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Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia

Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia

Voyce, Malcolm

Hardcover

Australia & Oceania19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1498559697
ISBN13: 9781498559690
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: May 14 2019
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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