Specific Readings

Question 1

Development’s engagement with power/knowledge

Answer 1

Escobar, 1984

Question 2

Key features of his interpretation of power

Answer 2

Foucault, 1979

Question 3

Security as the apparatus of biopower

Answer 3

Foucault, 2007

Question 4

Critique of Foucault: lack of spatial engagement and fails to elaborate on implications

Answer 4

Thrift, 2007

Question 5

The history of power would be one of space

Answer 5

Foucault, 1980

Question 6

Outline sovereignty and discipline

Answer 6

Foucault, 1977

Question 7

Foucault used to understand the ‘Third World’

Answer 7

DuBois, 1991

Question 8

Biopower legitimising ‘shoot to kill’ policies, context of African conservation

Answer 8

Fletcher, 2018

Question 9

Organising Foucault’s work to be geographical useful and shift from territory to population

Answer 9

Elden, 2007

Question 10

Furthering the spatial understanding by outlining spatial rationalities

Answer 10

Huxley, 2006

Question 11

Moving away from the binary of concentrated and diffuse understandings of power

Answer 11

Allen, 2004

Question 12

Critiquing colonialism through analysing how biopower was exercised by colonial powers, specific context was congestion in Delhi

Answer 12

Legg, 2006

Question 13

First conception of power as relational, too much of a state centric approach.
Also, power as the capacity to act in concert for common interests.

Answer 13

Arendt, 1958