenment Europe, especially in their spatial groundedness, his silence on the colonial construction of European modernity and the mutual constitution of metropole and periphery is astounding. Nonetheless, in critiquing governmentality, these scholars do not entirely reject, and indeed rely on, many of its analytical tools. As such, their critiques demonstrate how it is necessary to take a recalibrated approach to understand how postcolonial spaces and discourses affect the emergence and contestations of governmentalities in the non-West, which are not merely copies of the West but take shape in contextually specific ways. While critiquing the Eurocentrism of governmentality, postcolonialism draws on it to uncover alternative technologies, agents and manifestations of governance. Postcolonialism allows us to unpack how governmentalities function in both the West and non-West, recognising how colonial discourses shape both contexts while also shedding light on particular histories of colonialism that contour how political rationalities, violences and contestations manifest in the non-West.