Artículos de revistas
Neoliberalism, biopolitics, and the governance of transnational crime
Fecha
2012-07Registro en:
Colombia Internacional - No. 76 (Jul.-Dic. 2012) p. 137-165
10.7440/colombiaint76.2012.06
Institución
Resumen
The paper argues that policies for controlling transnational crime are a crucial dimension for understanding neoliberal hegemony in global governance. It takes on the relation established by Foucault between biopolitics and neoliberalism, in order to reconstruct the discursive formation framing law enforcement and security strategies beyond the spatiality of the nation-state. The paper then turns to outlining the practical expressions of this discourse in the governance techniques deployed to control transnational crime. Overall, this study aims to show how neoliberal criticism of state power is not coupled with a reduction in governance but, on the contrary, implies many regulations and strategies for controlling the population