A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium Paperback - 2010

Sam Binkley is assistant professor of sociology at Emerson College, Boston. His research considers the historical and social production of subjectivity in the context of lifestyle practices. He has addressed a range of cases from the lifestyle movements of the 1970s to contemporary neoliberal lifestyle discourse, often invoking the theoretical contributions of Pierre Bourdieu, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault. His recent monograph, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (Duke University Press, 2007), examines the role of lifestyle discourse in the shaping of reflexive subjectivity. He is currently working on a new book on happiness. Jorge Capetillo-Ponce is presently Director of Latino Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development at University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Capetillo-Ponce has worked as Executive Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York City and as advisor to Latino grassroots organizations in New York and Massachusetts. He has published on such issues as social theory, race and ethnic relations, media studies, Latino Studies, and U.S.-Latin America relations. He is the editor of the book Images of Mexico in the U.S. News Media, and author of such articles as 'Deciphering the Labyrinth: The Influence of Georg Simmel on the Sociology of Octavio Paz' and 'Politics, Ethnicity, and Bilingual Education in Massachusetts'.