Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life

What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as things--and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a newly emergent civil order? These are among the many questions addressed in the interpretive essays in Archives of Infamy.

Crisscrossing the Atlantic to bring together unpublished radio broadcasts, book reviews, and essays by historians, geographers, and political theorists, Archives of Infamy provides historical and archival contexts to the recent translation of Disorderly Families by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault. This volume includes new translations of key texts, including a radio address Foucault gave in 1983 that explains the writing process for Disorderly Families
two essays by Foucault not readily available in English
and a previously untranslated essay by Farge that describes how historians have appropriated Foucault.

Archives of Infamy pushes past old debates between philosophers and historians to offer a new perspective on the crystallization of ideas--of the family, gender relations, and political power--into social relationships and the regimes of power they engender.

Contributors: Roger Chartier, Coll ge de France
Stuart Elden, U of Warwick
Arlette Farge, Centre national de recherche scientifique
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Jean-Philippe Guinle, Catholic Institute of Paris
Michel Heurteaux
Pierre Nora, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales
Michael Rey (1953-1993)
Thomas Scott-Railton
Elizabeth Wingrove, U of Michigan.