ABSTRACT
As Jacques Donzelot, a one-time collaborator of Foucault, notes, the Foucault effect has been particularly strong in the Anglo-phone world. Indeed the impact of his work on governmentality in this specifi c context might more properly be termed the “Anglo-Foucauldian effect” in order to distinguish it from the many other ways in which the work of Foucault and his French associates has affected philosophy, history, geography, and other branches of the arts, humanities, and social sciences at many times and places. As such, this effect refers to a particular mode of reception and appropriation of Foucault’s work on governmentality to generate a distinctive theoretical, epistemological, and methodological approach2 to empirical studies, both historical and contemporary, of various technologies and practices oriented to “the conduct of conduct.” Even in regard to this one aspect of his work, however, there are other “Foucault effects” grounded in
different readings and appropriations of the French scholar’s work on governmentality in various countries (for work within this broader fi eld, see, for example Agrawal 2006; Bröckling, Krasmann and Lemke 2000; Dean 1999; Krasmann and Volkmer 2007; Meyet, Naves and Ribmont 2006; Opitz 2004; Sanyal 2007; Walters and Larner 2004; and the many contributions to Foucault Studies).
