Interventions on the politics of governing the “ungovernable”
Marei, Fouad Gehad LU
; Atia, Mona
; Bhungalia, Lisa
and Dewachi, Omar
(2018)
In Political Geography
67.
p.176-186
- Abstract
This intervention seeks to challenge the notion that ungovernable people and places are aberrations to theorizations of governance. By spatializing and grounding theory through ethnographic, multi-sited and actor-focused inquiry, we investigate the techniques and practices of governing territories and people that are deployed in four sites in the Middle East and North Africa. We highlight the impact of colonial and imperial interventions on regimes of governance and rule and posit that the designation of “ungovernable” is itself an instrument of rule and that the designation enables the exercise of exceptional power. Through the context of terror, urbanity, poverty and war, we analyze the toolkit of innovations and interventions... (More)
This intervention seeks to challenge the notion that ungovernable people and places are aberrations to theorizations of governance. By spatializing and grounding theory through ethnographic, multi-sited and actor-focused inquiry, we investigate the techniques and practices of governing territories and people that are deployed in four sites in the Middle East and North Africa. We highlight the impact of colonial and imperial interventions on regimes of governance and rule and posit that the designation of “ungovernable” is itself an instrument of rule and that the designation enables the exercise of exceptional power. Through the context of terror, urbanity, poverty and war, we analyze the toolkit of innovations and interventions deployed to govern the “ungovernable”. We posit that ungovernability is an integral constitutive element of regimes of governing.
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- author
- Marei, Fouad Gehad
LU
; Atia, Mona
; Bhungalia, Lisa
and Dewachi, Omar
- publishing date
- 2018-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Biopolitics, Governance, Governmentality, Intervention, Middle east, Postcolonial, Poverty, Reconstruction, Terrorism, Urbanity, War
- in
- Political Geography
- volume
- 67
- pages
- 11 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85041701051
- ISSN
- 0962-6298
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.01.003
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: The interventions presented in this paper are inspired by the workshop Governing the Ungovernable? Interrogating Geographies of Transformation and Intervention convened by Fouad Gehad Marei (Freie Universität Berlin) and Mona Atia (George Washington University) in January 2016. The workshop was funded by the Dahrendorf Forum, a joint initiative by the Hertie School of Governance, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Stiftung Mercator. Funding Information: The interventions presented in this paper are inspired by the workshop Governing the Ungovernable? Interrogating Geographies of Transformation and Intervention convened by Fouad Gehad Marei (Freie Universität Berlin) and Mona Atia (George Washington University) in January 2016. The workshop was funded by the Dahrendorf Forum, a joint initiative by the Hertie School of Governance , the London School of Economics and Political Science , and Stiftung Mercator . Funding Information: Fouad Gehad Marei's contribution is based on research partially funded by an Arab Council for Social Sciences research grant. Mona Atia's contribution is based on research funded by the National Science Foundation grant #1352435 . Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
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