Foucault and Family Relations

Governing from a Distance in Australia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to govern the internal relationships of families to assist the state to ‘rule from a distance’. Using a selection of Foucault’s ideas on the “family”, sexuality, race, space and economics this books shows how “property” operated as a disciplinary device, which was underpinned by “technical ideas”, such as surveying and cartography. This book uses legal judgments as a form of ethnography to show how property, as a socio-technical device, allowed a degree of local freedom for owners. This aspect of property allowed the state to stimulate ideas of local freedom to assist in “ruling from a distance,” demonstrating how the rural family as a domestic unit became a key field of intervention for the state as the family represented a bridge to larger relationships of power.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-14
Mått:159 x 232 x 23 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498559690

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Malcolm Voyce is professor of law at Macquarie University.

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“Foucault and Family Relations is a highly illuminating study of the importance of the family as a device for the historical advance of liberal colonialism in Australia, as well as for the critique of liberalism globally. Voyce shows us the darkness of connections between family, sexuality and race, and reveals the family for the colonial, patriarchal and heteronormative stooge which it so often was and still is.”

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: The Social Context of FarmingChapter 2: The Dispossession of Aboriginals from Land: An Application of Foucault’s Theories on Race and SexualityChapter 3: Property and the Governance of the Family FarmChapter 4: A Reading of Divorce Judgments and Reflections on “Spatiality” and “Sexuality”Chapter 5: Governing at a Distance: The Role of Trusts in Structuring Family Life in Rural AustraliaChapter 6: Towards a ‘Family Provision Jurisprudence’: A Case Study on the Farming Inheritance Cases Chapter 7:Towards a ‘Family Provision Jurisprudence’: A Case Study on the Farming Inheritance Cases Chapter 8: Governing the Rural Family in Australia from a Distance: The Family Provision Act and the Role of ‘Expert Knowledges’