Globalization and Postcolonial States

Post-Foucauldian governmentality: What does it offer critical social policy analysis?

“…In a similar fashion, Gupta and Sharma (2006) Finally, this revised approach accords an important role to state institutions.…”

“Can We Just Get Rid of the Classroom?” Thinking Space, Relationally

“…2 Recent scholars address global/local spaces that through theoretical concepts such as "difference" (Marston, Woodward, & Jones, 2007, drawing on Derrida), "disjuncture, fragments, and flows" (Appadurai, 1996;Carney, 2009;Carney, Bista, & Agergaard, 2007), "multiplicity" and "becoming" (Deleuze, 1988(Deleuze, , 1994Deleuze & Guattari, 1994;Staheli, 2003;Stivale, 2008; "governmentality" (Gupta & Sharma, 2006;Ferguson & Gupta, 2002;Larner & Waters, 2004); cosmopolitanism (Appiah, 2006;Popkewitz, 2008); multiple identities/traveling identities (Clifford, 1997). Of importance, and missing from these theorizations is the attention paid to the relationship-the multiple forces-between identity, space, and power; these are the markers of critical geography theorizing, but nonetheless have been absent from theorizing of globalization and educational policy and research thus far.…”

Bitcoin and the Blockchain: A Coup D''tat in Digital Heterotopia?

“…The state embodies the notion of sovereignty, which binds the state's territory within an administrative structure that has power and authority (Gupta et al 2006). Among the several pillars that underpin states, we identify five that are relevant to our purposes, insofar as they are affected by digital currencies: i) monopoly on violence, ii) non-interference, iii) fiat money, iv) bureaucracy, v) statistics.…”