abstract:Governmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the later years of his life, roughly between 1977 and his death in 1984, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France during this time.
Michel Foucault's conceptof "governmentality" — aterm used to describe a rethinking of thenatureofgovernment — is an increasingfocus of scholarlyattention.