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 deployed to govern the “ungovernable”. We posit that ungovernability is an integral constitutive element of regimes of governing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 176-186 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Political Geography |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Marei, Fouad G., et al. 2018. “Interventions on the Politics of Governing the “Ungovernable””, Political Geography, 67, pp. 176 – 186. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.01.003.Keywords
- Governance
- Postcolonial
- Intervention
- Middle East
- War
- Terrorism
- Poverty
- Reconstruction
- Biopolitics
- Governmentality
- Urbanity