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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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Grzymski, Jan. "EUROPE’S BORDERS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD: GOVERNMENTALITY AND IDENTITY." CBU International Conference Proceedings 6 (September 27, 2018): 589–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v6.1218.
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This article argues that the EU's neighbourhood policy is deeply entrenched in the Eurocentric spatial imaginaries of the EU as the universal core of and pole of attraction to its neighbours. This is especially clear in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and Eastern Partnership (EaP) concept of an asymmetrical partnership and neighbourhood. The ENP and EaP constituted the EU as a fully European core, while simultaneously othering its neighbourhood as not-fully European with an uncertain status of being between the inside and outside. This article attempts to expose how the ENP and EaP's practices draw a border for the EU/Europe and its neighbourhood with the use of specific EU policy instruments, which are not just technical or professional tools. To the contrary, these instruments hold some potential power in constituting and envisioning the EU's closest outside neighbours. This article will move beyond application-oriented research and draw on critical social theory, especially the already-existing governmentality research as well as Michel Foucault's theory of power. The article concludes with the exposed mechanisms of constructing the political and cultural space of neighbourhood (and ultimately Europe too) through the ENP and EaP's governmental rationalities of their border practices.
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Adebanwi, Wale. "Africa’s ‘Two Publics’: Colonialism and Governmentality." Theory, Culture & Society 34, no. 4 (October 19, 2016): 65–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276416667197.
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In this article, I explore a possible ‘conversation’ between a leading African political sociologist, Peter P. Ekeh, in his theory of ‘two publics’, and the late French philosopher, historian and social theorist, Michel Foucault, in his theory of governmentality. I examine the ‘lingering effects of colonialism’ and point to how Ekeh’s insight and its usefulness for examining the politico-cultural consequences of colonialism in terms of the conduct of conduct in the public realm can be further enriched by relating it to the deeply penetrating insight on the nature of power and domination articulated through the concept of governmentality and sovereign power. The paper concludes that Ekeh’s thesis is particularly suitable for interrogating governmentality and its useful insights for understanding public life in Africa because, like Foucault’s theory of governmentality, it is grounded on a historical account of contemporary processes of socio-political and economic configuration.
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Poole, Susanna. "Voicing the Non-Place: Precarious Theatre in a Women's Prison." Feminist Review 87, no. 1 (September 2007): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400359.
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Based on the personal experience of the author, who is involved in theatre projects with women convicts, the article moves across issues of detention, migration, and precarity. Foucault's concept of governmentality is instrumental in describing the arbitrary exercise of power on incarcerated people and their precarious living conditions. Life in jail is especially uncertain for clandestine migrants. In the article, recollections from the rehearsals of the show / racconti del corpo (Tales of the body) alternate with images and quotes from the play, poems by women convicts, and reflections on detention as the ultimate condition of precarity for migrant women.
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Ailwood, Jo. "Governing Early Childhood Education through Play." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 4, no. 3 (September 2003): 286–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2003.4.3.5.
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Play serves as a significant nodal point in the discursive relations of early childhood education. The aim of this article is to ask how play has come to appear so necessary to early childhood educational settings and how this perceived necessity governs the behaviour of both adults and young children. To do this the author make use of concepts provided through Foucault's notion of governmentality, or the conduct of conduct. The article begins with a thematic overview of some of the dominant discourses of play. It then considers some critiques of play discourses in early childhood education. Following this, it considers how play has been produced as a technology of governmentality in early childhood educational settings.
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Peters, Michael A. "Education, Post-Structuralism and the Politics of Difference." Policy Futures in Education 3, no. 4 (December 2005): 436–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2005.3.4.436.
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This article examines the ‘politics of difference’, a phrase now almost synonymous with postmodernism and the critique of the Enlightenment. The article provides a post-structuralist take on this critique arguing that a critique of Enlightenment values can lead to a deepening of democracy and using Foucault's notion of governmentality to elucidate the way political reason links the form of liberal government with the self-governing individual. It also examines emergent forms of post-coloniality with its emphasis on philosophies of difference and encounters with the Other and borrows the concept of the ‘multitude’ from Hardt and Negri, to talk about Derrida's ‘coming of world demoracy’.
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Pongratz, Ludwig. "Controlled Freedom - the Formation of the Control Society." Journal of Pedagogy / Pedagogický casopis 2, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 161–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10159-011-0008-y.
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Controlled Freedom - the Formation of the Control Society My analysis develops via the following five conceptual steps. The first step links up with Foucault's analysis of techniques of ‘soft’ discipline, which relates to ‘classical’ reform pedagogy, in the transition period from the 19th to the 20th century. The second step thematises the shifts in these disciplinary techniques in the context of the crisis of the so-called ‘environments of enclosure’. Here there is a particular focus on Deleuze's arguments concerning the emergence of a modern ‘society of control’. The third step considers the specific form of the ‘government of the social’, which Foucault approaches with the concept of ‘governmentality’. The fourth step aims to show that the current educational reforms can be understood as a ‘governmental strategy’. The fifth step, finally, thematises the inconsistency of governmental practices. It pursues the possibility that such practices advance, en passant or contrary to their aims, their own contradiction: the preparedness and capacity for critical opposition.
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Villadsen, Kaspar. "Civilsamfundet i det foucaultske blik – magtens relæ eller magtkritikkens base?" Dansk Sociologi 21, no. 2 (April 24, 2010): 7–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v21i2.3279.
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Denne artikel diskuterer civilsamfundets status i poststrukturelle magtanalyser med særlig fokus på governmentality studier. Den påpeger, at begrebet har en ambivalent status inden for denne tradition: Er det en diskursiv styringskategori? Er det et domæne bestående af bestemte institutioner? Er civilsamfundet et gennemstrømningspunkt for magten eller et sæde for social kritik og modmagt? Disse uklarheder udfordres af de senere års politisk-administrative omfavnelse af ”civilsamfund”, ”lokale fællesskaber” og ”velfærdspluralisme”, hvorved civilsamfundets styrings- og kritikpotentialer sammenvæves på nye og uventede måder. To centrale bidrag til teoretisering af magt og civilsamfund vurderes nærmere, nemlig henholdsvis Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri og Nikolas Rose. Mens Hardt & Negri hævder, at civilsamfundet er blevet gennemtrængt af kontrolsamfundets flydende magtformer, tillader Roses foucault-inspirerede tilgang at begribe civilsamfundet som på én gang styringskategori og base for modstand. Artiklen præciserer desuden Foucaults egen forståelse af civilsamfundet og foreslår forskydninger i den foucauldianske tilgang til velfærdsstat og civilsamfund i lyset af aktuelle velfærdsreformer.
Søgeord: Civilsamfund, governmentalitet, Empire, kritik, poststrukturalisme, Foucault.
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Kaspar Villadsen: Civil Society through the Foucauldian Gaze: Networks of Micro-power or the Basis of Critique?
This article considers the treatment of civil society in post structural analysis of power, paying particular attention to governmentality studies. The concept of civil society has an ambivalent status in this tradition. Is it a discursive category of government? Is it a domain constituted by particular institutions? Is civil society permeated by networks of power or is it a seat of social critique and resistance? These ambiguities become more precarious as political and administrative strategies increasingly embrace ”civil society”, ”local communities”, and ”welfare pluralism”, thereby intertwining the potentials of governing and the critique of civil society in new and unexpected ways. The article discusses two influential contributions to theorizing the relationship between power and civil society, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri and Nikolas Rose. While Hardt & Negri suggest that civil society has become penetrated by the fluid powers of control society, Rose’s Foucault-inspired approach allows us to conceive of civil society as a category of government and a base for resistance at the same time. The article also discusses Foucault’s own conception of civil society and suggests modifications in the foucauldian stance on welfare state and civil society in light of current welfare reforms.
Key words: Civil society, governmentality, Empire, critique, post structuralisme, Foucault.
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Nielsen, Mathias Herup, and Niklas Andreas Andersen. "Når styringens ambitioner udfordres af praksis. Om at analysere rummet imellem styringens intentioner og situationel praksis." Dansk Sociologi 27, no. 1 (February 19, 2016): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v27i1.5127.
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Studier, der analyserer det sociale med inspiration fra Foucaults tanker om governmentality, kritiseres i stigende omfang for at afskære sig fra at analysere de praktiske relationer, som politisk styring konkret indlejres i. I artiklen tager vi afsæt i denne kritik og viser, med et studie af forholdet mellem et kommunalt jobcenter og et lokalt beskæftigelsesråd, hvordan governmental magtanalyse kan indfange styringens uforudsigelige, mangefacetterede og immanente karakter ved at fokusere på styringsintentionernes møde med den praktiske virkelighed, der søges styret. Formelt er rådet nedsat til at overvåge og kontrollere jobcentret, men i den praktiske relation er det snarere jobcentret, som overvåger og kontrollerer rådet. Artiklen viser, hvordan dette er muligt ved at analysere jobcentrets arbejde med rådet ved hjælp af en række centrale begreber fra Foucaults forfatterskab. Empirisk trækker studiet foruden formelle myndighedsdokumenter, der beskriver rådets tiltænkte rolle, på praksisinformerende empiri i form af kvalitative interviews og mødereferater over en fire-årig periode.
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Mathias Herup Nielsen and Niklas Andreas Andersen: When Praxis Challenges the Ambitions of Governing. Analyzing the Space between the Intentions of Governing and Situational Praxis
Studies working with the Foucauldian concept of ”governmentality” are frequently criticized for their apparent disregard of empirical reality. This article takes this critique as its point of departure and demonstrates the application of the concept of governmentality in a concrete empirical case study in order to grasp the unpredictable and multifaceted nature of modern day power. The case investigated here is the relationship between a Danish Jobcentre and a so-called local employment council (LBR). The latter was created to ”control” and ”monitor” the former organization. However, in practice, it is rather the other way around – the Jobcentre is controlling and monitoring the members of the LBR. This article draws on a number of well-known Foucauldian concepts to show how this relation of power is practically structured. Empirically the article draws on documents from central authorities as well as on a number of qualitative interviews with the actors involved – hence, the article attempts to meet with the dominant overall critique of the governmentality perspective for disregarding empirical reality.
Keywords: governmentality, Michel Foucault, unemployment policy, jobcentre.
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Kitching, Karl. "Governing ‘Authentic’ Religiosity? The Responsibilisation of Parents beyond Religion and State in Matters of School Ethos in Ireland." Irish Journal of Sociology 21, no. 1 (May 2013): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/ijs.21.1.3.
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The aim of this paper is to advance scholarship on the governance of religious difference and its relationship to social reproduction, inclusion and exclusion, with specific reference to parenting, schooling and childhood. Rather ask ‘how does the state and religion govern religious pursuits?’, the focus of this paper is ‘how might parents’ and children's religious expressions be already implicated, or caught up in, the ordering and coordination of complex social systems?’ Drawing on Foucault's concept of governmentality, it analyses how the political rationalities of freedom of choice and diversity are deployed through media discourse. The paper traces an iterative process of producing a symbolically ‘new’ national space, which re-legitimises state (and more ‘discerning’ school patron) power in a marketised, global age. It argues that ‘Irish’ parents are evaluated in this imagined space in terms of their capacity to combine consumption and religious practices responsibly and authentically. In its implicit citation and elision of generational, classed and racialised hierarchies, the mediated, moral governance of responsible religious and ethical subjects, expressions and practices becomes clear. The paper concludes by noting the potential contribution of governmentality thinking to contemporary debates on religious and secular governance.
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Behrend, Ben. "The Supranational Governmentality of Neoliberalism." Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science 26 (March 31, 2015): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22151/politikon.26.3.
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With his concept of governmentality, Michel Foucault delivered one of the most innovative approaches to analyze neoliberalism, which is predominant on the international stage since “Thatcherism” (1979-90) and “Reagonomics” (1981-88). Even an own discipline developed around this concept (governmentality studies), bringing fruitful theoretical merits. However, there is a huge gap. Benchmark for most researches in the governmentality studies is always the geographical and jurisdictional confined state. Thus, inter-, trans-, and supranational organizations such as the UN, IMF, EU, World Bank or INGOs are completely neglected. I try to fill that gap and to deliver starting points for further analysis of (neoliberal) governmentality on a supranational level by asking: How do neoliberal socio-economic programs of the IMF and European Commission (EC) for Greece work in a Foucauldian perspective? While conducting a theoretical discussion of the governing principles of Troika programs for Greece and using the concept of governmentality, I find that social security is reconcilable with neoliberalism, but an organization of it on a public basis is not. Public welfare is not excluded in neoliberalism; the neoliberal governmentality even insists on private, personal provision, which is based on individual responsibility of a rational acting subject. The objective is to transform social security to a private good. And the same principles are used by the Troika through their adjustment programs during the Greek crisis.
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Villadsen, Kaspar. "Michel Foucault og kritiske perspektiver på liberalismen. Governmentality eller genealogi som analysestrategi." Dansk Sociologi 13, no. 3 (March 21, 2006): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v13i3.443.
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Kaspar Villadsen: Michel Foucault and critical perspectives on liberalism. Governmentality or genealogy as a strategy of analysis
Although the literature on governmentality has produced a series of highly interesting studies focusing on questions of liberalism, government and the state, it is troubled by a number of problems. This paper suggests that some of these problems result from the unclear status of a core analytical concept within this literature: political rationality. The paper seeks to clarify the epistemological and analytical meaning of this concept and to give some suggestions as to which alternative concepts and analytical strategies we can draw from Foucault for future studies of government and its rationalities. It is proposed that we should avoid seeing politics as shot through by some kind of homogeneous, all-embracing rationality. Rather, we should explore, in its unique specificity, the interplay of discourses and counter-discourses and their complex relation to various institutions.
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Welsh, John. "The Meta-Disciplinary: Capital at the Threshold of Control." Critical Sociology 44, no. 1 (February 29, 2016): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920516628308.
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Discipline and Punish has been the seminal text for students of the rationality of disciplinary power. In recent years, critical scholarship has become increasingly keen to move analytically beyond the normative mode of disciplinary power. As such, D&P is increasingly marginalized as a text, in favour of Foucault’s later works. In this discursive context, this paper has a twofold aim. Firstly, I want to think through the transformations in labour control over the last 30 years of neoliberal counterrevolution in terms of the movement beyond disciplinary power. Secondly, I shall critique the autonomous and normative governmentality concept by the reinsertion of the ‘genealogy of capital’ in terms of the ontology of axiomatic capitalism. I shall address the undertreated genealogical movement from disciplinarity to governmentality, by arguing for something provisionally tagged meta-disciplinarity. The worth of such a move is to challenge the critical potency of the governmentality concept as is, in the belief that the ‘meta-disciplinary’ offers the most promising and relevant ligature from Foucault’s work into Marxist scholarship on the transformations of neoliberal capitalism and the technologies of its megamachine that confronts us 40 years on.
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Coopey, Jack Robert, and Jack Coopey. "The Ethics of Resistance." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 6, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v6i1.198.
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The issues of sovereignty and territory can be discussed through ethics. Foucault's College de France lectures (1970-1984) cover such concepts as governmentality and biopolitics that influenced sovereign states, especially in regards to modernity of the eighteenth century. Foucault performs analyses of how discourses through power-knowledge form structures that define an 'Other' in terms of madness, reason and sexuality. This paper shall argue that these 'molar' questions of states are underpinned by a 'molecular' question of ethics, in which Foucault attempts to practice a new form of ethics, thereby subverting the sovereignty in the lecture hall in which he lectured in, and the scholars writing years later. Foucault argues that modernity has changed the nature of sovereignty and territory. Therefore, these questions are not only a question of ethics, but one bound up by the question of modernity and how it has transformed the eighteenth-century conception. The idea that Foucault uses is the definition of ethics, and thus he uses this as an analogy to describe how sovereignties and territories interact. In conclusion, Foucault views sovereignty and territory as philosophical spaces instead of physical or geographical ones, and that a new ethics of resistance is needed to combat neo-liberal bureaucracy.
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Fuggle, Sophie. "Excavating Government: Giorgio Agamben’s Archaeological Dig." Foucault Studies, no. 7 (September 7, 2009): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i7.2638.
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This paper looks at the development of certain Foucauldian concepts and themes within the work of the Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben. Where Agamben is well-known for his critique of biopower in Homo Sacer, his recent work a more complex engagement with Foucault both in terms of his subject matter, governmentality and economy (oikonomia), and his critical methodology, most notably, his reaffirmation of the value of Foucault’s archaeological method. Focusing on three of Agamben’s recent publications, Signatura Rerum: Sul Metodo, Il regno e la gloria. Per una genealogia teologica dell'economia e del governo and What is an Apparatus?, the article looks first at Agamben’s development of Foucault’s archaeological method within his own concept of the signature. It then goes on to consider Agamben’s identification of an economic theology in contradistinction to Schmitt’s political theology and how Agamben’s discussion of collateral damage might be related to Foucault’s notion of security as developed in Security, Territory, Population. Finally, the article considers how Agamben links Foucault’s notion of ‘dispositif’ [apparatus] to an economic theology of government, calling for the development of counter-apparatuses in a similar way to Foucault’s call for ‘resistances.’ The article concludes by considering both the benefits and the limitations of Agamben’s engagement with Foucault.
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Kantola, Anu, Hannele Seeck, and Mona Mannevuo. "Affect in governmentality: Top executives managing the affective milieu of market liberalisation." Organization 26, no. 6 (January 2, 2019): 761–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418821002.
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This article explores the role of affect in governmentality and develops the concept of the ‘affective milieu’ to better understand liberal forms of managerial control in market environments. Taking Foucault’s writings on consent, security and technologies of self as a vantage point, we suggest that the regimes of governmentality are both rational and affective milieus and propose that the Spinozan–Deleuzian affect theory provides an entry point for exploring how regimes of governmentality operate as affective milieus. The Spinozan–Deleuzian affect theory helps in understanding affective complexities and attempts to create affective alliances in governmentality. Elucidating this point, we explore how top executives at globally operating paper and metal companies entered a new affective milieu when going through market liberalisation. The affective milieu oscillates between the dangers and promises of the market. Using the notion of priming, we analyse how the top executives use the affective threats and promises of the opening markets and how they attempted to develop managerial techniques to incite and orient employees in the new milieu.
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Salgirli, Saygin. "Soap Bars and Silk Cocoons: Microecologies of Connectivity in Late Medieval Mediterranean Architecture." Journal of Early Modern History 23, no. 2-3 (May 28, 2019): 121–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342633.
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Abstract This article discusses connectivity in late medieval Mediterranean architecture from a microecological point of view, as initially formulated by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Combining their approach with Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, it argues that Ottoman multipurpose buildings of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries operated as architectures of governmentality on a microecological level. Their composite architectures became relevant and meaningful through their penetrations into everyday experiences, and through their management of a multitude of relationships. On the one hand, this made them world-making institutions in their own localities, and on the other, imperceptibly connected them to distant corners of the Mediterranean, and to different but comparable experiences.
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박승일 and yongjin won. "Neoliberal Governmentality, Financialization and Finance-Dispositif: Focusing on the Concept of Foucault’s Dispositif." 사회과학연구 23, no. 1 (February 2015): 172–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.17787/jsgiss.2015.23.1.172.
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Braeckman, Antoon. "Verzet als ‘tegengedrag’ : Over de bruikbaarheid van Foucaults begrip van contre-conduite." Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/antw2020.2.001.brae.
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Abstract Resistance as ‘Counter-conduct’. On the Usefulness of Foucault’s concept of Contre-conduiteThis paper intends to clarify the peculiarity of counter-conduct as a form of resistance and to examine its usefulness in our neoliberal era. In view thereof, it takes off with a general discussion of Foucault’s views of the relationship between power and resistance. Then the focus shifts more specifically to governmentality and its predecessor, pastoral power, as the specific type of power against which counter-conduct as a form of resistance is directed. This investigation allows in the next step to fathom the uniqueness of counter-conduct as a peculiar form of resistance and to find out whether it is appropriate to resist neoliberal governmentality. The paper concludes by pointing out a major weakness of counter-conduct, viz. its unlikelihood to develop into forms of collective resistance.
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Martin, Graham P., and Justin Waring. "Realising governmentality: Pastoral power, governmental discourse and the (re)constitution of subjectivities." Sociological Review 66, no. 6 (January 23, 2018): 1292–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118755616.
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Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality has been hugely influential in sociology and other disciplinary fields. However, its application has been criticised by those who suggest it neglects agency, and gives overwhelming power to governmental discourses in constituting subjectivities, determining behaviour and reproducing social reality. Drawing on posthumously translated lecture transcripts, in this article the authors suggest that Foucault’s nascent concept of pastoral power offers a route to a better conceptualisation of the relationship between discourse, subjectivity and agency, and a means of understanding the (contested, non-determinate, social) process through which governmental discourses are shaped, disseminated and translated into action. The authors offer empirical examples from their work in healthcare of how this process takes place, present a model of the key mechanisms through which contemporary pastoral power operates, and suggest future research avenues for refining, developing or contesting this model.
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Gimbo, Fernando. "Entre autonomia e heteronomia: para uma concepção crítica de cuidado de si em Michel Foucault [Between autonomy and heteronomy: for a critical conception of care of the self in Michel Foucault]." Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN) 25, no. 46 (January 29, 2018): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21680/1983-2109.2018v25n46id13054.
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Trata-se de mostrar como a ideia de “cuidado de si” deve ser compreendida a partir de um tensionamento caracterizado por um duplo movimento: por um lado, a afirmação da autoafecção como condição do processo de subjetivação; por outro lado, a necessidade de inscrever tal ipseidade no quadro mais amplo das pesquisas genealógicas centradas nas práticas de assujeitamento e dominação. Com isso, o objetivo é sugerir como o problema fundamental do último e inconcluso momento da obra de Foucault é a necessidade de repensar as condições de gênese do sujeito. Para tanto, o artigo é divido em dois momentos: primeiramente, recuperamos uma autocrítica realizada ao final da década de 70, quando, ao introduzir em suas análises o conceito de governamentalidade, Foucault une a temática do governo sobre os outros ao problema do governo de si. Em segundo lugar, analisar estrategicamente o tema da confissão (l’aveu) como exemplo do reconhecimento dessa dimensão autoafectiva da subjetividade dentro de relações de poder e assujeitamento. A partir disso, é possível assinalar certas consequências críticas em torno de uma certa “ética do cuidado de si” que seria própria ao pensamento foucaultiano. [This article aims to show how the idea of “care of the self" must be understood from the tension of a double movement: on the one hand, the affirmation of an auto-affection as a condition to a process of individuation. On the other hand, the need to incorporate such ipseity to the broader framework of genealogical research focused on the subjugation and domination practices. Thus, my goal is to suggest how the initial problem that runs through Foucault’s later works is the need to rethink the conditions of subjectivity genesis. Therefore, the article is divided into two parts: firstly, I recover Foucault’s self-criticism performed at the end of the 70s, when he introduces in his analysis the concept of governmentality. Secondly, I strategically analyze the theme of confession (l'aveu) as an example of recognizing this auto-affectivity dimension of subjectivity even within power relations. Finally, I point out certain possible consequences of such exposure on the theme of ethics in Foucault's thought.]
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Braun, Bruce. "Producing vertical territory: geology and governmentality in late Victorian Canada." Ecumene 7, no. 1 (January 2000): 7–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096746080000700102.
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This paper relates developments in the science of geology to forms of governmental rationality in Canada during the late nineteenth century. By so doing it opens for discussion a topic rarely broached by political theorists: the role that the earth sciences played in the historical evolution of forms of political rationality. The paper contests theoretical approaches that understand the relation between scientific knowledge and state rationality as only instrumental. Instead, the paper demonstrates how attending to the temporality of science (as evident in the emergence of specifically geological ways of seeing nature during the period) helps us understand the ways in which science is constitutive of political rationality, rather than merely its instrument. This argument is developed through a critique of Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’, a concept that historicizes political rationality, yet remains silent on how the physical sciences contributed to its varied forms. The paper concludes with reflections on the implications of such an argument for theories of the social production of nature.
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Kawashima, Ken. "The Revolutionary and Anti-Capitalist Politics of the Late Foucault." South Atlantic Quarterly 121, no. 4 (October 1, 2022): 693–711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10066399.
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This article argues that Foucault’s analysis of ancient philosophy, ethics, and politics after 1979–1980 represents not only a discursive break or discontinuity with Foucault’s decades-long analysis of capitalism, but also an inventive series of techniques and practices to negate and overcome fundamental problems of subjectivity under historical capitalism and in revolutionary political action. Part 1 of the article returns to The Birth of Biopolitics (1978–1979) and discusses four problems that Foucault identified as problems to be negated and overcome in political action and revolution: human capital, historical capitalism, the crisis of party governmentality, and the absence of the economic sovereign in political economy. Part 2 reviews Foucault’s analysis of diakrisis, epimeleia heautou, and metanoia in relation to the absence of economic sovereignty in modern political economy and neoliberal economics, as well as in relation to Marx’s precept to “change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.” Part 3 analyzes Foucault’s concept of parrhēsia—or speaking the truth in the face of power—in relation to Marx’s vision of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Wischmann, Anke, and Jürgen Budde. "nr="237"Dezentralisierung und Disziplinierung im Unterricht als Praktiken der Diskriminierung und Securitization am Beispiel des ,,Trainingsraums“. : Ein Essay." Jahrbuch f??r P??dagogik 2019, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 237–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/jp012019k_237.
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Zusammenfassung: In dem Beitrag wird diskutiert, inwiefern der Trainingsraum bzw. das Responsible Thinking Concept (RTC) Praktiken der Dezentralisierung und Diskriminierung bewirken, um im Kontext einer neoliberalen, individualistischen Logik eine auf den/die einzelnen Lernende*n gerichtete Idee von Schule und Unterricht umzusetzen, die anschlussfähig an reformpädagogische und sich als inklusiv verstehende Unterrichtskonzepte ist. Mithilfe des Konzepts der Securitization, welches an Foucaults Studien zu Gouvernementalität anschließt, kann Dezentralisierung als Diskriminierung im Sinne der inneren Sicherheit der pädagogischen Schulpraxis verstanden werden, die anhand zweier empirischer Beispiele exemplarisch dargestellt wird.Abstract: The paper discusses the extent to which the timeout-room or the Rational Thinking Concept (RTC) simultaneously work as practices of decentralization and discrimination in order to secure the status quo in view of the call for inclusion in the context of a neoliberal, individualistic logic. This status quo is a concrete term for a type of schooling and teaching that is directed towards the individual learner. With the help of the concept of Securitization, which follows on from Foucault’s studies on governmentality, decentralization can be understood as discrimination in the sense of the internal security of educational school practice, which has been reconstructed using two empirical examples.
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Ignatieva, Olga A. "Digital legitimization of political power." Socialʹnye i gumanitarnye znania 7, no. 4 (December 20, 2021): 358–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18255/2412-6519-2021-4-358-367.
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The rapid development of information and communication technologies creates new opportunities not only for science, technology and society, but also for political power and governance. Global capitalism is being replaced by platform imperialism. Political power and the state apparatus now have ample opportunities to improve their performance, from the use of algorithmic management based on big data and digital control of the population to increasing trust in the decisions they make by creating the possibility of direct communication between citizens and public authorities through digital platforms. This paper will examine the specifics of legitimizing power through communication platforms, both at the level of a single state and in the international arena. The theoretical framework of this paper is the systematic analysis of D. Easton. Easton. F. Sсharpf and W. Schmidt. Also, to understand the peculiarities of platform interaction M. Foucault's concept of governmentality is involved. The work examines not only the peculiarities of the legitimization of power at the national and global level in the era of digitalization, but also analyzes the types of legitimacy of political decisions made through regional and global platforms.
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Dahlstedt, Magnus, and Fredrik Hertzberg. "Schooling entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurship, governmentality and education policy in Sweden at the turn of the millennium." Journal of Pedagogy / Pedagogický casopis 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 242–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10159-012-0012-x.
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ABSTRACT Departing from Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the focus of this article is the introduction of entrepreneurial education in Swedish education policy at the turn of the millennium. We analyze the various meanings attached to the concepts of “entrepreneur” and “entrepreneurship” in education policy documents, as well as the main arguments for introducing entrepreneurial education. In policy documents, the “entrepreneur” is portrayed as being flexible, creative, enterprising and independent, as having the ability to take initiative, solve problems and make decisions. Here, there is an emphasis made on economical utility, and its priority over other values. With an increasing mobilization of entrepreneurship in school, previous pedagogical and educational doctrines - focusing on equality, universalism and redistribution - are challenged. Other visions, stating other educational purposes and goals emerge. In the vision of the entrepreneurial school, it becomes logical and natural to emphasize the value education has for the economic system. In conclusion, entrepreneurial education may be seen as a particular kind of governmentality, connecting students and their subjectivity to the rationality of the market - fostering subjects in line with the imperatives of the “advances liberal society”.
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Ettlinger, Nancy. "Precarity Unbound." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 32, no. 3 (July 2007): 319–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030437540703200303.
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Departing from tendencies to bound precarity in particular time periods and world regions, this article develops an expansive view of precarity over time and across space. Beyond effects of specific global events and macroscale structures, precarity inhabits the microspaces of everyday life. However, people attempt to disengage the stress of precarious life by constructing the illusion of certainty. Reflexive denial of precarious life entails essentialist strategies that implicitly or explicitly classify and homogenize people and phenomena, legitimize the constructed boundaries, and in the process aim at eliminating difference and possibilities for negotiation; the tension between these goals and material realities helps explain misrepresentations that can be catastrophic at multiple scales, re-creating precarity. Reactions to 9/11 by the Bush administration represent a case in point of reflexive denial of precarity through strategies that created illusions of certainty with deleterious results. Normatively, the paradox of precarious life and reflexive denials prompts questions as to how urges for certainty in the context of precarity might be constructively channeled. the author approaches this challenge in the final section by drawing from a nexus of concerns about post-Habermasian radical democracy, individual thought and feeling, and network dynamics. Whereas Hardt and Negri reverse the direction of the Foucauldian concept of biopower from top-down to bottom-up, the author draws from Foucault's concept of governmentality in relation to resistance to imagine a cooperative politics operating within as well as across scales.
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Barros, Carlos Pestana, and Carlos J. L. Balsas. "Luanda’s Slums: An overview based on poverty and gentrification." Urban Development Issues 64, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2019-0021.
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Abstract Slum redevelopment is occurring at a rapid pace in many African cities. This paper examines the urban development of contemporary Luanda, the capital of Angola. Central to this examination is an analysis of the city’s slums according to Foucault’s concept of governmentality. The focus is on the chaotic urban development that has resulted from the civil war and on the effects of poverty and gentrification in many of Luanda’s slums. The policy of violence towards slum population adopted by the municipality appears to define a technology of domination, the subjection of the individual to the formation of the state. However, with the high earnings obtained from oil production, the country clearly has the resources needed to fund investments in electricity and utility systems. The continuing persistence of slums and a housing policy based on neglect signifies a form of governmentality, adopted as a means of government coercion and a way of dominating the poor population. The paper closes with a set of policy implications for action.
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Fierro, Alberto. "The MTST Politics of Social Rights: Counter-Conducts, Acts of Citizenship and a Radical Struggle Beyond Housing." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 33, no. 4 (April 17, 2020): 513–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09356-6.
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AbstractThe Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Teto (MTST)—Homeless Workers’ Movement—is a social movement that struggles for housing and for a radical transformation of capitalistic socio-economic relations. The present paper offers a problematization of the movement’s plea to social rights. They are part of the movement’s discourse and strategy. However, the activists’ objective is more radical: they aim at a complete transformation of the Brazilian economy and society. By first discussing two sets of literatures—Critical Legal Theory and Governmentality Studies—this article illustrates the complexity and the ambivalences of a radical politics of rights. Then, by contrasting my ongoing ethnographic research with the work of James Holston and Lucy Earle, I discuss the relevance of a citizenship framework for the MTST’s struggle. Finally, inspired by Foucault’s concept of counter-conducts, the article argues that the movement’s politics of rights represents an effective tactic to contrast neoliberal governmentality and to create radical democratic spaces of struggle and collective resistance.
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Nguyen, Minh Nguyet. "The distant “gaze” on academic mentoring." Text & Talk 39, no. 5 (September 25, 2019): 649–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2019-2043.
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Abstract This study draws on Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore mentoring policy discourse in Vietnamese higher education. It uses Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis to examine the State’s and university’s documents. The findings indicate that the State aspires to maintain its “gaze” by privileging the institution’s policy document as a means of regulating the academics and polarizes the mentors and mentees along the power continuum. A range of linguistic strategies is used to establish the institution’s power and the State’s control has been discursively consolidated. The mentoring policy seems to have a range of flaws but the participants’ voices are not included in the discourse and they are not given opportunities to construct an alternative discourse around their positionality. This suggests that the mentoring policy seeks to frame and regulate the academics but not necessarily to optimise their capacities. The policy is therefore unlikely to create active subjects and mentoring as governmentality in this case may not deliver its productive function.
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Lang, Katarina. "„Thank you for not smoking“ - Zur Gouvernementalität des Rauchens." Medienwelten – Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik, no. 1 (July 24, 2013): 1–135. http://dx.doi.org/10.13141/zfm.2013-1.46.
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In the present work a try is made to make the governmentality of Foucault accessible for analytics in the area of media education. The centre of attention is the (juvenile) smoking prevention. In an introducing part the concept of governmentality is placed and systematically envolved in accordance with the history of Foucaults work. An aggravation of the contemporary neoliberal conditions and the rationalities established in the health-care sector follows. That the 'history of smoking' features a genealogical dimension of the continously proceeding problematization reveals alongside the question of repressive mechanisms of power about smoking. With the tools developed during the process of this presentation it is conclusively expected to systematically take two smoking prevention documents of the Federal Centre for Health Education into account to illustrate the power of the medial staging as a melange of truth, subjectivization and self-leadership. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Foucaultschen Gouvernementalitätsansatz für Analytiken im Feld der Medienpädagogik aufzuschließen. Im Fokus der Darstellung steht dabei der Bereich der Raucherprävention. In einem einführenden Teil wird das Konzept der Gouvernementalität innerhalb der Werkgeschichte Foucaults platziert und systematisch entfaltet. Hieran schließt sich eine Zuspitzung auf die gegenwärtigen neoliberalen Verhältnisse und die im Gesundheitsbereich etablierten Rationalitäten an. Dass die Geschichte des Rauchens eine genealogische Dimension der stetig voranschreitenden Problematisierung aufweist, wird entlang der Frage nach repressiven Machtmechanismen um das Rauchen deutlich gemacht. Mit den so im Verlauf der Darstellung entwickelten Werkzeugen werden abschließend zwei an Jugendliche gerichtete Raucherpräventionsschriften der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung systematisch in den Blick genommen, um so die Macht der medialen Inszenierung als Melange von Wahrheit, Subjektivierung und Selbstführung aufzuzeigen.
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Widegren, Kajsa. "Kärnkraft, jordbävning, krig. Chim|pom och den relationella estetiken som kärnkraftsmotstånd." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 37, no. 1 (June 10, 2022): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v37i1.3142.
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This article analyses the Japanese art collective Chim↑pom and their interventions in contemporary and historical aspects of nuclear politics and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The study situates Chim↑pom’s artistic work in a context of a new governmentality, theoretically developed by the philosopher Brian Massumi (2009). The ”environmental” governmentality is – contrary to Michel Foucault’s (2008) concept biopolitics – not built on calculation and statistics, or securing a flourishing population, but on neoliberal economization of risk and disaster. Intertwined as a part of the environmental governmentality is the neoconservative militarization, that responds to the very same unstable processes, but with military force. These processes are ”environmental”, not because they are ecological or green, but because they act on the forces and powers of open and unstable processes, the forces that we sometimes call natural disasters or accidents. The aim of the article is to analyse Chim↑pom’s work on the Fukushima crisis and the historical traumas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the light of this new governmentality in Japan. Chim↑pom’s relational aesthetics also feeds on these open-ended and unstable of processes, however in terms of social and emotional orientations. The historical conditions that have discursively separated nuclear power as ”peaceful use of nuclear energy” from its disastrous military and warfare use is the hegemony of rational technocratic based in a modern liberal ”biopolitics”. This modernization has built on dichotomies such as that between body and mind, reason and emotion, nature and culture. Chim↑pom thematise nuclear politics from the perspective of those who has been silenced and ignored by this dichotomization, or those
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Mihret, Dessalegn Getie, and Bligh Grant. "The role of internal auditing in corporate governance: a Foucauldian analysis." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30, no. 3 (March 20, 2017): 699–719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-10-2012-1134.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to articulate the conceptual foundations of the role of internal auditing in corporate governance by drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a literature-based analysis of the role of internal auditing from a Foucauldian perspective. Findings It is argued that Foucault’s notion of governmentality provides conceptual tools for researching internal auditing as a disciplinary mechanism in the corporate governance setting of contemporary organizations. The paper develops an initial conceptual formulation of internal auditing as: ex post assurance about the execution of economic activities within management’s preconceived frameworks and ex ante advisory services to enhance the rationality of economic activities and accompanying controls. Research limitations/implications The paper is expected to initiate debate on the choice of theory and method in internal auditing research. The propositions and research agenda discussed can be used to address research questions of an interpretive nature that could enrich the current understanding of internal auditing. Originality/value This paper extends the Foucauldian analysis of accounting to incorporate internal auditing. It offers original propositions as a research agenda and discusses ontological and epistemic considerations associated with adopting the Foucauldian framework for internal auditing research.
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Romashko, Tatiana. "‘To Make a People Out of a Mere Population’: Sovereignty and Governmentality in Hegemonic Russian Cultural Policy." Russian Politics 7, no. 4 (November 9, 2022): 555–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/24518921-00604031.
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Abstract The paper claims that contemporary Russian cultural policy has been determined by political transformations associated with the political project to establish sovereignty that has organized Putin’s regime since 2012. The idea behind it is traced to Putin’s 2006 intention ‘to make a people out of a mere population’. To understand that intention, and to explain the contribution of culture and cultural policy to its concretization, the paper draws on Foucault’s account of sovereignty and governmentality, and the development of the Gramscian notion of hegemony. The paper argues that Putin’s regime uses governmentality in its hegemonic project to establish sovereignty. To describe that project, and the contribution of culture and cultural policy to it, the paper presents evidence of the relation between Putin’s political actions and changes in the structure of Russian state and government, Russian culture, and the cultural policy infrastructure. The paper begins with a discussion of the draft Concept of culture introduced in 2018 and concludes with an examination of its fate in order to raise the question of the contingency of Putin’s hegemonic project.
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Mygind du Plessis, Erik. "Det utilstrækkelige subjekt – En foucauldiansk analyse af selvhjælpslitterær selvstyring." Dansk Sociologi 24, no. 2 (May 11, 2013): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v24i2.4587.
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Denne artikel undersøger, hvordan bestemte personlighedstræk søges problematiseret og kultiveret i moderne selvhjælpslitteratur. Undersøgelsen, som har et særligt fokus på autonomi, trækker teoretisk på Michel Foucaults begreb problematisering samt Foucaults tanker om governmentality og selvstyring. Artiklen kombinerer disse analytiske perspektiver i et forsøg på at vise, hvordan det autonome subjekt forsøges kultiveret på trods af det paradoks der indtræder, når kultiveringen sker gennem subjektets underkasten sig litteraturens anvisninger. Det konkluderes i artiklen, at problemer i selvhjælpslitteraturen generelt formuleres som forskellige typer mangler, der som løsning indebærer konstant udvikling hen mod et mål om selvrealisering, som aldrig helt kan opnås. Subjektet subjektiveres dermed som et ufærdigt projekt, der aldrig er helt godt nok, og som altid har brug for forbedring. Dette gælder også for autonomi som problem, og i artiklens anden halvdel vises det, hvordan den allestedsnærværende ufuldendthed ved subjektet manifesterer sig i paradokset, hvor subjektet bør være selvstændigt, autonomt og handle ud fra sin egne overbevisninger, men samtidig udleder denne evne til at handle autonomt fra de samme autoriteter, som det bør være autonomt fra.
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Erik Mygind du Plessis: The Inadequate Subject: Self-Help Literature and the Government of the Self – a Foucauldian Analysis
This article investigates how current self-help literature seeks to problematize and cultivate certain personality traits. The study emphasizes individual autonomy, and is based on an analytical framework employing Michel Foucault’s concept of problematization and his insights into power and governmentality – particularly those concerned with the various ways in which subjects govern themselves. The article combines these two analytical perspectives in an attempt to show how the objective of creating autonomous subjects is carried out in this literature, despite the paradoxical nature of doing so through the readers’ subjection to self-help instructions. The analysis concludes that the problems taken up in the self-help literature are generally formulated in terms of various forms of incompleteness. This entails a constant and never ending development towards, as a final objective, a self-realization, which can never quite be achieved. Thus the subject is construed as an unfinished project that is never quite good enough, always requiring improvement. The second part of the article analyses how this ubiquitous incompleteness of the subject manifests itself through the paradox of creating autonomy through subjection.
Key words: Foucault, problematization, self-help, autonomy.
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Suryawan, I. Ngurah. "Desa Mawacara, Negara Mawatata: Bali’s Customary Village-Based State Policies in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic." Jurnal Politik 6, no. 1 (September 25, 2020): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/jp.v6i1.328.
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Balinese customary villages are at the center of the state’s strategy for mitigation of Covid-19. Relations between customary villages and the state predate colonial times. The historical dynamics have shown that the traditions and cultures of customary villages (desa mawacara) will always exist within the shadow of the state (negara mawatata). The symbolic narrative of desa mawacara, negara mawatata illustrates the governmentality that the state exercises over the villages. Regional Regulation No. 4/2019 on Customary Villages in Bali and the formation of the customary village-based task force were rational choices made by the Governor of Bali to place the villages at the forefront of the province’s strategy against the pandemic. This article employs Li’s (2012) adaptation of Foucault’s concept of governmentality in its analysis. Discourse analysis was conducted with regards to information extracted from mass media, in-depth interviews, and participatory observation. This article argues that the state’s policies for Balinese customary villages are deeply entrenched in its long history of intervention and cooptation. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the state has been well aware of the extensive influence that customary villages hold over their communities. The state utilizes this reality to exert its authority.
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Gottlieb, Stefan Christoffer, and Nicolaj Frederiksen. "Deregulation as socio-spatial transformation: Dimensions and consequences of shifting governmentalities in the Danish construction industry." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38, no. 3 (August 9, 2019): 484–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654419868465.
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The paper analyses main dimensions and consequences of deregulation in the Danish construction industry. Previous research has often conceptualized deregulation in terms of either the dismantling of states’ regulatory capacity or the layering of initiatives upon existing structures. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality, we contribute further to this discussion by conceptualizing the process of deregulation as a socio-spatial transformation. This is a complex process of transformative change involving the opening and reconfiguration of institutional spaces. Drawing on an analysis of historical and current developments and changing modes of construction governance in Denmark, we show how the construction sector in the 1940–1960s was rendered governable by disciplinary power in order to achieve national modernization. We then illustrate how the developments since the early 1990s have been moulded in a neoliberal governmentality, with a focus on deregulation and the establishment of free markets. On the basis, we discuss the consequences of a shift in governmentalities, suggesting that new deliberative spaces in the form of mediating and interstitial institutions are likely to be in demand for in order to transgress the bounds of neoliberalism and ensure commitment for alternative development agendas.
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Yardımcı, Sibel, and Zeynep Alemdar. "The privatization of security in Turkey: Reconsidering the state, the concept of “governmentality” and Neoliberalism." New Perspectives on Turkey 43 (2010): 33–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600005768.
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AbstractThe privatization of security services, which implies the dispersal of the legitimate right to use force, has been traditionally understood as operating at the expense of state sovereignty. The increasing privatization of security services around the world and the substantial growth of the private security sector in Turkey create the need to reassess the nature of this privatization. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault and other scholars of governmentality, as well as our own field research, we try to make such an assessment, without falling back on the traditional state-market (state-society) duality. Research shows that the Turkish private security sector, reported as being tied to both the exigencies of the state and the rules of the market, has an amorphic nature marked by intricate relationships, formal and informal, with public law enforcement agencies. We argue that the sector's privatization, although defended by some as a way to grant accountability and transparency to security services, is neither a remedy for those gaps, nor does it imply a straightforward decline of the state; rather, it is proof that the idea of an autonomous, unitary “state” should be revised and a sign that a different and intricate network of state apparatus and private experts continue to govern our lives in ways unique to neoliberalism.
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Siyambalapitiya, Janaka, Xu Zhang, and Xiaobing Liu. "Is Governmentality the Missing Link for Greening the Economic Growth?" Sustainability 10, no. 11 (November 14, 2018): 4204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114204.
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The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the green growth research has failed to address the real extent of interconnections and complexity of the relationship between governance and economic, social, and environmental structures. Furthermore, current green growth research tends to focus on the country level, such as the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable development indices, which risks ignoring the additional impacts on micro industrial economies. The lack of connection between green growth and good governance—known as environmental governance—is a crucial gap in practical adoption. Therefore, this study uses Foucault’s governmentality lens to view green growth as a technique of government, seeking an environmentally focused eco-governmentality. We examine the transformation, differential definitions, and critical dimensions of green growth in relation to particular case studies taken from China and South Korea and frame them for future sustainable studies. The findings of this study highlight the significant role of interdisciplinary research, as well both bottom-up and top-down initiatives, on enabling the transition to green growth. The proposed research framework and implementation strategy also identifies new avenues for future research and practices in the field of sustainable development, making it one of the study’s key contributions to the literature.
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Harste, Gorm. "Departementalitet eller guvernementalitet – organisationers og organisationsteoriers historiske sociologi." Dansk Sociologi 21, no. 4 (December 22, 2010): 27–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v21i4.3409.
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Artiklen undersøger de selvbeskrivelser, der er blevet fremsat i forsøgene på at organisere organisation lige siden 1000-tallet. Moderne organisationsforståelse er opstået gennem hundreder af år. Koder for organisatorisk kommunikation er blevet sammensat, udviklet og raffineret eksempelvis i konflikter om centralisering eller decentralisering i korpsånd og i bureaukrati. I tolkningen heraf anvendes Niklas Luhmanns begrebsdannelse, der udviser en anden tilgang til organisationshistorie og organisationssociologi, end den, der kendes fra Weber og Foucault.
Søgeord: Organisationssociologi, Foucault, Luhmann, historisk sociologi.
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Gorm Harste: Departmentality or Governmentality – the Historical Sociology of Organisations and Organisation Theory
History of organisations probably goes back to the 11th century. The long story of their development has been told by Max Weber and Michel Foucault. However Foucault did not elaborate a general organisational sociology and Weber’s story created a somewhat incomprehensible disordered complexity. Hence traditional organisational analyses trace organisation theory back a hundred years – to Weber and a few others. The present story about departmentality derives its conceptual framework not within governing or steering
as Foucault does, but in the problem of delegation. The concept and theories of power were established in order to handle coordination at spatial distance. The aim of powerful concepts and theories of organisation was to establish
communication in forms of simultaneous cooperation between distant operations. The article establishes this temporal conception in a historical sociology of organisation using Niklas Luhmann’s system theory. Power only empowers
if centralised power is able to decentralise and abstain from forced control in favour of the activity of parts departed and detached from the whole. The parts and the members of the organ got their identity fi rst described in a conception of ”corpus spiritus”, later called ”esprit de corps” and then ”corporate spirit”. The article analyses these semantics and their developments.
Key words: Luhmann, Foucault, history of organizations, historical sociology, governmentality, department.
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Leer, Jonatan. "TV-kokken som kønsopdrager." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 43, no. 120 (December 30, 2015): 83–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v43i120.22972.
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This article explores the gendering of a series of new formats of food television in which male TV-chefs goes from being lifestyle expert to social and moral entrepreneurs as they engage in food activist project to better national food culture. These readings draws on Foucault’s term “governmentality,” the reworking of this concept in relation to food education and food literacy. The article argues that we see a tendency in which male celebrity chefs use cooking classes and promises of food literacy to make distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate gender identities. These hierarchies are not only created between men and women, they also create hierarchies between middle-class and working-class masculinity.