Rethinking Law Society and Governance

This set of essays engages with some aspects of Foucault's notion of governmentality,particularly at the junction where law/regulation meets 'the social'. 'The social', as a special sphere of government, is a special area of concern for those working within broad intellectual spaces of the 'governmentality approach'. Is it the basis of modern liberal systems of government? Is it dead, or even feeling unwell? Has it spawned hybrid forms of government like neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, or even neo-socialism? In making their presence felt in the debates that have flourished around such questions, especially by highlighting the subtleties of the roles played by law and regulation in the governance of the social, the authors of the essays - David Brown; Jo Goodie; Russell Hogg and Kerry Carrington; Jeff Malpas; Pat O'Malley; George Pavlich; Annette Pedersen; Kevin Stenson; William Walters -- range widely. There are pieces on liberal government and resistance to it, some on particular targets of this government, like unemployment, crime, 'law and order', even Australian geography, environment and cultural products, and some that delve into philosophical/methodological issues.

ISBN 1841132942   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781841132945 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 290 Publisher Hart Publishing   Published in Oxford Imprint Hart Publishing   Series editor Felstiner, William L.F., Felstiner, William L.F., Felstiner, William L.F. Format Paperback   Series title Onati International Series in Law and Society Publication date 01 Nov 2001   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2002279288   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 340.1   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 192

		List of Contributors
		Transforming Images: Society, Law and Critique by George Pavlich		1
Pt. I		Genealogical Entries: Governance, the Social and the Colonies
1		Genealogy, Systemisation and Resistance in "Advanced Liberalism" by Pat O'Malley		13
2		Governing Images of the Australian Police Trooper by Annette Pedersen		27
3		Governing Rural Australia: Land, Space and Race by Russell Hogg and Kerry Carrington		43
4		Governing Unemployment: Transforming "the Social" by William Walters		61
Pt. II		Law, Crime and the Politics of Co-Social Governance
5		The Invention of the Environment as a Subject of Legal Governance by Jo Goodie		79
6		Reconstructing the Government of Crime by Kevin Stenson		93
7		Governmentality and Law and Order by David Brown		109
Pt. III		Reframing Ontology and Critique
8		Governing Theory: Ontology, Methodology and the Critique of Metaphysics by Jeff Malpas		125
9		The Art of Critique or How Not to be Governed Thus by George Pavlich		141
		Bibliography		155
		Index		171

!the advantage is that the broad base of the authors' approaches results in something thought provoking for a variety of readers. Few post-graduate level readers interested in law and order would not find engaging moments and compelling discussion in this text. It is interesting to read the sometimes sharply contrasting arguments next to one another. Trish Oberweis, Southern Illinois University The Law and Politics Book Review February 2002

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