Governmentality and the maternal body: infant mortality in early twentieth-century Lancashire

Moore, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2012.09.003

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“…3 Although see Mitchell (2017) for a recent genealogy of the relationship between humanitarian forms of aid and US racialised formations. 4 For other historical geographic examples of biopolitical interventions, see Legg (2005Legg ( , 2014 and Moore (2013). 5 Hampton Institute (now University) was founded in 1863 as an institution to provide higher education for African-Americans.…”

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Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa

Domosh

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper I document links between the racialised biopolitics that characterised the US government interventions in the US South in the early 20th century, and the USA's and the UK's late colonial and early development strategies in Africa. I do so by interrogating why Thomas Campbell, the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) head of African‐American agricultural extension, was chosen by US philanthropic elites and approved by the UK's Colonial Office to co‐direct a 1944–1945 survey of educational facilities in Africa. I show that it was Campbell's experiences and expertise with “improving” rural life through strategies of self‐help and character‐ and community‐building – key markers of a liberal way of development – that made his presence on the survey seem essential to both the USA and UK elites. By so doing, this paper documents the importance of the USDA's biopolitical interventions in the US South for understanding the historical geography of late colonialism and liberal forms of development, thus contributing to critical geographies of development.

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Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa

Domosh

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Reading against the grain, that is, being actively attuned to the power politics of the archive, allowed Howell to piece together the sexual double standard experienced by women in the Victorian era. In my own work on maternal governmentality (Moore, ), I also used Duncan's technique of reading against the grain. I looked for ‘countervailing forces’ that are really indications of autonomy and even resistance, as a way to discover more about the women who were the targets of some of the first public health interventions in the UK.…”

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Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

Moore

2018

Geography Compass

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It is thirty years since the first call to engage with gender as an analytical category was made in the sub‐discipline of Historical Geography. Significant advances in scholarship have been made in this time, particularly the re‐situation of women in the history of Geography as a subject. This paper looks to the next thirty years in Historical Geography and asks how the sub‐discipline can retain and develop its critical political edge. In the 2017 Women's Marches protestors dressed as suffragettes from the early twentieth century and proclaimed that little had changed in the fight for women's rights. Taking this ‘Victorian present’ as a starting point, this paper explores ways to connect Historical Geography to the gender politics of the present. The paper argues that the sub‐discipline has the methodological tools to use the past as a form of female power to engage with the inequalities that women still face. A sketch of a feminist historical geography of the present is provided using emancipatory and participatory research tools.

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“…Significantly for this article, heteronormativity mobilises distinctions between the good/perverse homosexuals (Weber 2015) but also produces other nonnormative, 'deviant' heterosexuals -single mothers, mixed-race couples, migrant families, workless households (Wilkinson 2014) -whose moral and social 'worth' is also brought into question. Given Foucault's own comments on the centrality of the household (oikos) and family to the historical emergence of biopolitics (Foucault 1998;, it is perhaps unsurprising that studies of governmentality have equally focused on how domesticity has played a central role in liberal rule (Rose 1990;Donzelot 1989;Moore 2013), security (Walters 2004;Darling 2010) and even warfare (Owens 2015;Mitropoulos 2009). Whilst governmental approaches inform/are informed by critical geographies of heteronormativity (Oswin and Olund 2010;Legg 2014;Martin 2012), the emphasis is often on how the household becomes imbricated in the government of modern nation states.…”

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Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

Turner

2017

Environ Plan D

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This article examines how the UK's Troubled Families Programme (TFP) works as a strategy of domestication which produces and delimits certain forms of 'family life'. Drawing upon critical geographies of home and empire, the article explores how the TFP works to manage the troubled family as part of a longer history of regulating unruly households in the name of national health and civilisation. Viewing the TFP as part of the production of heteronormative order, highlights how the policy remobilises and reconfigures older forms of colonial rule which work to demarcate between civility/savagery, the developable/undevelopable. In examining the postcolonial dimension of neoliberal social policy, the article stresses how the TFP relies on racializing and sexualised logics of socio-biological control borrowed from imperial eugenics. Reading the TFP in this way contributes to our understanding of neoliberal rule. That the troubled family can be either domesticated or destroyed (through benefit sanctions and eviction) equally reveals the extent to which domesticity works as a key site for the production of both 'worthy' and 'surplus' life.

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Governmentality and the maternal body: infant mortality in early twentieth-century Lancashire

Cited by 19 publications

References 34 publications

Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa

Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa

Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

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