Ethnographies of neoliberal governmentalities: From the neoliberal apparatus to neoliberalism and governmental assemblages

Abstract

This article is aimed at Foucauldian scholars and seeks to introduce them to ethnographic works that interrogate neoliberal governmentalities. As an analytic category ?eneoliberalism?f has over the last two decades helpfully illuminated connections between seemingly unrelated social changes occurring at multiple scales. Even earlier .in his College de France 1978?]9 Birth of Biopolitics lectures, to be precise.Foucault began his engagement with neoliberalism as a dominant political force. Despite being more than three decades old, Foucault?fs analysis of neoliberal rationalities remains fresh and insightful, which perhaps explains why scholars inspired by his analytics of governmentality hav..