Governing global subjects? Border-crossers and the limits of (global) governmentality

Puggioni, Raffaela (2021) Governing global subjects? Border-crossers and the limits of (global) governmentality. Global Society, 35 (3). pp. 289-306. ISSN 1469798X

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Abstract

This article argues that ‘border-crossers' — those still in the process of crossing borders — might not be governable. It suggests to move away from the Foucauldian perspective and investigate border-crossers not through the prism of power relations but through their capacity to dream another future. It argues that we should integrate “how questions” — “how to govern oneself, how to be governed, how to govern others” — with ‘who questions' – that is ‘who is the subject to be governed?' In other words, technologies of control should be discussed together with analyses that investigate the subjects upon whom those technologies operate. Which practices, power relations and institutional settings ‘make up' border-crossers? What if border-crossers are more than the result of power relations? What if what drives mobility is not power relations but by the dream of another future? What if border-crossers are not the liberal subjects of governmentality but the ‘dreaming subjects of mobility’?

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Dreaming subject | Foucault | Governmentality | Liberal subject | migrants | Sartre
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Human Factors and Ergonomics
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Human Rights
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > International Relations
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of International Affairs
Depositing User: Mr. Syed Anas
Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2021 09:00
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2022 16:33
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2020.1810641
Additional Information: A different version of this paper was originally presented at EISA 2017 in Barcelona and a revised version discussed at the (University of) Sussex Rights & Justice Centre and at the University of Durham in occasion of the workshop on “Governing (Im-)Mobilities: International Borders, Borderlands and Border Cities”. Special thanks go to Louiza Odysseos, David Karp, Zdenek Kavan, and Stef Jensen, who have all made me question ‘how Foucauldian I was’ and to the two anonymous reviewers for their challenging comments, especially for making me refine the concept of “border-crossers”. A special thanks go as well to the editorial team at Global Society.
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/280

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