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Lacombe, Dany. "Les liaisons dangereuses : Foucault et la criminologie." Criminologie 26, no. 1 (September 22, 2005): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/017330ar.
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With Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault offered the social sciences a theory of power, and conceptual tools that radically transformed law reform studies. In criminology, for example, the social constructionist tradition, by drawing on Foucault's notion of power, increasingly inscribed law reform studies in a narrative of the dispersal of social control. Attempts to reform the criminal justice system are understood in terms of the increased penetration and expansion of social control into the whole of the social body ; thus, "nothing works !" In this article, I intend to challenge this conventional wisdom on law reform and the dispersion of social control, by demonstrating that it is founded on an essential-ist notion of power that we cannot attribute to Foucault. In light of his work on sexuality, and governmentality, I will examine how Foucault's productive notion of power is better understood in terms of "mechanisms for life", strategies that both constrain — through objectifying techniques — and enable — through subjectifying techniques — agency. The implications of Foucault's productive notion of power for law reform are examined in terms of methodological considerations.
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Giltner, T. Alexander. "The power unto glory: a Bonaventurean critique of Foucault's critique of power." Scottish Journal of Theology 72, no. 1 (February 2019): 46–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930618000686.
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AbstractThis article puts Michel Foucault's conception of power into critical engagement with that of Bonaventure. For Foucault power is manifested in wills to knowledge or meaning-making in a senseless universe in order to legitimate the drama of dominations. Bonaventure, however, roots his notion of power in the essence of God, so that any act of power from God cannot be classified as domination, but rather donation – a free-willed gift. This is especially evident in Bonaventure's theology of creation and sacrament. As such, Bonaventure provides a way to deal with Foucault's critique theologically without dispensing with it altogether.
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Gallagher, Michael. "Foucault, Power and Participation." International Journal of Children's Rights 16, no. 3 (2008): 395–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157181808x311222.
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AbstractIn this paper, I argue that Foucault's work on power offers a distinctive and original perspective with the potential to afford insights into the nature of participation. I begin by providing a brief exegesis of Foucault's conceptualisation of power in his middle to late work. The notion of governmentality is drawn out as a potentially useful tool in understanding participation as a profoundly ambiguous phenomenon. I conclude by outlining some of the possible implications of Foucault's thinking about power for studying children's participation.
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White, Stephen K. "Foucault's Challenge to Critical Theory." American Political Science Review 80, no. 2 (June 1986): 419–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1958266.
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Power, subjectivity, otherness, and modernity are concepts that contemporary political theorists increasingly find to be closely interwoven. In search of an adequate comprehension of the interrelationships among these concepts, I examine the work of Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas. I argue that Foucault, although he is provocatively insightful on a number of key points, ultimately provides a less satisfactory account than Habermas. The core problem is Foucault's inability to conceptualize juridical subjectivity, something which is necessary if he is going to connect his notion of aesthetic subjectivity with his endorsement of new social movements.
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Collett, Guillaume. "Assembling Resistance: From Foucault's Dispositif to Deleuze and Guattari's Diagram of Escape." Deleuze and Guattari Studies 14, no. 3 (August 2020): 375–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2020.0409.
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While Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (1972) is quite rightly considered a fully fledged response to May ’68 and as one with the radical politics of the 1970s, their 1980 follow-up, A Thousand Plateaus, has tended to provoke a more perplexed reaction. In this article, I will argue that we can nonetheless extract a definite line of argumentation serving a precise political end if we relate the text back to Foucault's mid-1970s output on power/knowledge. In particular, I will emphasise Deleuze and Guattari's appropriation of the Foucaultian notion of dispositif (apparatus) via their concept of the assemblage, the former being understood as a concrete articulation of lines of power, knowledge and subjectivation, as well as the Foucaultian ‘diagram’, the latter being a more abstract or indeterminate stage of the dispositif whose relative indeterminacy, for Deleuze and Guattari, offers a means of escape. I will show that, making room for the assemblage's opening back onto the relative indeterminacy of its generative stages, the assemblage incorporates into itself a more immanent alternative to the dispositif that is focused on collective desire rather than power, within which resistance becomes a primary and generative dimension rather than a counter-attack. In the first section, I will outline Foucault's approach to power, knowledge and subjectivation, emphasising Deleuze's reading of Foucault though without trying to overdetermine my reading in this way. Next, I will turn to the Foucaultian diagram. In the third section, I will focus on A Thousand Plateaus, demonstrating how the notion of assemblage developed in this text responds to and builds upon Foucault's approach to power/knowledge and subjectivation in order to reconceive resistance.
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Ridley, Barbara. "Articulating the Power of Dance." Power and Education 1, no. 3 (January 1, 2009): 333–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/power.2009.1.3.333.
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Making some minor changes to the syllabus of a peripheral GCE subject – Advanced Level (A-level) Dance – would hardly seem to be of much importance to anyone except dance students and their teachers. But the loss of dance notation is not as unimportant as it might appear: there are implications for the status of dance in the curriculum, for its ability to attract a range of students and for the development of the subject itself. Whilst being a popular social activity, in UK schools dance is constructed as a physical subject with an aesthetic gloss, languishing at the bottom of the academic hierarchy. Dance as a discipline is marginalised in academic discourse as an ephemeral, performance-focused subject, its power articulated through the body. Yet dance is more than just performance: to dismiss it as purely bodies in action is to ignore not only the language of its own structural conventions but also the language in which it might be recorded. Using the notion of docile bodies, the author considers the centrality of the body as instrument in defining the power of dance and how Foucault's mechanisms of power and knowledge are exemplified in current conceptions of dance in education.
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Olivier, Lawrence. "La question du pouvoir chez Foucault: espace, stratégie et dispositif." Canadian Journal of Political Science 21, no. 1 (March 1988): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900055621.
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AbstractMichel Foucault's framework has substantially changed the manner in which we understand power. His analysis substitutes for theoretical representations a study of complex mechanisms of production like strategy, tactic, apparatus, technologies, and so forth. Those terms are not simply figures of speech or analogies. The archaeology of knowledge brings a new perspective of study for social analysis: space. That concept shapes Foucault's approach from L'Histoire de la folie to Souci de soi. From that point of view, it is less important to linger on his notion of power than to inquire about his general theory of productions developped through the archaeological analysis of madness, jail, sexuality or subjectivity. It is in this fashion that Michel Foucault's work will contribute to modify social and human sciences' practices
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Spierenburg, Pieter. "Punishment, Power, and History." Social Science History 28, no. 4 (2004): 607–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012864.
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This article reevaluates the work of Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias, in so far as it relates to criminal justice history. After an examination of the content of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir (1975), it discusses Foucault’s receptions among criminal justice historians. Some of the latter appear to have attributed views to the French philosopher that are not backed up by his 1975 study. Notably the “revisionist” historians of prisons have done so. As a preliminary conclusion, it is posited that Foucault and Elias have more in common than some scholars, including the author in earlier publications, have argued. They resemble each other to the extent that they both thought it imperative to analyze historical change in order to better understand our own world.Nevertheless, Elias is to be preferred over Foucault when it concerns (1) the pace of historical change and (2) these theorists’ conception of power. It is demonstrated that Foucault’s notion of an abrupt and total change of the penal system between 1760 and 1840 is incongruent with reality and leads to ad hoc explanations. Rather, a long-term change occurred from about 1600 onward, while several elements of the modern penal system (as claimed by Foucault) did not become visible until after 1840. With respect to the concept of power, Elias and Foucault converge again on one crucial point: the notion of the omnipresence of power. However, whereas Elias defines power as a structural property of every social relationship and acknowledges its two-sidedness, Foucault’s concept of power has a more top-down character, and he often depicts power as an external force that people have to accommodate. Although Foucault’s notion of the interconnectedness of power and knowledge is valuable, Elias has a more encompassing view of sources of power.
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Molnar, Andrea K. "‘Died in the Service of Portugal’: Legitimacy of Authority and Dynamics of Group Identity among the Atsabe Kemak in East Timor." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 37, no. 2 (May 15, 2006): 335–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463406000579.
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The paper examines the metaphors and dynamics of Atsabe Kemak group identity construction, with a strong emphasis on local cultural ‘remembering’ of Atsabe history vis-à-vis relations of power. The analysis utilizes the analytical frameworks of Foucault's notion of discourse and Bourdieu's concept of habitus. The secondary burial of a former chieftain highlights the dynamics of Atsabe Kemak responses to new nation-building processes and to international influences that have appeared during the United Nations' transitional administration.
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Domjanović, Luka. "Fromm’s Notion of Spontaneity as a Solution to Foucault’s Problem of Freedom." Synthesis philosophica 34, no. 1 (2019): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21464/sp34109.
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In this paper, I attempt to apply Fromm’s notion of spontaneity to Foucault’s system of repression. It tends to shed new light on Foucault’s problem of freedom, using the notion which Foucault largely underestimates. Difficulties of such an application arise because of differences in Fromm’s and Foucault’s starting points in analysing the causes of human submission throughout history. Nonetheless, there is a point of convergence: Foucault and Fromm both describe a type of individual’s escape towards the institutions of power. Whether these institutions are highly formalised or not, highly complex or rather simple, dispersed or centralised, they designate repression on account of their lack of spontaneity.
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Snoek, Anke. "Agamben’s Foucault: An overview." Foucault Studies, no. 10 (November 1, 2010): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i10.3123.
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This article gives an overview of the influence of the work of Michel Foucault on the philosophy of Agamben. Discussed are Foucault’s influence on the Homo Sacer cycle, on (the development) of Agamben’s notion of power (and on his closely related notion of freedom and art of life), as well as on Agamben’s philosophy of language and methodology. While most commentaries focus on Agamben’s interpretation of Foucault’s concept of biopower, his work also contains many interesting references to Foucault on freedom and possibilities—and I think that it is here that Foucault’s influence on Agamben is most deeply felt. This article focuses on the shifts Agamben takes while looking for the Entwicklungsfähigkeit in the work of Foucault.
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Iliopoulos, John. "Foucault’s Notion of Power and Current Psychiatric Practice." Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 19, no. 1 (2012): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2012.0006.
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Carr, Jamie. "From Technologies of Power to Technologies of the Self." Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 4, no. 3 (December 10, 2010): 323–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/post.v4i3.323.
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This essay examines Christopher Isherwood’s resistance to normative narratives of homosexuality and pacifism and Western culture’s attitude toward Eastern spirituality, each of which get constructed in the 1930s and beyond as passivity and developmental failure and ultimately as regression from modernity. I read this resistance in light of Michel Foucault’s notion of “governmentality,” which involves both technologies of power over individual subjectivity and technologies of the self. The latter, in which a subject works to transform the self, becomes a form of “spirituality” for Foucault that strikingly resembles Isherwood’s response to discursive power made possible through his practice of Vedanta, the religious philosophy based on the ancient Indian scriptures the Vedas. Vedanta becomes at once a counter-discourse for Isherwood in opposition to Western notions of subjectivity and a mode of “intentional living.”
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Zahra, Momal. "Dynamics of Surveillance and Discovery of Self in Musharraf Ali Farooqi's The Story of a Widow." Journal of English Language, Literature and Education 1, no. 04 (May 18, 2020): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.54692/jelle.2020.01049.
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This qualitative research identifies Foucault's idea of panoptical surveillance (1995) based on Jeremy Bentham's ideal prison in The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Research draws parallel between 'panopticon' and societal surveillance which is in the form of traditions, norms, male gaze and resistance strategies and traces behaviour of characters in response to surveillance. The character of novel's protagonist – Mona is particularly analyzed through panoptic lens of theory. This study traces notion of “ideology” and “interpellation” from Althusser's essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (1971) in order to depict struggle of Mona against ideological surveillance. Social ideologies form identity of individuals and thrust their power and subjection on Mona who in turn fights for creating her own identity. The research endeavours to explore struggle of women in finding 'Self' under societal surveillance and ideologies which hail people as 'subjects'. It also aims to study whether it is possible for a woman to attain self-satisfaction by rebelling against prevailing societal notions which act as hurdle in practicing their rights or not. This research will further help to discover dynamics of power and authority for both genders and shall establish humanistic approach of gender equality. It will aid in inculcating the notion that societal surveillance should be beneficial for growth of all individuals rather than restricting the autonomy of some (women) in society which leads to social unrest.
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Rivera López, Diego, Nicolás Fuster Sánchez, and Jaime Bassa Mercado. "The method Foucault gave us: the Foucauldian toolbox for thinking about philosophical problems in a digital context. Some notes and examples from the 2019 Chilean mobilizations." Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, no. 17 (September 13, 2021): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.22370/rhv2021iss17pp271-288.
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This paper seeks to highlight the French philosopher Michel Foucault's contributions regarding his analysis of power. In this sense, the text proposes a conceptual transition around the ideas that could have interested the author within a digital context, integrating some notes and examples from the 2019 Chilean mobilizations.The article has an initial section that exposes genealogy as a way of approaching social reality. Then, it shows the social behaviors anticipation possibilities and their relationship with the information available on the web. Later, it renders an account of the algorithmic governmentality notion as a key to reading it in both normative structure and a political possibility to final state reflections.
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Gunzenhauser, Michael G. "Care of the Self in a Context of Accountability." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 110, no. 10 (October 2008): 2224–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810811001005.
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Background/Context This article is a part of a larger philosophical and empirical project by the author and collaborators to understand the ways in which high-stakes accountability policy fosters normalizing educational practices and concomitant resistance by educators and students. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study In this article, the author explores how Michel Foucault's notion of the “care of the self” might provide a conceptual basis for resistance to the normalizing practices and disciplinary power associated with high-stakes accountability and resulting educational practices. Research Design The author employs a philosophical analysis of key concepts associated with normalization, the care of the self, the educated self, and high-stakes accountability. The article is presented as a philosophical argument. Conclusions/Recommendations The author suggests that to shift attention from limited notions of the self toward expansive and creative possibilities for constituting the self requires clarity on what we mean by the educated self in a context of accountability. It also necessitates a new professional ethics characterized by critical reflection and intersubjective engagement.
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Rafael, Vicente L. "The Sovereign Trickster." Journal of Asian Studies 78, no. 1 (February 2019): 141–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911818002656.
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In our current moment, authoritarian figures loom large. One of them is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. He seems to embody two notions of sovereignty. One is related to law, the other to norms: on the one hand, the power of taking exception to the former, deciding who will live and who will die; on the other hand, the freedom from the limits of the latter by way of dissipation, irresponsibility, and excess. This article explores the double sources of his power with reference to the works of Michel Foucault and Achille Mbembe. While most of Foucault's work has focused on Europe, Mbembe has written about postcolonial conditions in ways that make critical use of Foucault. Drawing from their writings, this article situates Duterte as a “sovereign trickster” who seeks to dominate death while monopolizing laughter. Finally, this article speculates on the comparative usefulness of this figure of the sovereign trickster with regard to President Donald Trump, whose form of tricksterism derives, the author argues, from the tradition of blackface minstrelsy.
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Eggers, Nicolai Von, and Mathias Hein Jessen. "Kongen hersker, men regerer ikke - Guvernementalitet, statificering og statspraksis hos Michel Foucault." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 66 (March 9, 2018): 89–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i66.104224.
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Michel Foucault developed his now (in)famous neologism governmentality in the first of the two lectures he devoted to ’a history of governmentality, Security, Territory, Population (1977-78) and The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-79). Foucault developed this notion in order to do a historical investigation of ‘the state’ or ‘the political’ which did not assume the entity of the state but treated it as a way of governing, a way of thinking about governing. Recently, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has taken up Foucault’s notion of governmentality in his writing of a history of power in the West, most notably in The Kingdom and the Glory. It is with inspiration from Agamben’s recent use of Foucault that Foucault’s approach to writing the history of the state (as a history of governmental practices and the reflection hereof) is revisited. Foucault (and Agamben) thus offer another way of writing the history of the state and of the political, which focuses on different texts and on reading more familiar texts in a new light, thereby offering a new and notably different view on the emergence of the modern state and politics.
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Łojek, Stanisław. "Tworzenie siebie i wolność. Myśl etyczna Foucaulta." Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 15, no. 2 (August 20, 2020): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1895-8001.15.2.14.
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In the later phase of his work, Foucault was particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of creating our own subjectivity and presenting its ethical dimension. The notion of pastoral power as well as the distinction between morality focused on ethics and morality focused on a normative code played a significant role in this undertaking. The former turned out to be particularly important in the context of Foucault’s earlier findings, according to which, a subject is a social construct, a product of regimes of power/knowledge. This was because pastoral power, although like any other kind of power it forms us from outside, strongly implies an active participation of the subject in the creation of himself. This kind of activity dominated also in morality focused on ethics which, according to Foucault, was practised by the Greco-Roman elites (above all in the first centuries of our era). In my text, I analyse the above themes in an attempt to show that in Foucault’s works they constitute the emancipation project of “new” morality.
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Łojek, Stanisław. "Tworzenie siebie i wolność. Myśl etyczna Foucaulta." Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 15, no. 2 (August 20, 2020): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/895-8001.15.2.14.
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In the later phase of his work, Foucault was particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of creating our own subjectivity and presenting its ethical dimension. The notion of pastoral power as well as the distinction between morality focused on ethics and morality focused on a normative code played a significant role in this undertaking. The former turned out to be particularly important in the context of Foucault’s earlier findings, according to which, a subject is a social construct, a product of regimes of power/knowledge. This was because pastoral power, although like any other kind of power it forms us from outside, strongly implies an active participation of the subject in the creation of himself. This kind of activity dominated also in morality focused on ethics which, according to Foucault, was practised by the Greco-Roman elites (above all in the first centuries of our era). In my text, I analyse the above themes in an attempt to show that in Foucault’s works they constitute the emancipation project of “new” morality.
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Bielskis, Andrius. "GALIA, ISTORIJA IR GENEALOGIJA: FRIEDRICHAS NIETZSCHE IR MICHELIS FOUCAULT." Problemos 75 (January 1, 2009): 73–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2009.0.1974.
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Straipsnyje aptariamos Friedricho Nietzsche’s ir Michelio Foucault genealogijos sampratos. Teigiama, kad genealogija gilinasi į istoriją ne dėl įvykių, mūšių ir karų aprašymo, bet dėl diskursyvių režimų ir praktikų, kurios formuoja mūsų tapatybę. Glaudus pažinimo/tiesos bei galios saitas yra esminis tiek Nietzsche’s, tiek Foucault genealogijai. Foucault dispositive (suprantamumo režimas) yra viena iš esminių sąvokų tiek istoriškumo sampratai, tiek studijuojant pačią istoriją. Nyčiška valios galiai idėja transformuojama į pažinimo tipais grindžiamą ir besiremiančią galios santykių strategijų idėją. Daroma išvada, jog Foucault genealogija redukuoja prasmę į galios santykius. Taip pat teigiama, kad Foucault sampratoje istorija yra pažini ne dėl jos vidinio prasmingumo, bet dėl to, jog žinios ir diskursyvios praktikos, būdamos esminės istorijos vyksmo procesui, yra suvokiamos kaip taktikos ir strategijos.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: genealogija, istorijos filosofija, galia, diskursas.Power, History and Genealogy: Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel FoucaultAndrius Bielskis SummaryThe essay explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Michel Foucault’s accounts of genealogy. It argues that genealogy sees human history not in terms of events, battles and wars (i.e. through empirical facts), but in terms of discursive regimes and practices which form our subjectivity. The link between knowledge/truth and power plays crucial role in both Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s accounts of genealogy. Foucault’s notion of dispositive (the regime of intelligibility) serves as a key concept in his approach to history. The Nietzschean idea of the will to power is transformed into the idea of strategies of relations of forces supporting and supported by types of knowledge. The essay concludes that Foucault’s genealogy reduces meaning to power relations. It argues that in Foucault’s thought human history is intelligible not because of its inner meaning, but because knowledge and discourses, which play a key role in human history, are understood in terms of tactics and strategies.Keywords: genealogy, philosophy of history, power, discourse.
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Broadhead, Lee-Anne, and Sean Howard. "The Research Assessment Exercise." education policy analysis archives 6 (April 19, 1998): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v6n8.1998.
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In this article it is argued that the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)--undertaken by the United Kingdom's Higher Education Funding Councils (HEFC)--is part of a much larger process of assessment in education generally. By taking the RAE as its focus, this article uses a Foucaultian analysis to amplify the nature and practice of disciplinary power in the setting of Higher Education. Foucault's notion of an "integrated system" of control and production, with its routine operation of surveillance and assessment--and its dependence on coercion and consent--is directly applied to the RAE. The impact on research and teaching is discussed. The critical response of academics to the exercise has failed to challenge the process in any fundamental way. it is argued here that this failure is a reflection of the degree to which disciplinary logic is embedded in the academic system.
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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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Ortegel, Moritz. "“Creative city” policy mobilities as transformation of dispositives – arrangements of “networking” in the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg." Geographica Helvetica 72, no. 2 (April 21, 2017): 157–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-157-2017.
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Abstract. Following the calls for context-sensitive policy mobility research, I propose to analyze policy mobilities as transformation of dispositives. Michel Foucault's context-sensitive notion of dispositive stresses the context-specific, heterogeneous relations between linguistic and non-linguistic practices, subjectivities and materialities as well as the influence of power/knowledge and sedimented features in policymaking. These sensitivities are valuable contributions to policy mobility research. I draw on empirical research on creative city policies, which are re-embedded in the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, to illustrate that line of argumentation. I reconstruct and compare related (sub-)dispositives: the mobile creative city policies, the historical and current contexts of the policies' re-embedding. Consequently, I use arrangements of networking as an empirical lens to understand the differing logics that shape the re-embedding of creative city policies in the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg and the mutual transformation of policies and their contexts.
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Kebung, Konrad. "Membaca ‘Kuasa’ Michel Foucault dalam Konteks ‘Kekuasaan’ di Indonesia." MELINTAS 33, no. 1 (July 13, 2018): 34–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26593/mel.v33i1.2953.34-51.
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This article presents Foucault’s ambitious thoughts on various historical events in the past and sees how people faced and reacted to all these events in different eras of thinking, ways of life, cultures and historical settings. He works with past events, yet his objective is to constitute a history of the present. His rich analyses in his works are classified in three main axes, namely the axis of knowledge, of power, and of ethics or subject. The author of this article also presents Foucault’s notion on power as practiced throughout the history of systems of thought, and how this way of thinking can be read into in any political power, or how Foucault’s thinking can be seen as a criticism on various repressive powers practiced everywhere, including in Indonesia.
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Jaquet, Gabriela Menezes. "Foucault e a Insurreição Iraniana como Acontecimento: O Si e os Outros, Do assujeitamento à subjetivação/Foucault and the Iranian Insurrection as Event: The self and others, from subjection to subjectivation." Pensando - Revista de Filosofia 7, no. 14 (January 25, 2017): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.26694/pensando.v7i14.5359.
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O objetivo deste artigo é, de forma geral, discutir a noção de acontecimento enquanto uma das principais categorias para a leitura da obra de Michel Foucault, o que nos permite, a partir de uma determinada operacionalização, compreender todo seu projeto como uma acontecimentalização da história. A fim de especificar este processo, estabelecemos o diagnóstico foucaultiano da Insurreição Iraniana como mote de nossa verificação do acontecimento, em que atentaremos para dois aspectos que convergem no nexo principal do événement: o “poder pastoral” e a “espiritualidade política” conduzindo às novas proposições teóricas sobre a formação do sujeito. Será, assim, a partir do grande eixo da subjetivação que desenvolveremos nossa hipótese de leitura, referente à economia da obra foucaultiana, no que diz respeito ao acento espiritual do poder pastoral e o episódio iraniano como estando já inseridos em um movimento que deveria tentar pensar, continuamente, um sujeito outro. Desta forma, tais temáticas, abarcando a questão de um governo dos outros, carregarão igualmente a necessidade conceitual do governo de si, desenvolvida por Foucault através do “cuidado de si” durante a década de 1980. Para percorrermos este caminho, de uma acontecimentalização do levante no Irã, abordaremos primeiramente o poder pastoral e as contra-condutas no contexto do curso proferido no Collège de France em 1978, Sécurité, territoire, population. Em seguida enfocaremos a noção de “espiritualidade política”, utilizada em sua análise sobre o Irã, a partir de um cruzamento conceitual advindo de estudo pontual de L’Herméneutique du sujet, curso de 1982, a fim de poder explicitar, ao final, como a própria metodologia de uma filosofia do acontecimento procura atingir seu principal alvo, o sujeito, ao pensá-lo enquanto processo, através de um questionamento singular: “como se tornar sujeito sem ser assujeitado?”. Abstract: The aim of this essay is to discuss the notion of event as one of the main categories for reading the work of Michel Foucault. In terms of the way it operates, the event allows us to understand Foucault’s entire project as an eventalization of history. In order to specify this process, we establish Foucault’s diagnosis of the Iranian Insurrection as a verification of the event, in which we attend to two aspects that converge in the main nexus of événement: “pastoral power” and “political spirituality”. Both of these lead to new theoretical propositions on the formation of subject. It is thus from the large axis of subjectivation that we develop our reading hypothesis. With reference to the economy of Foucault’s work, the spiritual tone of pastoral power and the Iranian episode are already inserted in a movement that should attempt to think continuously of an other subject. Such themes, by dealing with the question of a government of others, also bear the conceptual need of the government of self, developed by Foucault through the “care of the self” during the 1980s. To cover the path of an eventalization of the Iranian uprising, we first consider pastoral power and counter-conducts in the framework of the course given at the Collège de France in 1978: Security, Territory, Population. Then we focus on the notion of “political spirituality”, using Foucault’s analysis of Iran, from the conceptual crossing that emerges from the study of the Hermeneutic of the subject course given in 1982. Finally, we seek to explicate how the specific methodology of a philosophy of event aims to reach its main target, the subject, by thinking it as a process by means of a singular question: “how to become a subject without being subjected?”. Keywords: Event; Michel Foucault; Pastoral power; Subjectivation; Contemporary French Philosophy
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Khan, Amara, Syed Attia Bibi, and Amna Aziz. "Subjectification of Women through Patriarchal Ideology in the Subcontinent: An Analysis of Manto's Khol Do." Global Regional Review IV, no. I (March 30, 2019): 516–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-i).55.
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Modern discourse on gender is dictated by the patriarchal ideology. In this new micro-system of power, women are overpowered and subjectified in the hands of men. The patriarchal society of the subcontinent, as depicted by Manto, clearly defines the way oppression of women occurs in the hands of the suppressing ideology. Deploying Foucault's notions of power and knowledge, this study aims to investigate the ways in which women are subjugated to subjectification under the patriarchal setup in the subcontinent prior to the partition. This paper highlights how women's bodies are commodified in an unremitted fashion in the subcontinent and how their bodies' time, place and movement are directed by the "micro-physical" power.
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Cuadro, Mariela. "Sovereign Power, Government and Global Liberalism’s Crisis." Contexto Internacional 43, no. 3 (December 2021): 439–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300001.
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Abstract Abstract: For some time now a leading cause of debate among IR scholars has been the so-called Liberal International Order (LIO) and its assumed crisis. This article pierces this debate from a critical perspective asserting that different conceptions and analytics of power allow diverse questions on and diagnoses of liberalism in the global realm. With this objective, it confronts Ikenberry’s conception of LIO with the Foucauldian notion of liberalism. This is done by identifying the conception of power that underlies each notion of liberalism, assuming the former as performative. This way, it first defines two different conceptions of power: sovereign and governmental. Second, it links Ikenberry’s conception of LIO with the sovereign conception of power and points out the political and analytical effects of this relation, mainly, the hierarchical character of LIO and the consequent desire for a West-led world. Third, it develops Foucault’s conception of liberalism linked to governmental power and establishes some of its political and analytical effects: the importance of a heterarchical notion of power focused on the dimension of subject and subjectivity for the analysis of the present, and the political need to reflect on our practices of freedom.
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Hofmeyr, Benda. "The Power Not to Be (What We Are): The Politics and Ethics of Self-creation in Foucault." Journal of Moral Philosophy 3, no. 2 (2006): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740468106065493.
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AbstractTo some extent, Foucault’s later works on ethics provides an opportunity to go beyond some of the controversies generated by his work of the 1970s. It was thought, for example, that Foucault had overstated the extent to which individuals could be ‘subjected’ to the influence of power, leaving them little room to resist. This paper will consider the ‘politics’ of self-creation. We shall attempt to establish to what extent Foucault’s later notion of self-formation does in fact succeed in countering an over determination by power. In the end, though, it would appear as if Foucault’s turn to ethics amounts to a substitution of ethics, understood as an individualized task, for the political task of collective social transformation. What is at stake is whether or not Foucault’s insistence on individual acts of resistance amounts to more than an empty claim that ethics still somehow has political implications whilst having in fact effectively given up on politics. It will be argued that the subject of the later Foucault’s ethics, the individual, can only be understood as political subjectivity, i.e. that the political potential of individual action is not only ‘added on’ as an adjunct, but that individual action is intrinsically invested with political purport.
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Raoufzadeh, Narges, Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh, and Shiva Zaheri Birgani. "A Foucauldian Reading: Power in Awakening by Kate Chopin." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) : Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (January 29, 2020): 159–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v3i1.731.
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This paper traces Foucault’s notion of power in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. The writers bring into the light, different aspects of a woman’s position in the society of late nineteenth-century America. Paper looks at private and social conditions of women, using Foucault’s ideology of power, and discuss the reactions of Chopin’s protagonist in relation to her actions towards the workings of power in her life. With a close analysis of the novel based on Foucault’s ideology of power, researchers discuss the workings of power in the protagonist’s married and social life, including her efforts to set herself free from this power and her process of resistance analyzed according to Foucault’s theory. The research comes to the conclusion that the impossibility of acting outside power, the possibility of resisting power from within and Foucault’s “Care of the self” as the only way to traverse the power-defined failed of possible actions. Paper shows that, Chopin’s protagonist does not resist patriarchy based on Foucault’s methods and her actions towards power do not lead to any effective ending.
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VALDEZ, INÉS. "Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban." American Political Science Review 110, no. 1 (February 2016): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055415000647.
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This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault's work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of freedom that exceeds liberation and distinguishes between genuine practices of freedom and practices of the self that are unreflective responses to systems of government. I develop and illustrate this conception through an engagement with the recent French ban on full veils in public spaces and the ethnographic literature on European Muslim revival movements. I reconstruct how Muslim women relate to alternative discourses through specific practices of the self. These practices reveal that French Muslim women actively contest discourses of secularism and liberation that construct them as inherently passive and in need of tutelage. The conception I develop sheds light on some shortcomings of Philip Pettit's notion of freedom as nondomination. I argue that the proposed account is useful to, first, criticize the centrality of the opposition between arbitrary and nonarbitrary power in the definition of freedom. Second, I show that the predominant engagement with the external dimension of freedom in Pettit makes it difficult to capture the particular subjective practices that make up freedom and its development in the presence of power and/or attempts at domination.
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Mutch, Alistair. "“Decently and order”: Scotland and Protestant pastoral power." Critical Research on Religion 5, no. 1 (November 3, 2016): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050303216676519.
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Foucault’s conceptualization of “pastoral power” is important in the development and application of the notion of “governmentality” or the regulation of mass populations. However, Foucault’s exploration of pastoral power, especially in the form of confessional practice, owes a good deal to his Roman Catholic heritage. Hints in his work, which were never developed, suggest some aspects of Protestant forms of pastoral power. These hints are taken up to explore one Protestant tradition, that of Scottish Presbyterianism, in detail. Based on the history of the church in the eighteenth century, four aspects of Protestant pastoral power are outlined: examination, accountability, ecclesiology, and organizing as a good in its own right.
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Thierman, Stephen. "Apparatuses of Animality: Foucault Goes to a Slaughterhouse." Foucault Studies, no. 9 (September 1, 2010): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i9.3061.
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The work of Michel Foucault is not often considered in animal ethics discussions, but I believe that many of his insights can be fruitfully extended into this area of philosophical inquiry. In this paper, I present the slaughterhouse as a technology of power that is complicit in the domination and objectification of both human and nonhuman animal subjects. I begin by arguing that Foucault’s notion of an “apparatus” is a useful methodological tool for thinking about the constellation of spaces and discourses in which various bodies (both human and nonhuman) find themselves enmeshed. Next, I outline Foucault’s multifaceted conceptualization of “power,” and I consider whether it makes sense to think of other animals as implicated in “power relations” in the various Foucauldian senses. Finally, I analyze a journalistic account of a contemporary slaughterhouse. Here, I argue that a variety of hierarchies (spatial, racial, species, etc.) dovetail to create an environment in which care and concern are virtually impossible. By coupling a Foucauldian analysis with certain insights developed in the bioethical work of Ralph Acampora, I offer a normative critique of an institution that has pernicious effects on both human and nonhuman animals.
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Beheshti, Robab, and Mahdi Shafieyan. "Foucauldian Docile Body in Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 10 (October 1, 2016): 2052. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0610.23.
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This article presents a Foucauldian reading of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island. Depicting modern medical facilities, the book demonstrates disciplinary system and power manipulation on psychotic patients who are confined to cellular spaces, and are subjugated under medical gaze. Despite the patients’ resistance to the power, they are ultimately expected to be dominated and normalized. The ideas presented in the novel are in line with Foucault’s notion of “docile body”, discussed in his Discipline and Punish, which are considered as the key concepts of the research and are explored within the designated novels. Power as a penetrating force transforms the individual into a docile being which refers to a submissive and dynamic body; surveillance acts as physics of power and holds a constant gaze on the individual in a way that he is subjugated by the invisible observing power; confinement along with cellular distribution turns the individual to an analytical body. This research aims to explore the docilizing elements and achieved level of normalization within the novel of the study; it tries to investigate the extent to which the gaze held on the patients performs a positive result as discussed by Foucault. The study inspects the response of the body to disciplinary techniques and reveals that in Lehane’s novel, the effect of power manipulation is displayed as possibly counter-productive and repressive in docilizing the body which is contradictory to Foucault’s positive view of power.
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Joy, Irine Maria. "Madness in the Society: Analysis of ‘One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (November 28, 2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10132.
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Sanity is what society projects it to be, and which isn't true always. Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest stands against the institutionalised mental illness in hospitals. The novel can be analysed as a metaphor of nineteenth century America when asylums were a place where non-conformists of the society are sent to. Foucault's Madness and Civilization discusses these notions clearly along with the interconnected themes of power, insanity and rebellion. The patients in the asylum may seem insane, but the idea of insanity is often misinterpreted and misrepresented by the society Madness is connected to correction rather than sickness. Therefore, the techniques used to heal the illness are far more unethical. This paper is an observation of insanity or madness in the society. It also unravels the concept of ‘unreason’ by Foucault in Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The social and historic reading of the whole text explores Anti-Conformism (Beat Generation) and Counter Culture Movement (Hippie-culture) in America i.e, Individual v/s Society.
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Milani, Tommaso M. "At the intersection between power and knowledge." Journal of Language and Politics 8, no. 2 (September 9, 2009): 287–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.8.2.06mil.
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The aim of this article is to analyse a policy document in which the Swedish Liberal Party attempts to substantiate the proposal to introduce a Swedish language test for naturalisation by referring to academic production. Taking this specific text as a case in point, the article draws upon Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s notion of governmentality to show how the rationalisation and legitimation of a particular political proposal is inextricably related to processes of knowledge production. Governmentality will also allow us to understand that language requirements for citizenship are a tangible manifestation of an advanced liberal political rationality in late modernity.
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Bijnen, Emma van. "Dialogical power negotiations in conflict mediation." Dialogue in institutional settings 9, no. 1 (July 5, 2019): 84–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.00033.bij.
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Abstract In this study, mediator – party power dynamics in workplace disputes mediation dialogues are examined. Adopting Gramsci’s concept of hegemony (e.g. 2005) and Foucault′s notion that power is not fixed in dialogues, but constantly negotiated by participants (e.g. Foucault 1980), the analyses show that the power dynamics shift in the mediation setting when mediators subordinate dominant parties and enforce their own formalized power as procedural guides to design (Aakhus 2003, 2007) a favorable context for conflict resolution. When their procedural power is threatened, mediators may use specific devices in their interventions that correlate with the four devices – interruption, enforcing explicitness, topic control, and formulation – Fairclough (1989, 135–137) states can be used by dominant participants to control weaker parties in dialogues.
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Boon, Andrew, and Avis Whyte. "Lawyer disciplinary processes: an empirical study of solicitors’ misconduct cases in England and Wales in 2015." Legal Studies 39, no. 3 (May 3, 2019): 455–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lst.2018.45.
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AbstractThe Legal Services Act 2007 effected major changes in the disciplinary system for solicitors in England and Wales. Both the practice regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and a disciplinary body, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, were reconstituted as independent bodies and given new powers. Our concern is the impact of the Act on the disciplinary system for solicitors. Examination of this issue involves consideration of changes to regulatory institutions and the mechanics of practice regulation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, empirical evidence drawn from disciplinary cases handled by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2015 is used to explore potentially different conceptions of discipline informing the work of the regulatory institutions. The conclusion considers the implications of our findings for the future of the professional disciplinary system.
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Burkitt, Ian. "Sexuality and Gender Identity: From a Discursive to a Relational Analysis." Sociological Review 46, no. 3 (August 1998): 483–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00128.
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This paper concentrates on the recent controversy over the division between sex and gender and the troubling of the binary distinctions between gender identities and sexualities, such as man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual. While supporting the troubling of such categories, I argue against the approach of Judith Butler which claims that these dualities are primarily discursive constructions that can be regarded as fictions. Instead, I trace the emergence of such categories to changing forms of power relations in a more sociological reading of Foucault's conceptualization of power, and argue that the social formation of identity has to be understood as emergent within socio-historical relations. I then consider what implications this has for a politics based in notions of identity centred on questions of sexuality and gender.
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Brighenti, Andrea Mubi. "Power, subtraction and social transformation: Canetti and Foucault on the notion of resistance." Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 12, no. 1 (March 25, 2011): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2011.549331.
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Leao, Roberta G., Reninni Taquini, and Kyria R. Finardi. "The Role of Internet/YouTube in the Socialization/Popularization of Science in Brazil." Education and Linguistics Research 5, no. 2 (November 27, 2019): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/elr.v5i2.15935.
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The study aims to analyze how science is socialized and popularized through the internet, more specifically, through the YouTube (YT) platform in Brazil. The study gives a brief presentation of the current socio-historical context in Brazil before presenting the theoretical framework that is based mainly on Michel Foucault's notion of knowledge and power, and its relations with the forms of control in society and on Theodor Adorno's view of mass culture. In order to analyze YouTube's role in the socialization/popularization of science, sixteen YT channels were analyzed in the first semester of 2019. The method used is mixed (Dörnyei, 2007) using a predominantly quantitative approach to measure projection in the internet of the channels analyzed. Qualitative analysis focuses on issues of content and source in the videos analyzed. In general, the analysis of the results suggests that STEM areas have a higher prevalence in the description of the videos. The study concludes with the suggestion that the platform improves the search engine so that users can filter more specific areas of knowledge, thus expanding the potential of the internet and this site in the dissemination and popularization of modern science.
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Knapp, A. Bernard, and Peter van Dommelen. "Past Practices: Rethinking Individuals and Agents in Archaeology." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18, no. 1 (February 2008): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774308000024.
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Archaeologists who seek to examine people's roles in past societies have long assumed, consciously or unconsciously, the existence of individuals. In this study, we explore various concepts and dimensions of ‘the individual’, both ethnographic and archaeological. We show that many protagonists in the debate over the existence of ‘individuals’ in prehistory use the same ethnographic examples to argue their positions. These positions range from the claim that any suggestion of individuals prior to 500 years ago simply projects a construct of western modernity onto the past, to the view that individual identities are culturally specific social constructs, both past and present. Like most contributors to the debate, we too are sceptical of an unchanging humanity in the past, but we feel that thinking on the topic has become somewhat inflexible. As a counterpoint to this debate, therefore, we discuss Bourdieu's concept of habitus in association with Foucault's notion of power. We conclude that experiencing oneself as a living individual is part of human nature, and that archaeologists should reconsider the individual's social, spatial and ideological importance, as well as the existence of individual, embodied lives in prehistoric as well as historical contexts.
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Pratt, Scott L. "American Power: Mary Parker Follett and Michel Foucault." Foucault Studies, no. 11 (February 1, 2011): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i11.3207.
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Classical pragmatism, despite its recognized concern for questions of freedom and democracy, has little to say directly about questions of power. Some commentators have found Dewey’s notion of habit to be a resource for taking up issues of power while others have argued that pragmatism does not provide a sufficiently critical tool to challenge systematic oppression. Still others have proposed to shore up pragmatism by using resources found in post-structuralism, particularly in the work of Foucault. This paper begins with this suggestion, but argues that while Foucault offers a useful starting point his conception of power fails—at least in an American context characterized by the experience of pluralism. I then argue that the pragmatist tradition, through the work of Mary P. Follett (1868-1933) has the theoretical resources to generate a conception of power that begins with the experience of pluralism.
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Tucker, Ian. "Bio-Somatic-Power." Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 13, no. 1 (August 23, 2011): 82–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v13i1.5453.
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Biopower is a prominent force in mental health, with psychiatry having a strong influential grasp across the areas of definition of mental disorders, diagnosis, care, treatment, and legislation. One area that impacts upon the everyday lives of community mental health service users is treatment, largely dominated by medication. This paper will explore biopower in relation to the practices and management of mental health service users’ medication regimens. Michel Foucault’s insistence in his later work that power is the product of bodily forces will be drawn upon in highlighting the importance of undertaking analysis of medication regimens. Taking examples from a project focused on service user experience, the concept of ‘somatic enactment’ is suggested as a means through which to open up biopower to the localised concerns of service users with regard to the issue of managing one’s body on a day to day basis, as affected by medication. In doing so, the author seeks to move towards a notion of biopower that does not only work on a ‘top down’ manner, and in which processes of embodied subjectification can be illuminated, without recourse to a straightforward power-resistance framework.
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Diab, Ahmed, and Abdelmoneim Bahyeldin Mohamed Metwally. "The Biopolitics of Transformation to ERM Technologies." International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management 12, no. 4 (October 2021): 31–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcrmm.2021100103.
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How risk management technologies are implemented in developing countries is largely under-researched. Using a perspective on bio-politics, this paper dissects how an infusion of risk management technologies permeates as a powerful managerial tool in governing subordinates. The notions of power/knowledge relations, disciplinary power, and governmentality enabled the authors to rehearse the Foucault's biopolitics perspective in an analysis of risk-based rationalities and risk management technologies. Qualitative case study research methods guided them to gather empirical evidence from a privately owned, Egyptian insurance firm. They found that risk management technologies are conjoined with institutional and discursive ramifications in a developing country where burgeoning neoliberal economic remedies are being diffused and adopted. Further, risk management technologies go hand in hand with this ensuing neoliberal agenda, making it inescapable for organisational managers in such a developing country to adopt these technologies for their survival and sustainability.
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Awan, Nishat. "Words and objects in transposing desire and making space." Architectural Research Quarterly 12, no. 3-4 (December 2008): 263–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135913550800119x.
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In this article I will explore the relationship between space, language and objects and interrogate the role of language as a signifier for the transformation of space through cultural difference. My work is informed by the context and the methods of postcolonialism and specifically the notion of hybridity. If the hybridity of a postcolonial identity is acknowledged, then the space where these identities are negotiated could also be seen as sharing qualities of overlap and mixing. Influenced by psychoanalytic theories of the self and its relation to others, postcolonial theory has used strategies of ‘mimicry’ and ‘hybridity’ as motifs to provide a vocabulary that shifts colonial relations out of the dialectic of oppressor and oppressed. But following Lefebvre's idea that all space is social space, and Foucault's spatialisation of power, the move from the historic preoccupation with time to a spatialisation of the processes of knowledge production, allows postcolonial thinking to go beyond the complicities of identity politics, which has been one of the major criticisms of this mode of thought. As an architect, this opens up certain possibilities of interrogating postcolonial subjectivity through the spaces that are occupied and used by those who are implicated within it. This paper will focus on one such space: a park in East London.
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Pradeep, Chaitanya. "Political Impacts of Tourism: A Critical Analysis of Literature." Atna Journal of Tourism Studies 15, no. 1 (January 17, 2021): 55–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.12727/ajts.23.5.
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Tourism and politics are inexorably allied. There exists adequate literature on the nexus between political ideologies and public institutions yet, there is hardly any explicit attention paid to the field of tourism research. It may perhaps due to the impression that ‘politics is all about power.’ In fact, Gramscian’ s notion of ‘power-over’ in the context of preserving cultural hegemony confines the prospects of political discourse to ‘power-itself’. This notion was contested through a poststructuralist thought, ‘power-to’, proposed by Michel Foucault. Thus, the present paper extends the poststructuralist thought by exploring the potential areas in politics that shape the outlook of the tourism industry through a critical analysis of literature. The study argues that the associated political effects are critical to the field of tourism at the same time the tourism industry is also a potential means to promote and showcase the political ideology.
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Jativa, Tomasz. "Form and Power On the Disciplinary Coding of National Identity in “Pamiętnik Stefana Czarnieckiego” by Witold Gombrowicz." Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze, no. 9 (April 1, 2021): 253–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.09.13.
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The aim of this article is to analyse Witold Gombrowicz’s short story entitled “Pamiętnik Stefana Czarnieckiego” in the context of the convergence between the writer’s worldview and the philosophy of Michel Foucault. Nietzschean motifs inspired both authors to formulate a similar constructivist anthropology and a similar criticism of the concept of discipline. The themes of form and creating a human being by a human being – central to Gombrowicz’s writing – correspond to Foucault’s notion of the production of the subject. In such a perspective, “Pamiętnik Stefana Czarnieckiego” can be read as a record of the experience of an individual subjected to social practices of disciplinary embarrassment, aimed at producing a subject defined by nationality and heteronormativity, as well as the experience of rebellion against an imposed identity. Such a reading reveals the political stakes of the literary output by the author of Ferdydurke: expressed in the deconstruction of authoritarian forms of empowerment and in the pursuit to replace them with forms of subjectification based on irony, fluidity and distance.
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Kappeler, Florian. "Die Ordnung des Wissens." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 38, no. 151 (June 1, 2008): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v38i151.473.
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In its first part, the article deals with Michel Foucaults "discourse analysis", as developed in his "Archaeology of knowledge". The second part considers the concept of discourse in relation to Foucaults "analytic of power" and to a critical theory of society inspired by Karl Marx, especially Louis Althussers notion of ideology. Thus, on the one hand, some propositions for a methodology of discourse analysis are being made, and, on the other hand, its position within a project of critical social theory is discussed.
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Duoblienė, Lilija. "FOUCAULT IDĖJŲ SKLAIDA ŠVIETIME: DISCIPLINUOJANČIOS MOKYKLOS DEMASKAVIMAS." Problemos 75 (January 1, 2009): 44–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2009.0.1977.
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Straipsnyje plėtojama Michelio Foucault idėja apie visuomenės kontrolę ir drausminimą, objektu pasirenkant vieną socialinio gyvenimo sritį – švietimą. Remiantis esminėmis Foucault teorijos sąvokomis: drausminimas, kontrolė, diskurso konstravimas ir galių atpažinimas, praktikų režimas ir valdysena, straipsnyje siekiama atskleisti švietime ir ypač mokyklose vis giliau įsivyraujančias ritualines praktikas, eliminuojančias mokyklų bendruomenių sąmoningumą, kritiškumą, refleksiją. Bandoma pagrįsti, kad instrukcijomis suvaržytos mokyklos ir viena kryptimi mąstančio mokinio ugdymo prielaidos slypi pačioje švietimo sistemoje, orientuotoje į kontrolę ir socialinę reprodukciją. Remiantis postmoderniajai ugdymo filosofijai bei kritinei pedagogikai atstovaujančiais švietimo teoretikais – R. Edwardsu, R. Usheriu,M. Apple’u, P. McLarenu, H. Giroux, T.S. Popkewitzu ir kitais, plėtojusiais Foucault idėjas, kritikuojami mokyklos liberalizavimas, marketizavimas ir asmens autonomijos simuliacija per mokyklos ir asmens savivaldos praktikas. Kritikuojamas ir konservatyviosios politikos bandymas išsaugoti tradicines vertybes, kurios padėtų švietimo sistemoje ir visuomenėje užtikrinti status quo.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: panoptikumas, švietimas, mokinių kontrolė, drausminimas, diskursas, galia, autonomija.The Development of Foucault’s Ideas in Education: Unmasking of Disciplining SchoolLilija Duoblienė SummaryThe article deals with the idea of education, which is understood as a system used for social control and social reproduction. This notion is based on the philosophy of M. Foucault and his explanation of Bentham’s Panopticon. The main concepts of Foucault’s theory – punishment, control, power, governmentality, construction of knowledge, and discourse – are used to define the education instruments for disciplining students. Foucault’s idea of a social system helps to perceive education policies and reforms as the practices that lead students and teachers to a one-way thinking and unreflected ritual behavior. This disciplining contradicts to the declarations of education policy-makers who emphasize the importance of developing a new democratic and self-governing school as well as promoting personal autonomy. The instruments of control are investigated from the educational philosophy perspective, mostly in the tradition of critical pedagogy. Edwards, Usher, Apple, McLaren, Giroux, Burbules, Torres, Popkewitz, etc. – the authors who rethink the problems of education in the framework of Foucault’s philosophy – are also presented in this article. Their works are used as a basis for criticizing the idea of liberalization and marketization of schools. The article criticizes both the autonomy simulation process and the protection of the traditional moral values used by conservative forces to ensure the status quo at school.Keywords: panoptikon, education, student control, disciplining, discourse, power, autonomy.