ABSTRACT
The chapter surveys key themes in post-structural approaches to global governance to identify a rich and proliferating set of research agendas. Discussion is structured around three key concepts: deconstruction, governmentality, and performativity. In different ways, these concepts can be mobilized to question the status of ethics, politics, the state, and the market. More critically, the productive power of new and overlapping discourses of global governance like “cosmopolitanism,” “fair trade,” and “resilience” is understood as a set of legitimating supplements for emergent forms of neoliberal government. While sympathetic to post-structural critiques, the chapter concludes by emphasizing the importance of a creative politics of imagination and resistance.
