Jason Weidner

Universidad de Monterrey, División de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Faculty Member

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Jason Weidner is a professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico. Prior posts include visiting faculty positions at El Colegio de Mexico and Virgina Tech. His PhD is from Florida International University (2010).
His forthcoming book, Globalizing Governmentality: Sites of Neoliberal Assemblage in the Americas (Routledge, 2017) analyzes governance in the Americas through three 'sites' of neoliberal assemblage: regional trade agreements, intellectual property rights, and nation branding.
Areas of research include international relations theory, global governance, international political economy, Latin America, regionalism, and global environmental goverenance.

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UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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University of Miami

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FLACSO-Argentina

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Pia Riggirozzi

University of Southampton

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Universidad Externado de Colombia

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FLACSO-Ecuador

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Universidad Nacional de San Martín

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Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET

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Pia Riggirozzi y Diana Tussie (eds.), The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism: The Case of Latin America

Foro Internacional, Apr 1, 2015

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Student Protest in Chile and the 'Global Insurgency'

Editorial Introduction

by Jason Weidner and Nicholas Kiersey

Global Society, 2009

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Nation branding, technologies of the self, and the political subject of the nation-state

Discourses of globalization and global governance have called into question the role of the state... more Discourses of globalization and global governance have called into question the role of the state as the primary actor in world politics. Yet these accounts rely on problematic understanding of the state as political subject and fail to account for the ways that the nation state is produced as a political subject. Drawing on Michel Foucault's work on governmentality and the connection between ethics and subjectivity, this paper seeks to flesh out a conceptualization of state subjectivity as a form of governance. More specifically, the paper examines the growing phenomenon of nation branding as an example of a particular, neoliberal form of governmentality. Examining the case of Chile, I argue that nation branding is an increasingly important political technology that seeks to govern international actors -including the nation-state -along neoliberal lines. Such projects carry importance for today's world as international politics is transformed into a space of global competition.

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Governmentality, Capitalism, and Subjectivity

Global Society, Jan 1, 2009

This article takes as its starting point the important contribution that governmentality studies ... more This article takes as its starting point the important contribution that governmentality studies make to our understanding of the social and political conditions that shape contemporary world politics. However, it suggests that the critical potential of a governmentality approach can be more fully realised by dealing in a more substantive fashion with recent developments in capitalism and the latter's relationship with political subjectivity. The article introduces some elements of Italian autonomist Marxist thought and suggests that this intellectual tradition, together with Foucault's theorisation of neoliberal subjectivity in his recently translated 1979 lectures, can offer important insights that could strengthen governmentality accounts of contemporary social and political reality.

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Globalizing Governmentality: Sites of Neoliberal Assemblage in the Americas

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Book Review: Rodger A. Payne and Nayef H. Samhat, Discourse Norms, International Regimes, and Political Community (Albany: State University of New York Press, …

Millennium-Journal of International Studies, Jan 1, 2007

Response to Chandler

by Jason Weidner and Nicholas Kiersey

Global Society, Jan 1, 2010

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Weidner - Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. Nation Branding in Chile (DRAFT).docx

Theories of global governance have called into question the role of the state as the primary acto... more Theories of global governance have called into question the role of the state as the primary actor in world politics. Yet these accounts rely on problematic understanding of the state as political subject and fail to account for the ways that the nation state is produced as a political subject. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s work on governmentality and the connection between ethics and subjectivity, this paper seeks to flesh out a conceptualization of state subjectivity as a form of governance. More specifically, the paper examines the growing phenomenon of nation branding as an example of a particular, neoliberal form of governmentality. Examining the case of Chile, I argue that nation branding is an increasingly important political technology that seeks to govern international actors – including the nation-state – along neoliberal lines. Such projects carry importance for today’s world as international politics is transformed into a space of global competition.

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Pia Riggirozzi y Diana Tussie (eds.), The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism: The Case of Latin America

Foro Internacional, Apr 1, 2015

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Student Protest in Chile and the 'Global Insurgency'