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Author Head, Richard Michael, author

Title The archive of life : adapting a Foucaultian power and powerlessness of society with a focus on Alice Springs / Richard Michael Head
Published Champaign, IL : Common Ground Publishing, 2018
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Will to Foucault -- Antiquity -- Culture -- Demographics -- Indigenous -- Educating -- Health -- Politics -- Economising -- Tourism -- Religion -- Leisure -- Conclusion : underscoring the powerlessness of society
Summary "The book is an explanation of society creating its evolving landscape utilising one place Alice Springs as a focused example over time, but of how the place developed through multiple resistances flowing back and forth from bottom up and top-down. From this theoretical/concrete background the book aims to look at how power operates over time to ensure that society is an ongoing concern, and the imagining of a power behind the scenes that saturates and drives the whole process. In essence, bringing one closer to the Truth of the matter. Following its colonial beginnings as a tentative toe hold within the Central Australian landscape to a fully developed representative of Western capitalism today, Alice Springs makes an ideal living laboratory of how contemporary society evolves and is. The presence of this laboratory of life is too good a reason not to address the meaning that is the Archive of Life"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "First published in 2018 as part of the New Directions in the Humanities book Imprint"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2019)
Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Power (Social sciences) -- Australia -- Alice Springs (N.T.)
Social control -- Australia -- Alice Springs (N.T.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Power (Social sciences)
Social conditions
Social control
SUBJECT Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Social conditions
Subject Northern Territory -- Alice Springs
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018033836
ISBN 9781612299662
1612299660