In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political
and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as …

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by
electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear …

The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the" rule of
freedom". As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns …

'Water is a brutal delineator of social power which has at various times worked to either
foster greater urban cohesion or generate new forms of political conflict'. In the paper which …

In this article, I draw on ethnographic research in Cairo to analyze outcomes of Egyptian
women's practices of sociality. In Cairo,“phatic labor” creates a social infrastructure of …

She referred to the high-rise as if it were some kind of huge animate presence, brooding
over them and keeping a magisterial eye on the events taking place. There was something …

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate
change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible …

Given geography's neglect of illuminated and dark space, this paper explores the various
qualities of darkness that have contributed to the experience of the city. In recent history …

Things are back. After the turn to discourse and signs in the late twentieth century, there is a
new fascination with the material stuff of life. Things have recaptured our imagination, from …

The first English version of Foucault's (1979a) lecture 'On governmentality'appeared in the
journal Ideology and Consciousness in 1979. Over the course of the next decade, the …