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SUMMARY:POLIS Department Seminar: When war is oikonomia by other means - P
 atricia Owens\, University of Sussex
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Patricia Owens will talk about her most recent book\
 , Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Socia
 l (CUP\, 2015).\n\nProfessor Owens is the author of Between War and Politi
 cs: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt (2007) and co
 -edits the European Journal of International Relations.\n\nAbout Economy o
 f Force ( http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-internati
 onal-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/eco
 nomy-force-counterinsurgency-and-historical-rise-social?format=HB):\n\nIn 
 this talk\, Patricia Owens will present a new history and theory of counte
 rinsurgency with major implications for social\, political and internation
 al thought. Retrieving the surprisingly neglected history of household gov
 ernance\, or oikonomia\, she will show how the techniques and domestic ide
 ologies of household administration are highly portable and play a remarka
 bly central role in international relations. In two late-colonial British 
 emergencies in Malaya and Kenya\, US counterinsurgency in Vietnam\, and US
 -led campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq\, 'armed social work' was the conti
 nuation of oikonomia - not politics - by other means. Though never wholly 
 succeeding\, counterinsurgents drew on and innovated different forms of ho
 usehold governance to create units of rule in which local populations were
  domesticated. Military strategists conceived population control as sociol
 ogical warfare because the social realm itself and distinctly social forms
  of thought are modern forms of oikonomikos\, the art and science of house
 hold governance. There is an important story to be told of when\, where an
 d why the social realm first emerged as the domain through which human lif
 e could be intervened in and transformed. Owens will present this story in
  terms of modern transformations in and violent crises of household forms 
 of rule.
LOCATION: Room 119\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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