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Foucault and Family Relations analyzes notions of property in rural Australia during the colonial period and examines how these concepts maintained family stability. Using Foucault's ideas on family, sexuality, race, space, and economics, Voyce outlines how inheritance and divorce law were established so that the state could rule from a distance.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Social Context of Farming
Chapter 2: The Dispossession of Aboriginals from Land: An Application of Foucault's Theories on Race and Sexuality
Chapter 3: Property and the Governance of the Family Farm
Chapter 4: A Reading of Divorce Judgments and Reflections on "Spatiality" and "Sexuality"
Chapter 5: Governing at a Distance: The Role of Trusts in Structuring Family Life in Rural Australia
Chapter 6: Towards a 'Family Provision Jurisprudence': A Case Study on the Farming Inheritance Cases
Chapter 7: Towards a 'Family Provision Jurisprudence': A Case Study on the Farming Inheritance Cases
Chapter 8: Governing the Rural Family in Australia from a Distance: The Family Provision Act and the Role of 'Expert Knowledges'
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By Malcolm Voyce
Summary
Foucault and Family Relations analyzes notions of property in rural Australia during the colonial period and how these conceptions maintained family stability. Using Foucault’s ideas on family, sexuality, race, space, and economics, Voyce outlines how inheritance and divorce law were established so that the state could rule from a distance.
