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Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to govern the internal relationships of families to assist the state to ‘rule from a distance’. Using a selection of Foucault’s ideas on the “family”, sexuality, race, space and economics this books shows how “property” operated as a disciplinary device, which was underpinned by “technical ideas”, such as surveying and cartography. This book uses legal judgments as a form of ethnography to show how property, as a socio-technical device, allowed a degree of local freedom for owners. This aspect of property allowed the state to stimulate ideas of local freedom to assist in “ruling from a distance,” demonstrating how the rural family as a domestic unit became a key field of intervention for the state as the family represented a bridge to larger relationships of power.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: The Dispossession of Aboriginals from Land: An Application of Foucault’s Theories on Race and Sexuality
Chapter 3: Property and the Governance of the Family Farm
Chapter 4: A Reading of Divorce Judgments and Reflections on “Spatiality” and “Sexuality”
Chapter 5: Governing at a Distance: The Role of Trusts in Structuring Family Life in Rural Australia
Chapter 6: Towards a ‘Family Provision Jurisprudence’: A Case Study on the Farming Inheritance Cases
Chapter 7:Towards a ‘Family Provision Jurisprudence’: A Case Study on the Farming Inheritance Cases
Chapter 8: Governing the Rural Family in Australia from a Distance: The Family Provision Act and the Role of ‘Expert Knowledges’
Product details
| Published | 14 May 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 220 |
| ISBN | 9798216206866 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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