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Biebricher, Thomas. "Staatlichkeit, Gouvernementalität und Neoliberalismus." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 38, no. 151 (June 1, 2008): 307–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v38i151.476.

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The paper examines Foucault's analytics of the state based on the concept and history of governmentality. While the approach has a promising critical-analytical potential, the latter is not always realized in the works of the governmentality studies. These problems that are particularly related to the conceptualisation and analysis of Neo-Liberalism as a governmentality are examined from the perspective of Bob Jessop's Neo-Marxist strategic-relational theory of the state. It is suggested to adopt some of the insights developed in this approach to realize the potential of Foucault's analytlcs of state more thoroughly.
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Kopecký, Martin. "Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education - Perspective on the Normalization of Social Risks." Journal of Pedagogy / Pedagogický casopis 2, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 246–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10159-011-0012-2.

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Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education - Perspective on the Normalization of Social RisksThe article deals with the relevance of the work of Foucault to critical analysis of the political concept of lifelong learning that currently dominates. This concept relates to the field of adult education and learning. The article makes reference to the relatively late incorporation of Foucault's work within andragogy. It shows the relevance of Foucault's concept of a subject situated within power relations where the relation between knowledge and power plays a key role. The analysis of changing relations between knowledge and power will help us to understand important features of neoliberal public policies. The motif of human capital is key. The need to continually adapt to the changing economic and social conditions follows on from the neoliberal interpretation of learning, and the individual is to blame for failure on the labour market or in life generally.
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Biebricher, Thomas. "Genealogy and Governmentality." Journal of the Philosophy of History 2, no. 3 (2008): 363–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187226308x336001.

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AbstractThe essay aims at an assessment of whether and to what extent the history of governmentality can be considered to be a genealogy. To this effect a generic account of core tenets of Foucauldian genealogy is developed. The three core tenets highlighted are (1) a radically contingent view of history that is (2) expressed in a distinct style and (3) highlights the impact of power on this history. After a brief discussion of the concept of governmentality and a descriptive summary of its history, this generic account is used as a measuring device to be applied to the history of governmentality. While both, the concept of governmentality and also its history retain certain links to genealogical precepts, my overall conclusion is that particularly the history of governmentality (and not necessarily Foucault's more programmatic statements about it) departs from these precepts in significant ways. Not only is there a notable difference in style that cannot be accounted for entirely by the fact that this history is produced in the medium of lectures. Aside from a rather abstract consideration of the importance of societal struggles, revolts and other forms of resistance, there is also little reference to the role of these phenomena in the concrete dynamics of governmental shifts that are depicted in the historical narrative. Finally, in contrast to the historical contingency espoused by genealogy and the programmatic statements about governmentality, the actual history of the latter can be plausibly, albeit unsympathetically, read in a rather teleological fashion according to which the transformations of governmentality amount to the unfolding of an initially implicit notion of governing that is subsequently realised in ever more consistent ways. In the final section of the essay I turn towards the field of governmentality studies, arguing that some of the more problematic tendencies in this research tradition can be traced back to Foucault's own account. In particular, the monolithic conceptualisation of governmentality and the implicit presentism of an excessive focus on Neoliberalism found in many of the studies in governmentality can be linked back to problems in Foucault's own history of governmenality. The paper concludes with suggestions for a future research agenda for the governmentality studies that point beyond Foucault's own account and its respective limitations.
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Hamilton, Scott. "Foucault’s End of History: The Temporality of Governmentality and its End in the Anthropocene." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 46, no. 3 (June 2018): 371–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305829818774892.

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Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality is widely used throughout the social sciences to analyse the state, liberalism, and individual subjectivity. Surprisingly, what remains ignored are the repeated claims made by Foucault throughout his seminal Security, Territory, Population lectures (2007) that governmentality depends more fundamentally on a specific form of time, than on the state or the subject. By paying closer attention to Foucault’s comments on political temporality, this article reveals that governmentality emerged from, and depends upon, a very specific cosmological order that experiences time as indefinite: what Foucault calls our modern ‘indefinite governmentality’. This is elaborated here in three ways. First, by reviewing the transformation from a linear Christian cosmology to our modern indefinite governmentality through what Foucault calls the ‘de-governmentalization of the cosmos’. Second, by arguing that our experience of indefinite temporality was concretised by the geological discovery of ‘deep time’. Third, by engaging a contemporary geological concept that returns humanity to its lost cosmological centrality, thereby re-governing the cosmos: the Anthropocene, or the ‘human epoch’. Analysed using indefinite governmentality, Foucault’s forewarning of an ‘end of history’ is implicit in the new concept of the Anthropocene’s origins and ends. If it is the paradigm shift its proponents claim, then it threatens to end the temporality of the state, the subject, and governmentality itself.
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Binder, Clemens. "Metternich 2.0? Surveillance and Panopticism as modes of authoritarian governmentality in Austria." Surveillance & Society 15, no. 3/4 (August 9, 2017): 397–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v15i3/4.6650.

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This paper follows the question if newly introduced surveillance laws and programmes have led to an authoritarian mode of governmentality in Austria in the light of a higher threat perception. As in other countries, terrorism and crime have undergone a process of securitization in Austria, leading to a higher desire for control in order to tackle those threats. However, while other countries have faced serious attacks on their soil, Austria remains free of substantial threats, still the government has introduced strict surveillance laws. Based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and Dean's assumption that governmentality can contain illiberal techniques and practices in liberal regimes, this paper gives an insight in the rationales behind Austrian surveillance governance.
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VRASTI, WANDA. "Universal but not truly ‘global’: governmentality, economic liberalism, and the international." Review of International Studies 39, no. 1 (November 30, 2011): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210511000568.

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AbstractThis article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of ‘scaling up’ a concept originally designed to describe the politics of advanced liberal societies to the international realm. In response to these charges, I argue that critics have failed to take full stock of Foucault's contribution to the study of global liberalism, which owes more to economic than political liberalism. Taking Foucault's economic liberalism seriously, that is, shifting the focus from questions of natural rights, legitimate rule, and territorial security to matters of government, population management, and human betterment reveals how liberalism operates as a universal, albeit not yet global, measure of truth, best illustrated by the workings of global capital. While a lot more translation work (both empirical and conceptual) is needed before governmentality can be convincingly extended to global politics, Foucauldian approaches promise to add a historically rich and empirically grounded dimension to IR scholarship that should not be hampered by disciplinary admonitions.
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Ignatjeva, Olga. "Digital governmentality: Participatory governance vs. biopolitics." Political Expertise: POLITEX 16, no. 4 (2020): 462–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.403.

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The notion of governmentality was first used by the French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault during his lectures at the College de France in 1978-1979. The term is one of the characteristics of political power, along with sovereignty and discipline, but it characterizes its later stages of evolution. Foucault and his commentators give multiple meanings to this term, but perhaps the most accurate ones are the definition of governmentality as a way of rational thinking about the realization of political power and governmentality as the art of government. The emergence of governmentality is associated with the emergence of political economy and implies the use of biopolitical techniques, a concept that Foucault introduces to emphasize the need for socio-hu- manitarian knowledge in disciplining the “political body”. Evolution and peculiarities of biopolitics are discussed in detail in this article in relation to each type of governmentality. This article examines three types of governmentality (liberalism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism) introduced by the French thinker and proposes considering a new type of governmentality that characterizes the modern stage of society’s development. Here we use a governmentality concept as a methodological instrument for analysis of a new type of governance. The author notes that digital governmentality is characterized by governance using digital platforms. The article provides a detailed description of the architecture of one such platforms, as well as a set of algorithms that will mediate the interaction between the population and government representatives. The purpose of this article is to identify the essence of digital governmentality and its nature. Is the emerging form of public governance through digital platforms, as a consequence of its digitalization, demo- cratic and participatory, or is it still a more sophisticated way of governing the population using manipulative, biopolitical strategies? An attempt to answer this question is made in the article by considering both the evolution of the term governmentality itself and the technological features of digital platforms with their interpretation based on Michel Foucault’s concept.
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Gane, Mike. "The New Foucault Effect." Cultural Politics 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-4312952.

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This review article considers two lecture courses by Michel Foucault (1972–73, 1979–80) and two books relating to the whole series of lectures (1970–84) by Stuart Elden. Foucault’s lecture courses can be divided into three phases, the first focused on the difference between sovereign and disciplinary power; the second on biopower, security, and liberalism; and the third on the government of the self and others. Foucault in 1976–79 altered his earlier frame by introducing the concept of governmentality and security dispositif and identified a missing, fourth type of power-governmentality called “socialism,” around which his concerns revolved for the remaining courses. Today there is a new Foucault effect, which has arisen around the courses on governmentality, neoliberalism, and biopower. The two courses by Foucault are situated in relation to the complete set of courses, and Elden’s books are welcomed critically as throwing light on the background to the lectures and Foucault’s main publications in this period but are problematic with respect to Foucault’s theoretical framework.
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Crogan, Patrick. "Bernard Stiegler on Algorithmic Governmentality: A New Regimen of Truth?" New Formations 98, no. 98 (July 1, 2019): 48–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/newf:98.04.2019.

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This essay examines philosopher of technology and media Bernard Stiegler's propositions concerning the nature and effects of the automation of social existence through computational processes deployed in online media. It argues for the critical pertinence of Stiegler's approach to this widespread and now increasingly apparent deployment. I centre my examination on Stiegler's adoption and critical re-reading of Antoinette Rouvroy and Thomas Berns' concept of 'algorithmic governmentality'. This concept characterises the realtime deployment of these automated processes as a significant transformation from the pre-digital era's application of statistical methods of analysis and prediction of social phenomena, a transformation driven above all by the strategic development and application of recent advances in AI and machine learning. Drawing on Michel Foucault's influential analysis of governmentality and his work on the interconnections of power, knowledge and truth in social control, Rouvroy and Berns propose that algorithmic governmentality ushers in a new regime of truth. Stiegler accepts in large part their analysis of what I term this new 'regimen' but challenges the claim that it amounts to the apparatus of a new truth. My discussion considers the terms and the stakes of this disagreement about the truth, and the place of the technological regimen in this disagreement.
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Giltrow, Janet. "Modernizing Authority: Management Studies and the Grammaticalization of Controlling Interests." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 28, no. 3 (July 1998): 265–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/8glw-48hb-p30w-mepl.

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Noting that recent research in workplace writing tends toward description of contexts for writing, this study turns its attention to text itself, focusing on the nominal expressions in the discourse on management. Analysis shows that these nominals recursively delete not only agent roles but also those of experiencer, object, and goal, and at the same time conflate the interests of researchers and managers. Calling on pragmatic theories of politeness, Giddens' characterization of bureaucracy as reflexive system, and Foucault's concept of “governmentality,” this study suggests that management nominals are a particularly intense expression of modernity itself.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Foucault's concept of governmentality"

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Elshimi, Mohammed. "The concept and practice of de-radicalisation in the PREVENT strand of the UK counter-terrorism strategy : what is de-radicalisation?" Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22105.

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De-radicalisation has become increasingly prevalent in the UK’s counter-terrorism policy as a strategy for tackling the threat of religiously inspired violence/extremism. Recently, British citizens fighting in Middle Eastern conflicts have rekindled the preoccupation of policymakers with the radicalisation of British Muslims. In fact the work of PREVENT post 2011 has primarily been recalibrated towards a greater focus on de-radicalisation interventions, which is delivered by the police through the Channel programme. Channel is perceived by policy-makers to be a more streamlined and effective way of dealing with radicalised/extremist individuals than the wide remit of PREVENT initiatives between 2006 and 2010. Indeed since becoming placed on a statutory footing in 2015, PREVENT requires public institutions, like schools and universities, to identify ‘vulnerable’ individuals’ at risk of radicalisation. And yet despite the greater attention on de-radicalisation, very little continues to be known about what makes violent individuals leave terrorism behind. De-radicalisation in PREVENT is characterised by the absence of credible research, little or no empirical evidence for policy development, confusion surrounding its conceptual framework, and conflicting policy logics. The following thesis is based on a case-study examination of de-radicalisation with 27 PREVENT practitioners. Through qualitative semi-structured interviews, my investigation seeks to address the problems that arise from the concept and practice of de-radicalisation in PREVENT by ascertaining (a) an ontological understanding of de-radicalisation and (b) the practice of de-radicalisation. The findings of the fieldwork data revealed the existence of multiple conceptions of de-radicalisation and a number of conceptual features unique to the UK context. Despite yielding a more fruitful conceptual and empirical understanding of de-radicalisation, the data in itself nevertheless could not fully explicate the relationship between several critical themes comprehensively within an analytically generative framework. With the inductive method falling short, I draw on Michel Foucault’s concept of the ‘technologies of the self’. Comprising of discursive, disciplinary, and confessional technologies, it is argued that the technologies of the self allows us to reframe the concept beyond the narrow confines of counter-terrorism policy and place it within wider governmental relations. Situated within neo-liberal governmentality, the technologies of the self encourage individuals to work on themselves and regulate their behaviour through a wide range of discursive, practical, and technical interventions. Seen in this way, de-radicalisation is therefore less about the mitigation of violence and more about the making of a particular political and ethical subjectivity. Ultimately, the technology of the self eschews the conceptual problems inherent in the PREVENT conception of de-radicalisation, the limitations evident in the literature, whilst amplifying the salient findings of my fieldwork data. It provides a more robust concept and theory that successfully captures and explains de-radicalisation in the UK context. This thesis thus makes an original contribution to knowledge by (1) being the first study to gather primary data on de-radicalisation in the UK; (2) offering an alternative concept of de-radicalisation; and (3) contributing to theories on the governmentality of radicalisation policies, focusing on the micro-politics of identity in neoliberal governance.
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Willaert, Thijs [Verfasser]. "Postcolonial studies after Foucault : Discourse, discipline, biopower, and governmentality as travelling concepts / Thijs Willaert." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1064990231/34.

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Carkner, Gordon Ewart. "A critical examination of Michel Foucault's concept of moral self-constitution in dialogue with Charles Taylor." Thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428387.

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Bradford, Simon. "Power and competence in professional education : a study of youth workers." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5128.

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This thesis explores shifting ideas of youth work, and the changing notions of professional competence that have shaped it since its emergence at the end of the last century. It begins by discussing Foucault's distinctive conception of power. This analysis is applied later in the thesis to youth work itself and to its forms of professional education and training. It is argued that modem professional practices illustrate the changing nature of disciplinary techniques in modem societies. These techniques are employed to discipline both professions themselves (by 'normalising' professional practices), and their client groups, and are also part of the contemporary problem of 'government'. Indeed, it is argued that models of professional education reflect the historically changing rationales on which British society has been organised and managed. The thesis identifies three phases of this: 'emergent welfarism', social government' or 'welfarism' and 'neo-liberalism. Drawing on a range of historical sources, a number of changing assumptions about young people in the context of youth work are identified, such as their characterisation as an inherently and naturally problematic social category. The 'discourse of adolescence' which draws on a range of knowledges about young people (from scientific to moral) is seen as providing a powerful justification for the expansion of youth work over the last hundred years or so. The youth worker's modem role in managing groups, offering counselling and acting as a 'broker' of social and moral knowledge is discussed. The progressive development of the professional education and training of youth workers since the 1930s is examined together with its curriculum content and the techniques and practices through which youth workers have been socialised into their occupational roles. After the initial tendency towards leadership training through apprenticeship, the professional model became organised on 'technical-rational' principles, with various 'techniques of the self' by which youth workers became disciplined into their professional identities (for example by 'surveillance' and 'confession'). Focus is given to the paradigmatic development and deployment of such techniques at the National College for the Training of Youth Leaders in the 1960s. The thesis concludes with an analysis of the intense criticism to which professional education and training in youth work has been subjected in the last decade, including the separation of theory and practice, unclear curricula, academic and professional elitism, and the marginalisation of learners' experience. The 'discourse of competency' is identified as being important in shaping current approaches to professional education and training in youth work. Finally, it is suggested that the emergent model of professional education is, ironically, characterised by an increasingly intense and invasive application of the techniques of disciplinary power identified earlier in the thesis. Competency practices we suggest facilitate the attempt to govern, professionals ahd professional practice. The thesis is broadly structured in four parts, and in the following way: Chapter 1 provides a broad introduction and context for the thesis. In Part One, Chapter 2 discusses Foucault's concept of power which informs the thesis. In Part Two, Chapter 3 discusses the managerial and disciplinary functions of the human service professions, providing a context for the subsequent analysis of youth work. Chapter 4 goes on to identify models of professional education in their political and social contexts and concludes with a discussion of the 'competency model'. In Part Three, Chapters 5 and 6 explore the distinctive contribution which youth work has made to the regulation and disciplining of young people. In these chapters links are made between broad political objectives and the evolving knowledge and practices of youth workers. In Part Four, Chapter 7 identifies the earliest attempts to identify and enhance competence through the training and education of youth workers. Chapter 8 explores youth work training in the 1960s and 1970s, identifying the essentially humanistic discourse which subsequently dominated youth work and the training of youth workers. In the context of political shifts beginning in the 1970s, Chapter 9 analyses the emergence of a 'discourse of competency' in youth work, and its challenge to the prevailing humanistic orthodoxy which characterised the professional education and training of youth workers. Finally, Chapter 11 draws general and particular conclusions to the thesis.
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Suchodolski, Gabriel Locke. "Sobre o conceito de desenvolvimento: da imagem de ocidente ao imaginário ocidental." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7269.

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Esta dissertação trata da construção sociológica do conceito de desenvolvimento, caracterizando-o como imaginário social, temporalidade explícita e auto-atribuída do socialhistórico (nos termos de Cornelius Castoriadis). Este imaginário é um conjunto entrelaçado de significações articuladas cosmologicamente e tributárias de uma teologia, mesmo em suas simbologias e concepções secularizadas. Essa cosmologia se sobrepõe a uma concepção de natureza humana distinta e a uma ontologia ocidental dualista. Neste quadro, o desenvolvimento aparece como conceito central da cosmologia ocidental e da ciência social, que orquestra essas significações no imaginário imprimindo a necessidade de uma ordenação de elementos com vistas a uma finalidade paramétrica ou valorativa, uma versão de teodicéia complementada por uma governamentalidade elementos formados pelo encontro da tradição bíblica com o pensamento grego. O desenvolvimento é a expressão paradigmática do imaginário social ocidental. Ao traçar suas características principais, explorando um pouco de suas origens, o conceito de desenvolvimento é reconstruído como um instrumento analítico para permitir a comparação entre as diversas concepções particulares e específicas de desenvolvimento encontradas no pensamento social e na política contemporânea.
This thesis is aimed at a sociological construction of the concept of development, characterizing it as a social imaginary, an explicit and self-attributing temporality of the social-historic (in Cornelius Castoriadis terms). This imaginary is an interlaced set of significations which are cosmologically articulated and theologically tributaries even in their secular conceptions and symbols. This cosmology is matched with both a distinct conception of human nature and a dualist, Western ontology. In this frame, development appears as the central concept of both Western cosmology and social science. It orchestrates significations in the imaginary and produces a necessity for the ordering of elements with a final aim, be it parametric or value-attributed. Development is a version of theodicy coupled with governmentality elements formed by the encounter of the biblical tradition and Greek thought. Development is the paradigmatic expression of Western social thought. By tracing its main characteristics and exploring some of its origins, the concept of development is reconstructed as an analytic tool that allows for the comparison between diverse conceptions of development in contemporary politics and social thought.
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(12691885), Shaikhul Md Islam. "Governmentality and corruption in Bangladesh: An analysis of strategic power." Thesis, 2003. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Governmentality_and_corruption_in_Bangladesh_An_analysis_of_strategic_power/19930274.

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Until now corruption studies have been dominated by structuralism and Marxism, which define corruption as the 'abuse of public power' for private gain. This form of analysis is primarily concerned with the causal factors, that is, how public officials abuse law and public power to achieve a private gain in the form of bribery or kickbacks. While an analysis of abuse of public power is crucial in understanding how corruption is produced, the conventional analysis of corruption overlooks two important points. First, it does not view power as a contested concept and that there is no single version of power. Second, production of corruption is seen as proportional to the abuse of public power or breaking of law. In contrast, this thesis argues that corruption could crop up through the legitimate means of power. This form of power, which is conceptualised as a strategic form of power in Foucauldian literature is implicated in governmentality. The term corruption is used here in a broader sense than the conventional studies. It refers to activities that grossly violate the public gain objective of the government.

Foucault's concept of governmentality, which provides the theoretical framework of this study, signifies governance that is the ways a government govern things. It involves a combination of various institutions, authorities, knowledge, and expertise to problematise and address a situation of governance by constructing policies, plans and laws. Drawing on Foucault's concept of strategic power that identifies power as productive, ascending, intentional and non -subjective in relation to governmentality, this study shows that it is possible for a government to provide protection, security, financial benefits to some privileged private citizens by ignoring the public gain objective of the government.

Accordingly two cases of governmentality with reference to two particular legislations in Bangladesh known as the Indemnity Ordinance/ Act of 1975/1979 and the Father of Nation's Family Members Security Act of 2001 provide the empirical and discursive evidence of corruption for this study. Two Foucauldian methodologies, archaeology and genealogy, are used while genealogical analysis plays the prominent role.An analysis of governmentality demonstrates how strategic power has been used to construct laws for governing purpose in Bangladesh at least twice over the last twenty six years (1975-2001) implicating private gains for some citizens. From the evidences of the above two laws, this thesis shows that laws as governmentality in Bangladesh can also be seen as possible breeding grounds of corruption.

The study concludes that although the Indemnity Ordinance/Act 1975/1979 and the Father of Nation's Family Members Security Act 2001 do not show any bribery or kickbacks type of private gain, they do exhibit a subtle form of corruption within the legal boundaries of societies. That is, these two laws were constructed to achieve private gain for some private citizens of Bangladesh by undermining the vision of the Constitution of Bangladesh, which underscores and guarantees equity and social justice for all citizens of Bangladesh.

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Elyasi, Samira. "Michel Foucault's concept of genealogy." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327233.

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In this paper, I try to briefly describe Michel Foucault's concept of genealogy. This concept will be located in a wider context, which includes some epistemological debates regarding the possibility of historical knowledge. In this regard I try to introduce the most basic arguments which have traditionally been used against this possibility. Genealogy will be finally presented as a way to overcome these arguments in a critical manner. Key Words: history, historical knowledge, a priori imagination, hermeneutic circle, substance, origin, power, sexuality.
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Indiogine, Salvatore Enrico Paolo. "The Achievement Gaps and Mathematics Education: An Analysis of the U.S. Political Discourse in Light of Foucault's Governmentality." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/150969.

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The research question that I posed for this investigation is how the principles of Foucault’s governmentality can shed light on the political discourse on the achievement gaps (AGs) at the federal level. The AGs have been for some years now an actively researched phenomenon in education in the U.S. as well as in the rest of the world. Many in the education profession community, politicians, social activists, researchers and others have considered the differences in educational outcomes an indication of a grave deficiency of the educational process and even of the society at large. I began this work with a review of the educational research relevant to the above mentioned research question. Then I presented my research methodology and de- scribed how obtained my data and analyzed them both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results of the analysis were discussed in the light of federal legislation, the work of Foucault on governmentality, and the relevant literature and woven into a series of narratives. Finally, I abstracted these narratives into a model for under- standing the federal policy discourse. This model consists of an intersection of eight antitheses: (1) the rgime of discipline versus the apparatuses of security, (2) the appeal to danger versus assurances of progress or even success, (3) the acknowledgement of the association between the AGs and the “disadvantage” of the students and the disregard and even prohibition of the equalization of school funding, (4) the desire for all students to be “equal,” but they have to be dis-aggregated, the (5) injunction of research based instruction practices imposed by an ideology-driven reform policy, (6) we expect equal outcomes by using market forces, which are known to produce a diversity of results, (7) the teacher is a “highly qualified” professional, but also a functionary of the government, and finally (8) the claim to honor local control and school flexibility versus the unprecedented federalization and bureaucratization of the schools, which is a mirror of the contrast between the desire to establish apparatuses of security in schools and the means to establishing them through rgimes of discipline.
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Davis, George V. "The working self and the subject of freedom Michel Foucault's analytics of liberalism and the work ethic as a technique of liberal governmentality /." 2005. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-801/index.html.

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Angumuthoo, Maryanne. "An examination of the university as a disciplinary institution in terms of Michel Foucault's postmodernist concept of disciplinary power, with specific reference to the nature of power relations between students and faculty." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5174.

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Books on the topic "Foucault's concept of governmentality"

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Szakolczai, Arpád. From governmentality to the genealogy of subjectivity: On Foucault's path in the 1980s. Badia Fiesolana, Firenze: European University Institute, 1993.

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Luke, Timothy. Environmental Governmentality. Edited by Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.29.

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This chapter asks critical thinkers and activist movements to concentrate their efforts on mapping out how and why the essential tasks of government today pivot on the arts of exercising power in techno-economic forms in both “the ecology” and “the economy” to protect the environment, maintain order, and attain the good life through more effective governmentalizing actions. In turn, they must determine if such actions either attain democratic action and environmental justice or simply accentuate technocratic domination and social injustice. The chapter provides an overview of governmentality, as Michel Foucault developed this concept, and reevaluates his provisional notion of “milieux” as it relates to shaping the environmental governmentality that many accept as progressive green political action. It concludes by stressing the importance of political reflexivity and resistance to counter the managerial impulses behind environmental governmentality.
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Martín Rojo, Luisa. Neoliberalism and Linguistic Governmentality. Edited by James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.28.

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This chapter examines the role of language policies, ideologies, knowledge, and practices in the expansion and consolidation of neoliberalism and the forms of governance that emerge from it. It explores the current context of neoliberalism, explaining how it becomes a practice of governance of individuals and social groups. Adopting Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the chapter traces the main features of neoliberal governmentality, including its linguistic components. The chapter examines how neoliberalism is transforming language policies, educational programmes, and practices through the discourses of personal enterprise and language as profit. The impact of these discourses on speakers’ experiences and trajectories, particularly in the processes of linguistic self-training and capitalisation, are examined, as well as new forms of subjectivity that emerge from these processes. The final section discusses how the effects of neoliberalism as a practice of governance provide a window to a better understanding of the changes and challenges of language policies.
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Lemke, Thomas. Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason. Verso Books, 2019.

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Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason. Verso Books, 2019.

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Brown, Wendy. Power After Foucault. Edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548439.003.0003.

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This article examines changes in the conception of political power after Michel Foucault. It suggests that while Foucault has politicized certain practices and knowledge fields that were previously insulated from inquiry into the interests shaping them, such politicization need not be conflated with political life tout court. It argues that Foucault's formulations of power, and especially of government and governmentality, have made this distinction extremely difficult. However, rather than giving up the distinction on the one hand, or rejecting Foucault's problematization of it on the other, political theory after Foucault is faced with the task of delineating it anew.
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Patton, Paul. 33. Foucault. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708926.003.0033.

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This chapter examines Michel Foucault's approach to the history of systems of thought, which relied upon a distinctive concept of discourse he defined in terms of rules governing the production of statements in a given empirical field at a given time. The study of these rules formed the basis of Foucault's archaeology of knowledge. The chapter first considers Foucault's conception of philosophy as the critique of the present before explaining how his criticism combined archaeological and genealogical methods of writing history and operated along three distinct methodological axes corresponding to knowledge, power, and ethics. It then describes Foucault's archaeological approach to the study of systems of thought or discourse, along with his historical approach to truth. It also discusses Foucault's theory of freedom, his views on the nature and tasks of government, and his ideas about subjectivity in relation to care for the self.
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Shin, Ki-young. Governance. Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.16.

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the concept of governance, comparing Foucauldian, mainstream, and feminist approaches. It compares central tenets of governmentality and governance, and presents feminist critiques of both. To demonstrate feminist contributions to debates on governance, it analyzes neoliberal imperatives in new governance regimes, gendered dimensions of governance and governmentality neglected by mainstream approaches, and feminist engagement with governance through civil society and NGOization. It demonstrates that while the concept of governance offers new perspectives on the state and the operation of power in an era of neoliberal globalization, the neoliberal reconfiguration of the state and the devolution of responsibilities to the market and civil society pose new challenges for feminists in dealing with far-reaching changes in governmentality and governance.
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Ambrus, Mónika. The European Court of Human Rights as Governor of Risk. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795896.003.0006.

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This chapter analyses the ‘risk dispositief’ of the European Court of Human Rights and explores the ways in which the Court governs risk. It begins with an exploration of the specific features of governing uncertain future events that are adopted by the Court, including the identification of the forms of risk that the Court incorporates in its mode of governance and the manner in which it allocates responsibility for these risks. It then examines the manner in which the Court’s risk dispositief creates new subjectivities and redefine relationships. The Foucauldian concept of governmentality provides the theoretical framework for exploring the Court’s risk dispositief, and provides a tool for analyzing the Court’s techniques of risk governmentality. The ultimate purpose of this enquiry is to ascertain how the Court addresses risk-related complaints and how it conceptualises risk in different contexts.
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Walton, Jeremy F. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658977.003.0001.

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The introduction delineates the primary themes, concepts, and arguments of the book and summarizes the major communities and institutions of my ethnography. After outlining revisiting the competing fantasies of “purified” secularism and bucolic Islam, it offers a brief history of Kemalist laicism and neoliberalism in Turkey, which doubles as a theoretical discussion of statist sovereignty and liberal governmentality. It then introduces the concept of the “civil society effect” in relation to broader theories of civil society, space, and place. Following this, the introduction reviews literature on Islam and civil society in general before summarizing the three major groups of my study: the Nur Community, the Hizmet Movement, and Turkish Alevis.
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Book chapters on the topic "Foucault's concept of governmentality"

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Hampton, Timothy. "What Is a Colony Before Colonialism? Humanist and Antihumanist Concepts of Governmentality from Foucault to Montaigne." In Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue, 93–115. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32276-6_5.

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Lemke, Thomas. "Beyond Anthropocentric Framings." In The Government of Things, 121–40. NYU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479808816.003.0007.

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Here I put forward an understanding of biopolitics that no longer exclusively addresses human individuals and populations but attends to the complex associations of humans and nonhumans captured in Foucault’s concept of the milieu. The chapter starts by reviewing Foucault’s writings on genetics and heredity, suggesting that they put forward a material-semiotic understanding of life and incorporating insights from contemporary genetics and molecular biology. The next sections focus on the notion of the milieu in Foucault’s work. After reconstructing the brief genealogy of the term in his lectures on governmentality at the Collège de France, I argue that the milieu occupies a central role in liberal governmentality as it seeks to control and canalize “free” circulations across the human-nonhuman divide. Since it attends to the co-constitution of humans and nonhumans, the milieu also allows for a non-anthropocentric framing of biopolitics that no longer exclusively addresses human individuals and populations.
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Deutscher, Penelope. "“Post-Foucault”: The Critical Time of the Present." In Critical Theory in Critical Times, 207–32. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231181518.003.0010.

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In this chapter, Deutscher argues for a different understanding of Foucauldian critique and of the possibilities for transformation of the present with which his concept of critique is typically associated. Foucauldian critique, she argues, is “cumulative.” By exploring the diversity of analyses offered by Foucault, she shows that a number of the forms of power he described did not replace each other chronologically in a linear progression. Instead, as Wendy Brown has emphasized, forms of power coincide. But instead of coinciding a mere contingent assemblages, Foucault shows that modes of power redeploy elements belonging to other modes. His analysis thus reveals that such elements are forces of immanent contestation lying in the present. As such, Foucault’s cumulative understanding of critique proves itself timely when contemporary modes of governmentality (including omnipresent neoliberalism) appear to be particularly intransigent.
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"Analysing health and health policy: introducing the governmentality turn." In Reframing Health and Health Policy in Ireland, edited by Claire Edwards and Eluska Fernández. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719095870.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the twin central themes of the book: Irish health policy and the concept of governmentality. It explores key characteristics associated with Foucault and others’ exposition of the governmental approach and asks what such an analysis can add to already-existing analyses of Ireland’s health and healthcare agenda, whilst remaining cognisant of its criticisms. The chapter also discusses Ireland’s health system – and Irish health policy – in the context of advanced neoliberal welfare regimes, and in so doing it highlights some of the specificities of the governance of Ireland’s health policy and practices that make it distinctive from other jurisdictions, not least its system of two-tier (public and private) provision, and the residual nature of its welfare state. Finally, the chapter introduces the key themes of the book and the specific chapters.
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"III Governmentality and Population." In Foucault's Discipline, 59–77. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822382065-005.

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"3. Reframing the Theory: Biopower and Governmentality." In Foucault's Critical Ethics, 89–134. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780823271276-004.

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Clegg, Stewart, and Johan Ninan. "Foucault's governmentality and the issue of project collaboration." In Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing, 99–106. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800880283.00020.

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Quinn, Matthew J. "Bureaucratic practice and governmentality." In Towards a New Civic Bureaucracy, 39–66. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447359647.003.0004.

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The chapter begins with the author’s recollections of first entering the peculiar world of a UK civil servant and how rules and organisation shape the scope of public service. It gives a short genealogy of the emergence of bureaucracy and the narratives behind it. It explores competing narratives of the purpose and legitimacy of bureaucracy, comparing Weber’s account with the more civic-facing views of Woodrow Wilson and Waldo, negative views from classical liberalism, and the impacts of managerialism. This suggests that bureaucracy can either be viewed as a neutral force focused on economic efficiency or a civic force focused on an inclusive citizenship. It considers the impact of recent public administration reforms such as New Public Management and suggest this has overlayed an even narrower focus on to the Weberian structures and practice. This has made it less able to connect issues and serve the public rather than the individual. It illustrates the impact of practical examples of Foucault’s concepts of knowledge-power, territory, institutions, narratives and disciplines in constraining change and suggest the need to see bureaucracy as a civic ecosystem. This is captured in discussion with colleagues about the enabling characteristics of governing for sustainable development.
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Deutscher, Penelope. "Judith Butler, Precarious Life, and Reproduction." In Foucault's Futures, 144–90. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231176415.003.0006.

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Expands on a some rarely discussed mentions of embryonic life by Judith Butler. Suggests an extension of the concept of precarious life, so as to include a genealogy of the subject understood as specially responsible for life: including the “responsible reproductive subject.” The chapter ends with variants of on this responsibility which emerge in the context of contemporary reproductive technologies.
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Bowman, Nicholas David, and Megan Condis. "Governmentality, Playbor, and Peak Performance." In Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps, 186–210. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3487-8.ch008.

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Gamification—the use of video game elements in non-gaming environments—is an effective and lucrative method of compelling individuals to engage with behaviors normally found aversive or uninteresting. Gamified applications are found in myriad areas, from education and social justice to health and wellness. A preponderance of evidence suggests that gamified health applications can have a positive effect on mental and physical health, but these benefits are often not balanced against the unanticipated or unknown consequences to individuals that come with coercing or “governing” players towards activities that might not be for the players' benefit. The chapter describes and explains gamification, discusses various health and wellness gamification programs, and then highlights existing and speculates on potential exploitative interactions stemming from uncritical engagement with health and wellness gamification. This critique is offered through Foucault's lens of “governmentality.”
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Conference papers on the topic "Foucault's concept of governmentality"

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Milović, Miroslav. "PRAVO NA TELO KOD NIČEA I FUKOA." In XVII majsko savetovanje. Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Kragujevcu, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/uvp21.913m.

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The article analyzes the critical possibilities of Nietzsche and Foucault's thinking that arise from the concept of the body. If for Nietzsche, philosophy is a poor understanding of the body, for Foucault it is the possibility of rethinking subjectivity itself. From these readings, it will be possible to reflect on the right to the body as a reinvention of life.
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