In April 2008, sociologists and related academics journeyed to Boston from across North America and Europe to attend the fifth annual Social Theory Forum, which was devoted to clarifying the central theoretical legacy of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-84) and applying his ideas to a range of contemporary empirical phenomena. The 24 papers look at neoliberalism and economic conduct; subjection, subjectivation, and the government of the self; biopower and the life of bodies; education and pedagogy; governing national populations; control and the prison industrial complex; religion and political spirituality; genetics, genomics, and racialized life; and consumption as a way of life.
A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium
