: Mark Brown
: Penal Power and Colonial Rule
: Taylor and Francis
: 9781134056033
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: CHF 42.00
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
Penal Power and the Colonial Rule argues that Foucault's alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power will need to be re-read and re-balanced to account for its operation in the colonial sphere. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power - discipline - this text opens up an unduly neglected area of research.