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Governing Society

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This paper addresses the notion of ‘governing society’. It does this first through revisiting the founding Hobbesian symbol of the state as Leviathan and its status in contemporary social science discourses proclaiming the end of the nation-state and of the social project it contained. It then proceeds to outline the genealogical sites of emergence of governing society and the social project from, in turn, an internal or domestic perspective afforded by the notion of governmentality, and then from an international perspective of a system of states and their location in a global spatial order. An assessment of the project of governing society and the fate of the social, would need to be framed not in terms of the life and mooted death of the Leviathan nation-state, but in terms of the struggle between two monsters. The latter struggle might symbolize, from time to time, the relations between such a state and civil society, the social and the economic, the domestic and the international, land and sea, change and order, nation-state and globalization.

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  • Mitchell Dean, 2008. "Governing Society," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 1(1), pages 25-38, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:1:y:2008:i:1:p:25-38
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913601
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