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governmentality and regime  

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  • Governmentality is a term, most often derived from Michel Foucault's lectures, that focuses on the field of practices, techniques, and forms of knowledge through which we govern in modern societies. It concerns, but is not restricted to, the political government of the state. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Governmentality and Regime]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RSKJKKWN-2

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