Readings: The Governed in Politics

I just read the introductory essay, Michel Feher's The Governed in Politics, partly because a friend in my PhD program told me that he didn't really believe in nongovernmental politics, so I was hoping with this essay to get a better understanding of what they are (or aren't if my friend is right.) Feher points out that the term covers a wide range of activity, and that some of the actors would certainly not recognize what they are doing as nongovernmental or political. What is our understanding(s) of the term and how it relates to what we're doing and the world at large? It seems like we've talked about it in terms of specific groups and practices, but not so much as a larger unifying idea.