Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography

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Jeremy W. Crampton, Stuart Elden
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - Science - 377 pages
In its sustained and in-depth encounter between Foucault and questions of space, place and geography, this book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of Foucault's engagement with geographical concerns and geography's engagement with Foucault and to open up a new range of themes and questions for the continuation of that engagement.
 

Contents

Foucault and Geography
1
Some Questions from Michel Foucault to Hérodote
19
Michel Riou
35
Geography Gender and Power
49
Reworking Foucault
53
Foucault in 1976
67
Sparking Interest for Foucault
107
Could Foucault have Revolutionized Geography?
129
Geographies of Governmentality
185
The History of Medical Geography after Foucault
205
Eugenics and Territorialization
223
Beyond the Panopticon? Foucault and Surveillance Studies
245
Foucault and Postcolonialism
265
Foucault Sexuality Geography
291
The Problem with Empire
317
Index
369

The Meshes of Power
153
The Force of Flight
169

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