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Foucault and Family Relations - Governing from a Distance in Australia (Hardcover)
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Foucault and Family Relations - Governing from a Distance in Australia (Hardcover)
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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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