Focus and Scope

Welcome to Governmentality and Pluralism: Power, Authority and Society. This journal offers readers insights into how governmental technologies and power operate in societies with multiple authorities and governance practices. Readers will benefit from interdisciplinary research that deepens understanding of the interaction and contestation among state, religious, indigenous, and community-based authorities across diverse contexts.

Key thematic areas include:

Governmentality and Technologies of Power – Explore how different forms of governing, biopolitics, and resistance work, focusing on neoliberal, postcolonial, and opposition dynamics.

Plurality of Authorities and Negotiation of Power – Study how various state, religious, indigenous, and community authorities share and negotiate power, highlighting mixed forms of governance and contest.

Religious Governance and Spiritual Authority – Examine how religious institutions govern, including different traditions and how they shape morality and social roles.

Indigenous Governance Systems – Study the leadership and practices of indigenous governance in resource use, rights, working with the state, cultural renewal, and ritual.

State-Society Relations and Everyday Politics – Analyze how states and societies interact, including the roles of civil society, local participation, and everyday resistance.

Public Policy and Institutional Reform – Focus on how policies and institutions adapt to diversity, including design, reform, translation, and evaluation.

Contemporary Governmentality and Global Issues – Consider government responses to digital, health, migration, security, global changes, and radical movements today.