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Kardas, Tuncay. "Security governmentality in Turkey." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/33103cec-8a6b-4f80-8808-a6ab752b0be2.
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The thesis asks a central question: what is the nature of the relationship between state security and domestic politics in contemporary Turkey? It aims to show that although the pendulum of Turkish politics has swung back and forth between democratic elections and military interventions, in the last decade a new set of historically conditioned discourses and practices of state security have fused the political and military realms to produce a peculiar regime which I call security govemmentality. Understanding the traits of Turkish security governmentality is the task of the thesis. It adopts a genealogical approach. The subject-matter analyzes both the historical-political conditions within which security governmentality emerged as a dominant practice of rule and the prospects of its dissolution. Indeed, the dissolution of security governmentality gained an air of expectancy particularly after 1999 when Turkey was granted an 'official candidacy' and started to adapt the EU democratic membership conditionality. Within this framework, the thesis explores the peculiar entanglement between security and politics in Turkey, which has produced an uneven distribution of power between the military and the society, and examines the challenges of the EU membership reform process to Turkey's security governmentality.
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MARTINS, LUIZ ALBERTO MOREIRA. "NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY, RISK AND SUBJECTIFICATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21886@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Partindo da perspectiva da governamentalidade, a qual concebe as relações de poder como condução de condutas, buscamos investigar a racionalidade governamental neoliberal e seus mecanismos de governo, em especial o dispositivo do risco e suas tecnologias. Partimos do pressuposto de que a importância e eficácia desse dispositivo de poder se deve a afinidade entre a racionalidade econômica neoliberal e a racionalidade calculadora do risco. Investigamos também a nova forma subjetiva que foi produzida pelo neoliberalismo por meio de suas políticas e práticas – o capital humano, que define e da forma ao sujeito neoliberal, o empresário de si. Indicamos ainda, de modo muito geral algumas possibilidades de resistência a racionalidade e ao governo neoliberal.
Starting from the governmentality perspective, which conceives power relations as the conduct of conduct, we have tried to investigate the neoliberal governmental rationality and their techniques of government, specially the risk apparatus and their technologies. We started from the assumption that the importance and effectiveness of this apparatus is due to the affinity between the economical neoliberal rationality and the calculative risk rationality. In this thesis we also investigate the new subjective form, which was produced by neoliberalism through their politics and practices – the human capital, which defines and shapes the neoliberal subject, an entrepreneur of himself. Furthermore, we have pointed out in a much general manner some possibilities of resistance to the neoliberals rationalities and government.
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Hayles, Catherine. "Governmentality and sport in later life /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19370.pdf.
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Garrity, Zoë. "Old age, caring policies and governmentality." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47054/.
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Through the theoretical lens of Foucault's archaeological method, this thesis undertakes a discourse analysis to examine how old age and ageing are strategically positioned as forms of governmentality in New Labour social care policy documents. It is argued that these discourses are not directed purely at the older generation, but at everyone, at all stages of life, encompassing all aspects of everyday living. Old age thus becomes a strategy of governing the population through individual everyday lives. This hints at the way ageing is prefigured, anticipated and lived in advance. An analytical method is developed by weaving together Foucault's notions of archaeology and governmentality; the latter is utilised both as an analytical perspective and to provide an understanding of how people primarily act and interact in contemporary Western societies. This analytical perspective is initially applied to an exploration of how the form and function of social policy enable ordinary practices of life to become targets of political government, making both possible and desirable the government of everyday living: governing how we ought to live in every aspect of life from work and finances to health, to personal relationships and leisure activities. The thesis progresses to explore this in more detail through a practical application of governmentality and focused discourse analysis of eight New Labour social care policy texts. The aim of the analysis is to explore what subjectivities and forms of life are possible within these discourses and therefore what these policies actually do, as distinguished from what they claim to be doing. It is argued that the discourses that emerge in these policies act to limit and subjectify, by attempting to contain and stabilise the multitude of possibilities for practices of living. By ostensibly aiming to create social inclusion the policies make possible vast areas of exclusion that become prime spaces of government. Thus many ways of living, ageing, and being old become untenable due to their inherent contradiction with the social values and rationalities upon which these discourses are based. Whilst governmentality analyses have been brought to many other policy areas, this thesis makes an original contribution by: developing a governmental analysis of social policy as a form of biopolitics; by applying this analysis to the social care field; and by using policy discourses of old age and ageing to draw out significant aspects of a governmental society. In particular it explores the dispersion of many traditional boundaries, leading to the rearrangement of relations, responsibilities and subjectivities.
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Mackenzie, Ewan McLaren. "Governmentality in a UK local authority." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2945.
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The UK public sector has been subject to a succession of economic and market reforms since the early 1980s through the introduction of public choice philosophies and with the adoption of strategic business practices. This study undertakes an ethnographic mode of inquiry to investigate a period of organisational transformation in a UK local authority following the UK coalition government’s emergency budget and subsequent spending review in 2010. The focus is upon project management, an increasingly significant form of organisational knowledge and practice in the empirical context of this study and in regard to the economic management of the UK public sector more generally. Drawing from empirical material gathered over a two year period involving senior managers, freelance consultants and local government workers, the purpose is to examine project management as a technology of power in this context. The thesis draws on work building on Michel Foucault’s later theoretical insights on ‘government’ and ‘governmentality’. Within this theoretical framework project management and its associated rationalities are problematised as those which are intended to facilitate economic government ‘at a distance’. This thesis demonstrates that project management is playing a pivotal role in determining new configurations of ‘freedom’ and accountability in the context at hand. By subtly aligning personal projects with more centralised political ambitions, project management depoliticises strategic reforms by extending the effects of managerialism into new areas. Through exploring the discursive strategies of participants both in conversation and through the enactment of their work, the thesis argues that project management encourages modes of ‘personalised government’ and constitutes both freelance consultants and public servants as upholders of their own demarcated and individualised interests. Nevertheless, at the same time project management creates spaces of discretion from within which practices of resistance emerge. In these instances it provides the means by which local government workers seek to protect themselves and their departments from further budget and staff cuts by becoming ‘empowered’ with devolved managerial and budgetary responsibility. In this sense power is seen to produce, albeit at times ambivalently, new identities and positive experiences while simultaneously constraining other identities and ‘freedoms’ in this context. This thesis advances a ‘Foucauldian’ perspective on project management and seeks to assess the costs involved in a particular technology of power in the context of the UK public sector. It contributes to ‘Foucauldianism’ in organisation and management studies by demonstrating the relevance of studies of governmentality to situated organisational analysis. The study also shows that the perspective of governmentality can provide a platform from which agency and resistance can be adequately theorised from a broadly ‘Foucauldian’ perspective. A contribution is also made to studies of governmentality by going beyond the ‘programmer’s perspective’ in order to address ‘real agents’ of government amidst contested social relations.
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Vörlund, Rylenius Tomas. "Governmentality in the battle against climate change : Governmentality regimes in the Global North and the Global South." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43589.
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Climate change is the worst long-term security issue humans has ever faced. The discourse around the problems and solutions connected to it are predominantly coming from the Global North. On the other hand, it is the Global South who are experiencing the impacts of a changing climate, in the form of floods, droughts, heatwaves, and lack of food, water, and energy. This asymmetrical relationship has rendered the Global South the vulnerable subjects in the current governmentality regime of climate change. Through a governmental lens, this paper analyses the similarities and differences in how climate change as a security and IR issue is problematized, and especially what solutions are seen as viable, across and between the North-South divide. This understudied relationship and its implications, is in this paper exposed and tackled. It shows that the Global North are slowly shifting the responsibility of coping with climate change away from the large GHG emitters, and on to the individuals in the Global South that are worst affected by the consequences of a changing climate. The recently updated NDCs within the Paris agreement supports this view and make up a key part of this paper.
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Rishi, Pooja. "Teaching women empowerment governmentality in postcolonial India /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 333 p, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1993336281&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2009.Principal faculty advisors: Daniel M. Green and Claire Rasmussen, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations. Includes bibliographical references.
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Bill, Amanda Elizabeth. "Creative girls: fashion design education and governmentality." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/4234.
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This thesis is concerned with creativity as an object of educational governance and a category of subjective identification. It studies a ‘creativity explosion’ in higher education in New Zealand, focusing on how fashion design students are being mobilized as subjects of creativity through ‘joined up’ modes of governance and technologies of educational choice. Using a poststructural ethnographic ‘methodology’ I explain how, from the late 1990s, models of educational governance began to appear dysfunctional and unable to deliver the attributes and capacities expected of citizens in a knowledge economy. I argue that creativity gained significance as a result of new ways of ‘thinking culture and economy together’. Neoliberal rhetorics representing creativity as flexible human capital and a generic, transferable skill needed by workers in the new economy, were articulated with liberal humanist notions about creativity, which are commonly understood and performed through the social categories of art. All kinds of individual and institutional actors took advantage of these shifting opportunity structures to position themselves with ‘creative’ identities. Within various cultural organisations, including universities, moves to strengthen a liberal agenda and retain creativity as a form of ‘arts knowledge’ with high cultural capital, rubbed up against counter-hegemonic strategies to enlist and develop more universal concepts about creativity as a collaborative endeavour, vital to new forms of capitalist enterprise. By historicising the context in which a new ‘normative doctrine’ of creativity has emerged, and by treating its theorisation as culturally performative, I develop the position that fashion design graduates, as ‘creative girls’, are highly productive performers in the new categories of cultural economy. However I argue that the creative girl occupies a subject position fitted to after-neoliberalised social and economic arrangements, not because she is shaped by neoliberal ideologies, but because she is made up by techniques and tactics of an ‘after-neoliberal’ governmentality. This demonstrates the mutual constitution of ‘creative economy’ and ‘creative persons’ and underlines the fact that despite after-neoliberal ambitions for managing education, there can be no simple cause and effect relation between higher education and economic performance.
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Fejes, Andreas. "Constructing the adult learner : a governmentality analysis." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Department of Behavioural Sciences, Linköping University, 2006. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2006/ibv106s.pdf.
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Nichols, Alan W. "On Foucault and the genealogy of governmentality." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4818.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 26, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lee, Theng-Boon Terence. "Politics, governmentality & cultural regulation in Singapore /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl4771.pdf.
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Öjehag-Pettersson, Andreas. "Space Craft : Globalization and Governmentality in Regional Development." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35786.
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This thesis explores two related purposes. First, it theoretically investigates how the broad literature on globalization is nested in debates concerning the nature of concepts such as space and territory. When doing so, it suggests that studies of globalization can be advanced by escaping territorialist understandings where the nation state is reproduced as a natural arena appropriate for studying all aspects of ‘the social’. The theoretical part of the thesis is used as a basis for articulating a framework for empirical studies that rest upon a conceptual grammar fashioned through a combination of so called assemblage thinking and governmentality analysis. This framework is then put to work as the second, empirical, purpose of the thesis is pursued. More precisely this means that the governance of Swedish regional development is analyzed as an assemblage of discourses, practices and subjects where (re)production of globalization occurs. The (re)production of globalization is studied in three interrelated case studies, all based on a corpus of 81 documents pertaining to the governance of Swedish regional development. By paying attention to how power operates in terms of political rationalities, governmental technologies and the production of social actors, the thesis shows how notions of a perpetual and omnipresent global competition marks the assemblage with particularly salient modes of rationale. Specifically, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity are represented as the primary means for becoming competitive in the age of globalization, and it is shown here how this have inclusionary and exclusionary effects in terms of desired social actors throughout Swedish regions. The thesis then ends with a concluding chapter where the current regimes of regional development are identified as complex forms of neoliberal rule with far reaching effects for democratic principles and practices.In an age often understood as globalized, questions of space and territory are pushed to the forefront of political rule. This thesis explores how contemporary regimes of governing are not only practices of ‘state craft’, but also ‘space craft’ as power operates in relation to perpetual and encompassing notions of global competition among states, regions and subjects. In the thesis a conceptual grammar based on so called assemblage thinking and governmentality studies is put forward in order to investigate how globalization is articulated as a problem for governing regional development in Sweden. It is shown how this is nested in specific political rationalities and governmental technologies that emerge in attempts to produce competitiveness. By approaching the governance of regional development as an assemblage, a vibrant junction of discourses, practices and subjects, the thesis shows how political analysis can rid it self from notions of methodological nationalism, or in other words, a reification of the nation-state as the most appropriate scale for the study of social relations. When doing so it also highlights how complex forms of neoliberal rule lies at the heart of regional development, posing challenges for democratic principles and practices throughout the world.
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Doherty, Robert Anthony. "New Labour : governmentality, social exclusion and education policy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2667/.
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This thesis critically explores the broad relationship between New Labour’s adoption of social exclusion as a policy concept and the outworking of this commitment within instances of policy directed at compulsory education. It presents and deploys Foucault’s idea of governmentality as a perspective from which to undertake critical policy analysis. It considers approaches to policy analysis and posits a layered model that looks to explicate levels and forms of power within the policy system; including a concern to integrate the place and function of policy texts. An account of the main dimensions of New Labour’s Third Way politics is developed, together with a broad account of New Labour’s attempts to govern compulsory education. Critical Discourse Analysis is applied to interpret and explain two texts posited as capturing a particular historical moment in New Labour’s adoption and commitment to a recognisable conceptualisation of social exclusion. A governmentality perspective is employed to analyse policy around social exclusion within the Third Way politics of New Labour following 1997. This analysis has a particular focus on how this social exclusion dimension was accommodated within the broader schematic of Third Way governmentality and how it interacted with and emerged within policy around compulsory education in the early years of New Labour. The analysis concludes that the social exclusion dimension of New Labour’s policy ambitions was present, but sublimated within the conflicted policy climate of compulsory education arising from New Labour’s distinctive governmentality.
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Dilley, Luke Tobias Martin. "Governing pro-environmental behaviour change : a governmentality approach." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1538.
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Academics and policy makers alike have shown an increasing interest in the concept of ‘pro-environmental behaviour’. Central to this concept is the understanding that tackling environmental problems will necessitate behaviour change by individuals. Much research to date has sought to understand how attempts to encourage people to change their behaviour can be made to work more effectively. This research takes a different approach. Drawing upon Foucault’s work on ‘governmentality’, this research examines pro-environmental behaviour change as a practice of government. The research draws on an ethnographic study of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Sustainable Behaviours Unit (SBU). It examines proenvironmental behaviour change as a particular problem, object and end of government. It is argued that the SBU hopes to govern the way we ‘choose to behave’ by acting on the psychic ‘stuff’ thought to drive and inhibit various forms of behaviour. The thesis examines the ways in which behaviour is sought to be governed ‘at a distance’ by working through ‘community’ and the ‘Third Sector’. The thesis also analyses how behaviour change is mobilised at the local level by exploring a particular green communities initiative – Wenfield Energy Saving Together (WERG). It is argued that the discourse and practice of behaviour change is modified and limited as it is inserted into a particular context and set of social relations. The themes of modification and limitation are explored in more depth in the final section of the thesis. It is argued that attempts to govern are met with resistance, contestation and strategic counter moves. It is suggested that rather than being a block to the exercise of government, such ‘counter conduct’ triggers processes of governmental reform. Finally, despite some evident difficulties in fostering pro-environmental behaviour; it is contended that, as a form of government, behaviour change may become less of a policy experiment and instead a more stable strategy of the state.
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Stroo, Sara. "The Virtual Deputy: Digital Surveillance and Neoliberal Governmentality." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13316.
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This thesis interrogates the website BlueServo.net through a neoliberal framework with a focus on surveillance theory. BlueServo is a site that registers users as "Virtual Deputies" and allows them to file reports with U.S. Border Patrol on activity observed through camera feeds trained on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Employing textual analysis of the site and its attendant Facebook page, four thematic categories emerge for analysis: Labor, Entertainment, State, and Social Sorting. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the site in relation to reality TV and video game culture and the future of increasingly sophisticated and widely accessible digital surveillance as applied to social minorities.
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Shen, Juming. "Open educational resources in China : a governmentality analysis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61407/1/Juming_Shen_Thesis.pdf.
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Using a sociological approach, this study examines China’s reform of open educational resources (OER), which has prompted significant changes to the nation’s higher education sector. Through an analysis of the policy processes that have driven the reform, this study demonstrates that the reform has involved and brought significant changes to its participants as resource administrators, providers, and receivers. By using governmentality as a poststructuralist analytical framework, this study shows the particular ways in which the reform process has been governed and the ways in which the governing practices have changed the conduct of higher education. The study reveals the power relations exercised through the reform and offers a critique of China’s higher education sector.
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Sokhi-Bulley, Bal. "Governmentality, rights and EU legal scholarship : a Foucauldian analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11411/.
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The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union came into being on 1 March 2007 and represents a new institution for human rights protection in the EU. This thesis undertakes a critical analysis of the FRA from a governmentality perspective. Governmentality refers to a particular critical standpoint, inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, which is concerned with power relations as processes of government. The features of the FRA, its structure and functions, are framed using "governance talk". The particular features which this thesis is interested in analysing are: the multiplicity of actors which make up the network structure of the Agency, their classification as experts, and the collection of information and data as statistics. The thesis demonstrates that these features, conceptualised as governance in institutional discourse, are actually features of governmentality. I therefore suggest that the rights discourse of the FRA is a discourse of governmentality. Moreover, I show how governmentality necessarily involves self-government: the actors and experts in the FRA's rights discourse govern themselves. This has significant implications for rights discourse: it reveals processes of governing (through) rights. On the one hand, we witness processes of the government of rights through experts and statistics. On the other, we are alerted to government in the name of rights. The thesis therefore intervenes within the EU's rights and governance discourses: it exposes the relations of power (as governmentality) that conventional "governance talk" tries to hide. It highlights the elusive novelty of theorising, and of critique, in EU legal scholarship on rights. By presenting a new perspective on the rights discourse of the FRA using governmentality, this thesis seeks to contribute to EU legal scholarship on rights, filling a glaring and significant gap in the literature.
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Weidner, Jason R. "Globalizing Governmentality: Sites of Neoliberal Assemblage in the Americas." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/258.
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This dissertation analyzes processes of globalization, through a critical examination of the dynamics of neoliberalism in the Americas. It employs and also develops a Foucauldian governmentality analytical framework, demonstrating how such a framework contributes to our understanding of world politics. This dissertation also develops the concept of a liberal political imaginary—consisting of the market, society, and the state—and utilizes this as an analytical framework for understanding the globalization of neoliberal forms of governance. The research suggests that discourses and practices of globalization, global civil society, and global governance represent a fundamental transformation in the way that contemporary social and political reality is understood, and that this has significant consequences for the kinds of political practices and relations that are possible. Moreover, the research suggests the globalization of a neoliberal form of competitive subjectivity that can be applied to a broad range of actors—from individuals to nation-states and international organizations—is reshaping contemporary world politics. The dissertation concludes by suggesting how Foucauldian IR can move forward by incorporating studies of contemporary transformations in capitalism into their analyses.
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Macdonald, Robert. "Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11693.
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Includes bibliographical references.This thesis carries out an interdisciplinary textual analysis of the legal documents (primarily contracts and court documents) used to negotiate and fix the terms of the statutory land restitution process in District Six, Cape Town, during the period from 1996 to 2012. Utilizing French philosopher Michel Foucault's theorisation of 'discourse' and 'governmentality', it traces the interweaving of restitution's legislative concepts with heterogeneous political and cultural discourses emanating from District Six's unique history. It is argued that the hybridised configurations of discourse generated by this encounter serve as new instruments of power in the space of this restitution project, lending themselves to a range unintended and sometimes paradoxical material outcomes.
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Sjögren, Anders. "Governmentality and the Swedish Approach on HIV/AIDS-prevention." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-153906.
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Wiebel, Jon Christopher. "Beyond the border: on rhetoric, U.S. immigration, and governmentality." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/906.
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The focus of this project is to consider U.S. immigration policy as a critical domain in the political management of populations in advanced liberal states. Rather than seeking to understand how discourses over U.S. immigration policy function to construct identity (national, ethnic, and/or immigrant), this project seeks to understand how debates over U.S. immigration policy function to shape, manage, and direct the conduct of migrants, immigrants, and citizens. The project avoids the emphasis in much of the extant scholarship on U.S. immigration policy on the question of identity in favor of an ethos of investigation indebted to Foucault's concept of governmentality.
Studies of governmentality eschew grand theories or unitary conceptions of the state in favor of empirical studies of techniques, programs, strategies and technologies that seek to guide, shape, and direct the conduct of others. While much of the interest of governmentality studies centers on mundane mechanisms that shape conduct, I argue that debates over immigration policy function as critical sites where the state is articulated into activities of government. The state, therefore, is not conceptualized as a source of power to be smashed. As such, policy debates are not mere deliberations by politicians and experts about the merits of particular courses of action; they are sites at which populations are made visible and particular mechanisms for shaping conduct are elevated.
As such, the project attends to policy discussions featured as part of an overall strategic shift in U.S. immigration policy from apprehension to deterrence which began in the early 1990s. The new strategy sought to prevent migrants from entering the U.S. rather than apprehending them once they were here. Analyzing congressional hearings and floor debates, this project argues that discussions of immigration control policies (ranging from the enhanced border policing initiatives, to measures aimed at eliminating the employment and social services magnets, to official English legislation), function as part of a complex of programs, techniques, procedures through which authorities embody and give effect to particular ways of governing that seek to manage the conduct of populations both within and outside of the United States.
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Bilgin, Basaran. "An Analysis Of Developmental Governmentality In The Cold War Period." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607938/index.pdf.
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This thesis tries to provide a modest contribution to the critical studies on the history of development by exploring Cold War development practices. It questions the role of these practices in constructing a new regime that was conducive to govern the relationship between the West and the Third World after the Second World War. It suggests that development practices were composed of techniques and rationalities that were designed to solve the urgent problem of governing populations without using sheer force and sovereign power tools where these methods were not practical in the context of decolonization and Cold War. For this kind of inquiry, this thesis takes into account power relations embedded in the development practices and, by utilizing Michel Foucault&rsquos theories, perceives these practices as an essential way of disseminating biopolitical methods to the Third World. Role of the development discourse in governing populations is analyzed with relation to the notion of governmentality, which refers to modes of thought and the techniques of accomplishing rule in a discourse. In line with this theoretical framework, the first part of this thesis explores three schools of thought -modernization, dependency and world system- in order to explain the ways of producing thought and knowledge pertaining to development and the involvement of power relations in this process. Additionally, analyzing development aid and development planning which were the techniques to institutionalize development practices in the Third World countries and to render them technical that were managed only by experts without muddling with politics constitute the second part of this thesis .
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Leichnitz, Jordan. "Understanding contemporary governmentality: Death, healing and colonial patriarchy in Canada." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28327.
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This thesis explores the changing shape of colonial governmentality in Canada through an examination of the complex relationship between the representation and treatment of Indigenous women in Canada and power relations underlying the creation of "healing prisons" run for Indigenous women offenders. It is hypothesized that there is a mutually constitutive connection between the discursive and literal space of death faced by Indigenous women in Canada, and the deployment of specialized prisons as a gendered and raced political technology of the colonial state. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives to search for the reciprocal links between these disparate phenomena, this paper analyses dominant discourses to understand the emergence of new responsibilizing forms of colonial governance with particularly gendered effects. It concludes with an examination of the possibilities for utilizing a similar de-colonizing critique to counter emerging forms of colonial governance in the contemporary neo-liberal state.
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Lee, Joon Seong. "Digital Spirituality and Governmentality: Contextualizing Cyber Memorial Zones in Korea." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1153929122.
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Boozer, Wm S. "Governmentality and U.S. Congressional Discourse Regarding Abstinence-Only Sexuality Education." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/12.
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To investigate how federal discourse constructs adolescence, the author analyzed discussions of abstinence-only sexuality education from the U.S. Congressional Record from 2001 to 2007. He used grounded theory methodology to identify theoretical codes and construct a model from the data. The grounded theory developed focused on Congress’s maintenance of its role in mediating concern over the sexual behavior of adolescents as opposed to finding a solution to the problem it had identified. The author relates this theory to Foucault’s (1974/1991) concept of governmentality. He discusses Congress’s discourse about adolescence using Lesko’s (2001) confident characteristics of adolescence as a framework.
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Ivermee, Robert. "Secularism contested : Indian muslims and colonial governmentality, c. 1830-1910." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633830.
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In the early nineteenth century, European officials in India determined that the education offered in state schools and colleges would be exclusively secular: no religious teaching would be imparted in colonial educational institutions. This thesis enquires into the impact of the religious-secular distinction in Indian education from this date. After revisiting the origins of the government's commitment to secular education, it focuses upon the engagement of Indian Muslims with the colonial state, discerning how far Muslim parties opposed the separation of religion from education. The argument is advanced that concerns for the provision of religious education in the colonial system of public instruction played a critical role in the development of Muslim public activity, and of understandings of Muslim community, under British rule. Across the breadth of northern India, in Bengal, the North-Western Provinces and the Punjab, Muslim parties contested the divorce of religion from education, challenging the colonial government to respond to the requirements of their religious constituency. I employ the Foucauldian concept of governmentality which enhances our understanding of how the British government of India introduced a multiplicity of practices, including colonial public instruction, to regulate conduct and fashion subjectivities among Indian subjects. Building upon existing studies of the Anglo-Indian state as a governmentalised entity, the thesis then explores Indian Muslim negotiations of colonial educational provisions through which aspects of colonial governmentality were revised. The evolving institutions of civil society provided a location for Muslim parties to formulate public opinion and negotiate with government. With the growing support of European officials and educationalists, Muslim individuals and associations challenged the exclusion of religious teaching from government institutions and asserted the importance both of religious community and faith in Indian public spheres. The colonial separation of state. from religion was contested by Muslim parties interrogating nineteenth century meanings of the concept of secularism.
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Nasir, Muhammad Ali [Verfasser], and Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Haus. "Human Rights as Governmentality / Muhammad Ali Nasir ; Betreuer: Michael Haus." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1196298289/34.
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Joyce, P. "Risk, trust and governmentality : setting priorities in the new NHS." Thesis, University of Salford, 1999. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2220/.
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The thesis explores priority setting in the National Health Service. It focuses on the changing way in which rationing issues are dealt with in the wake of the Health Service reforms and the separation of function between purchasing and providing health care. It examines how managers within sample District Health Authorities justify their priority-setting agenda. Two connected themes are also analysed. One is how health needs assessment and the call for a 'primary care led NHS' presage a more dominant role for Public Health medicine in informing purchasing. Secondly, how evidence based medicine together with the use of clinical protocols/guidelines, measurement of outcomes and the use of clinical/medical audit, become factors in the decision making process. Theoretically, the thesis attempts to demonstrate a practical use for the Foucauldian concept of 'governmentality' as a framework with which to analyse contemporary changes in health policy. The principal concern is the role experts play within the problematisation of government associated with liberalism. This includes their role within the institutions and technologies of governance that reflect the notion that the strength of the liberal state is derived from securing the well being of the population. In turn this reflects the self-critical dynamic within liberal problematisations of defining the legitimate boundaries of government responsibility in a society made up of autonomous individuals. The PhD is based on semi-structured interviews (32 in total), conducted with the Chief Executives and principal directors of six English District Health Authorities, together with the Chief Officers of their associated CHCs. The District Health Authorities were selected - after a general review of Health Authority Purchasing Plans for 1996/97 - from those Authorities that acknowledged the rationing debate in their purchasing intentions and represented a cross-section of gainers and losers with respect to the new funding formula.
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Raaper, Rille. "Student assessment in neoliberalised universities : issues of discipline and governmentality." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7112/.
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Extensive research has been done on learning-oriented assessment practices in higher education. Keywords such as formative assessment, peer-assessment and feedback dominate the scholarly discourses of assessment. This research, however, argues that not enough attention has been paid to the relationship between assessment policy, power in assessment and the effects of assessment policy and practice on academic and student subjectivities. This is particularly the case in neoliberalised universities where institutional policies are constantly reshaped and developed for the sake of quality assurance and accountability. Guided by Michel Foucault’s work on discipline and governmentality, this doctoral research explores the ways in which assessment policies have been constructed in two European universities with different historical, political and social backgrounds: the University of Glasgow and Tallinn University. Furthermore, the study explores assessment as an institutional technology that can act on academics and students and shape their experience of their work and studies. In addition to policy analysis, the study involves interviews and focus groups with academics, graduate teaching assistants, students and assessment policy makers in both universities, as well as expert conversations with leading authors in the field. The analytic framework for the study is derived from Fairclough’s approach to discourse analysis. By exploring various discourses, the study traces the ways that assessment policies shape academics and students, and how they are negotiated and resisted by the participants. The research findings demonstrate that assessment policy and practice draw on wider higher education policy discourses such as the discourses of neoliberalism. The study argues that student assessment is highly complex in neoliberalised universities: it not only operates as a disciplinary technology through which the assessor dominates over the assessed, but can become a neoliberal technology of government that relies on a high number of (ambiguous) regulations and self-governance of academics and students. The issues of governmentality are particularly characteristic to a highly neoliberalised policy context in the University of Glasgow that shapes complex academic and student subjectivities. Both students and academics feel constrained and controlled in assessment processes, and they tend to accept rather than actively resist the institutional assessment policy and practice developments. However, some evidence of covert resistance was found. This can be conceptualised as a Foucauldian understanding of a subject who is not passively created through power relations but who has opportunities to create him/herself to some extent. As the study captured an early stage of neoliberalisation in Tallinn University, assessment can also be seen as operating, in this context, as a more traditional technology of discipline: little regulated, designed by academics and experienced by students as a subjective process. The findings demonstrate that a more traditional operation of assessment in Tallinn offers significant opportunities for individual pro-activeness and resistance, such as academics managing their practices and students manoeuvring within these practice contexts. These findings lead to the conclusion that assessment in higher education is not only an educational process but an institutional technology related to the issues of discipline and governmentality. Furthermore, they demonstrate that subjectification of academics and students through assessment policy and practice is complex and context-specific in which neoliberal policies tend to have a more constraining effect than that of the traditional understanding of assessment as the domain of the teacher.
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Rand, Gavin Thomas. "Martial-ing the Raj : the Indian Army and colonial governmentality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679845.
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Tshabalala, Thandeka. "The Urban Poor, Civic Governmentality and the Problem of Participation." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33047.
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This thesis examines practices of the Informal Settlements Network (ISN), part of the South African Slum Dwellers International (SA SDI) Alliance, as initiators of civic participation in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The SA SDI Alliance is made up of four organisations namely the Community Organization Resource Centre (CORC), Utshani Fund, the Informal Settlement Network (ISN) and the Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP). Through the thesis, I aim to provide an understanding of the nature of civic participation and the formation of "responsible" citizens amongst the urban poor in Khayelitsha, South Africa (Brown, 2015, p. 133). Critical in developing this understanding are the tools of the SA SDI Alliance through which the urban poor of Khayelitsha, Cape Town are allowed to participate in civic affairs. Drawing on theories of neoliberal governmentality the study traces how civic participation facilitated by the SA SDI Alliance manifests nationally through policy and at the provincial and local government level. The ultimate objective of the thesis centres on how participation under neoliberalism affects the lives of people in urban settlements through the activities of self-help organisations such as ISN. Using semi-structured interviews and shadowing three community mediators, the study unpacks the life trajectories and lived experiences of community mediators who are members of ISN. Whilst, describing these community mediators' lived experiences, the thesis examines the tension points relating to how ISN members navigate personal, community and institutions of participations that we do not see in the public discourse. The closer examination of these tension points enhances our understanding of the theoretical discourse surrounding the challenges and contradictions that participants face under neoliberalism. These challenges include the interface with fluid community dynamics. Furthermore, the thesis provides insights into the mutability of roles assumed by the community mediators and how it practically manifests on the ground.
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Nimarkoh, Virginia. "Shadow boxing : governmentality, performativity and critique in contemporary art practice." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428004.
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Wishart, Lucy J. "A resourceful aspiration : understanding the governmentality of Zero Waste in Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11946.
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This thesis is about Zero Waste governance in Scotland. The thesis has three aims: empirically, it seeks to develop an understanding of the Scottish Zero Waste policy; theoretically, it aims to critically assess this policy in relation to Governmentality for Sustainable Development; and methodologically, it investigates the use of governmentality as an analytical framework through which to understand governance of complex sustainability issues. The thesis argues that existing studies of Zero Waste have limited engagement with social theories. It is suggested that governmentality offers a potential theoretical framing through which to better understand Zero Waste governance. The thesis develops a process to critically evaluate Zero Waste governmentalities in comparison with a prescriptive Governmentality for Sustainable Development. Using a Sustainability Science approach, the thesis adopts a pluralist methodology in which multiple perspectives are valued in both data collection and analysis. Using a framework developed from empirical data and academic studies, data from expert interviews and policy documents is used to construct an understanding of Zero Waste policy in Scotland. The thesis found that Zero Waste in Scottish policy is understood as a tangible goal and a philosophy of resource use. Innovative governance techniques to promote Zero Waste are identified within policy. It is argued that the Zero Waste policy in Scotland presents a new form of governmentality. It is suggested that this governmentality has the potential to align with Governmentality for Sustainable Development. However, it is found that the strong transdisciplinarity envisaged as part of Governmentality for Sustainable Development is lacking in Zero Waste governance. This thesis considers the role of post-normal techniques in Zero Waste and evaluates and promotes the use of governmentality as a way to develop the strong transdisciplinarity missing from the Zero Waste policy in Scotland.
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Ashcroft, Craig, and n/a. "Academics� experiences of Performance-Based Research Funding (PBRF) : governmentality and subjection." University of Otago. Faculty of Education, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070125.162438.
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In 2002 New Zealand�s government set out to "accelerate" the nation�s "transformation into a knowledge society" (Ministry of Education, 2002a, p. 16). Underpinning the development of this so-called 'knowledge society' was a new approach in the way tertiary education was funded. This included introducing a new contestable model of research funding called Performance-Based Research Funding (PBRF). The research reported here was conducted at a critical juncture in the ongoing development and implementation of PBRF because it captures the experiences of fifteen academics as they encounter PBRF and the Quality Evaluation exercise for the first time. Their experiences of the inaugural 2003 Quality Evaluation exercise were examined using a discourse analysis approach informed by Michel Foucault�s (1926-1984) ideas of 'subjection' and 'governmentality'. 'Subjection' occurs when individuals shape their identities by responding to the multiple discourses that are available to them at any particular time and within any historical context (Foucault, 1969). 'Governmentality' refers to a particular instrument, technique or activity that guides and shapes conduct by producing a compliant human subject capable of supporting the interests and objectives of the state (Foucault, 1994a). In the case of academics this might mean conforming to PBRF policies and practices and participating in the development and transformation of a new 'knowledge society'.
In this thesis I examine the potential for PBRF to reshape and redirect the nature of research and suggest that some assessment elements of the 2003 Quality Evaluation were flawed and, as a result, a number of participants in this study were now making decisions about their research that appeared contrary to their best interests. I also investigate PBRF as a field of compliance and argue that the Quality Evaluation exercise represents a technology of government that targets the activities and practices of New Zealand�s research academics with the effect of manifesting a more docile and compliant academic subject. I then question PBRF�s impact on the career aspirations and opportunities of academics and claim that the PBRF Quality Evaluation framework has already shifted from being a mechanism for distributing funds for research to one that identifies and rewards the most 'talented' researchers via institutional appointments and promotions. Finally, I interrogate the pursuit and practice of academic freedom and argue that as a consequence of PBRF, a number of participants in this study have positioned themselves in ways that could diminish and constrain their traditional rights to academic freedom.
PBRF has the potential to locate academics within a new status-driven hierarchy of professional validation whereby the Quality Evaluation exercise will purportedly measure, evaluate and reward the most 'talented' researchers and the 'best' research. In this thesis I argue that the PBRF Quality Evaluation framework operates as a form of disciplinary power exercised as part of an international trend of intensifying audit and assessment practices in higher education. In this sense, I claim that PBRF exists as an instrument of governmentality capable of constituting a new type of academic subject by significantly shifting the way academics will have to think and conduct their professional selves in relation to their work and research.
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Druick, Zoe. "Narratives of citizenship, governmentality and the National Film Board of Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0004/NQ43421.pdf.
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Hesse, Barnor. "Signs of blackness : racialized governmentality and the politics of black diaspora." Thesis, University of Essex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243354.
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Roberts, Stephen L. "Catching the flu : syndromic surveillance, algorithmic governmentality and global health security." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/73582/.
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This thesis offers a critical analysis of the rise of syndromic surveillance systems for the advanced detection of pandemic threats within contemporary global health security frameworks. The thesis traces the iterative evolution and ascendancy of three such novel syndromic surveillance systems for the strengthening of health security initiatives over the past two decades: 1) The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED-mail); 2) The Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN); and 3) HealthMap. This thesis demonstrates how each newly introduced syndromic surveillance system has become increasingly oriented towards the integration of digital algorithms into core surveillance capacities to continually harness and forecast upon infinitely generating sets of digital, open-source data, potentially indicative of forthcoming pandemic threats. This thesis argues that the increased centrality of the algorithm within these next-generation syndromic surveillance systems produces a new and distinct form of infectious disease surveillance for the governing of emergent pathogenic contingencies. Conceptually, the thesis also shows how the rise of this algorithmic mode of infectious disease surveillance produces divergences in the governmental rationalities of global health security, leading to the rise of an algorithmic governmentality within contemporary contexts of Big Data and these surveillance systems. Empirically, this thesis demonstrates how this new form of algorithmic infectious disease surveillance has been rapidly integrated into diplomatic, legal, and political frameworks to strengthen the practice global health security – producing subtle, yet distinct shifts in the outbreak notification and reporting transparency of states, increasingly scrutinized by the algorithmic gaze of syndromic surveillance.
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Hjort, Mattias. "Governing deforestation : a governmentality analysis of tropical forests in climate negotiations." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6558/.
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This thesis conducts an empirical analysis of how ‘reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation’ (REDD+) is rendered governable through negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. REDD+ is a proposed emissions trading scheme where deforestation in ‘developing’ countries is reduced through monetary incentives, and where this counts and ‘reduced greenhouse gas emissions’ that can be used by ‘developed’ countries to comply with their commitments to reduce emissions. A Foucauldian governmentality perspective is applied to conceptualise the negotiations as a process of contestation where the outcomes validate and target certain governance arrangements, actors and ideas, while subjugating others, with concrete effects for how forest users, forests and the climate will be governed. This process is analysed by drawing on discourse analysis and actor-network theory to consider both social and material contestation throughout the negotiations, which serves to elucidate the contested foundation REDD+ is built on. The process of validation and subjugation analysed throughout the negotiations is argued to manifest a governing strategy that subjugates deviations from how REDD+ was originally conceived, and that polices its borders so as not to jeopardise growth-oriented patterns of production and consumption outside of the scheme.
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Chung, Hyunsook. "Governmentality in educational development : education, development and the role of ICT." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/556102/.
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Contemporary discourse in the related fields of education and development are increasingly dominated by notions of the knowledge economy, global competition, market compatibility, privatisation, performativity and entrepreunership. These dominant notions or imaginaries, proliferating through discourse across the world, impact on how we think about education and development and how thoughts are materialised in our everyday actions. Drawing on a Foucauldian approach to discourse analysis, this thesis problematises these inconspicuous, taken-for-granted notions, to make them visible and tangible, and to interrogate their role as mechanisms of discourse formation. It traces how such notions are manifested through the rhetorics, structures and trajectories of some instances of ‘education for development’. It works towards a better understanding of how the apparent post-WW2 neoliberal consensus has framed, transmitted and ratified these globalised and globalising discourses, and changed the dynamics of our social construction as citizens of a [post]modern globalised world, through the constitutive power of governmentality. Recent developments in ICT and digital education technologies have contributed to transfers or mobility of global education policies and a widening technologisation of educational systems. The thesis argues that these changes have been fuelled by transnational development programmes, such as Official Development Assistance funding, public-private partnership funding, and large scale philanthropy - under the rubric of bridging the digital divide. It further argues that these changes at the level of discourse are formed and sustained through relations of knowledge and power, which serve to legitimate the discourse and, in a kind of strategic game, make its dominant imaginaries appear more real. International policy makers, researchers and consultants are positioned at the centre of production and reproduction of the dominant discourse/s, and the consequent formation of policy and governance. The empirical data for this study comprises interviews with 51 such global knowledge workers, together with the texts of some key national and transnational policy documents. The study shows how these actors have themselves been constructed as subjects in the process of educational globalisation, and how the logic of the knowledge economy has been objectified and naturalised through this technology of the self.
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DelNero, Michael V. "Invasion, Surveillance, Biopolitics, and Governmentality: Representations from Tactical Media to Screen." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1438443088.
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Brown, Jennifer Margaret. "Governmentality, Economics, Active Citizenship and Art: Reparations of an allodoxic media." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17558.
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This thesis argues that compelling interventions from within the visual arts can be devised to empower citizens, directly or indirectly, with the skills and knowledge to make government play a better role in assisting with the stewardship and collective trusteeship of the commons. These actions can then in turn raise the expectations of other citizens about what is possible for the commons. In Australia, alongside most other Western liberal democratic countries of the worldat this time, there are inadequate institutional arrangements in place to prevent what is a radical shrinkage of support for the commons. One way of analysing this situation involves French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s (1930 – 2002) pioneering investigative frameworks and concepts that make visible the invisible processes through which power operates in society for social control. I have used this work of Bourdieu’s to articulate a framework (provided at the end of this thesis), which categorises the art activity as a working towards the maintenance and expansion of the commons. It does this by influencing non-spatial entities like governance and policy, although spatial forms may be one result of the tactics used. These works comprise situation-specific actions broadly categorised according to Bourdieu’s conceptual tools. The term allodoxia was first used by Greek philosopher Plato (427 – 347 BC) in the Theaetetus to refer to false beliefs arising from the misrecognition, and Bourdieu applies it to describe the results from violations of the autonomy of field production.The word derives from two Greek words ‘allo’ referring to a mixture, and ‘doxa’ to practices or teachings. However, I use the term allodoxia in a positive sense. Instead of Bourdieu’s interest in protecting the specificity of each field, I apply the term to art interventions that disrupt targeted areas in fields other than art, as remediations or vaccinations that intrude into privileged spaces. Positive allodoxia embodies active citizenship because it contends the misrecognition created by negative allodoxia that impacts on privileged space to expose and challenge the hegemonic processes of neoliberalism, globalisation and governmentality. Allodoxic artists seek to counter these agendas that constrain the art field by making systemic impacts outside the art field. Responding to threats and opportunities, they embed policy, rights and capable programs that are managed in sustainable ways in community stewardship. Allodoxic interventions use misrecognition because they are fundamentally activism claimed as art, and the cultural myths associated with artistic activity can be drawn upon. I am hoping that the logic of the restricted field of production that makes art conducive to formal experimentation and innovation, enables it to be accepted as a defined style and form. This is what I am working towards with the theorisation of a categorical place for allodoxic art I present in this thesis, which can be considered as the fourth wave of institutional critique and an evaluation model for new genre public art. Australian allodoxic art maps a comprehensive art field that has existed for over 40,000 years, providing various positions since the British invasion. Allodoxic art provides logic of a linear homogenous national time, grounded in Indigenous creative activity that is important for land rights movements internationally, and in particular for Australia where the legal notion was ‘terra nullius’ when invasion occurred. Within this context, allodoxic art responds to the self-reflexivity of the whole art field,whereby institutions and non-Indigenous artists can address the art field classification gulf that excludes Indigenous practice, and embrace the rich history of creative approaches of Indigenous peoples. As part of my situation-specific intervention practice and the development of a framework, I have also been drawn to the theoretical work of German political thinker Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975). Arendt’s analysis of what is necessary for successful revolutionary activities, those that bring sustained change to institutional arrangements, informs the guiding principles in the design of the tactics. Ultimately any effort to assert the commons involves the embedding of individual and communal rights, and this requires some type of public witnessing in an innovative rupture that can be made durable as a guiding principle or as a program. The ideas I draw from Arendt and Bourdieu provide the means to create art that deepens people’s understanding of the importance of the commons, and that can foster a vigilant citizenry to bring about social change for their maintenance and expansion. Today, large numbers of disenfranchised people possess a re-invigorated anticapitalist spirit, and can provide pressure to value allodoxic interventions within the art field. This is not through the hegemonic processes of formal education that inculcate forms of power that share a common economic logic (as theorised by Bourdieu), but through an understanding and appreciation of active citizenship examples.
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Gobby, Brad. "The governmentality of school autonomy and self-management: A Foucauldian analysis." Thesis, Gobby, Brad (2011) The governmentality of school autonomy and self-management: A Foucauldian analysis. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2011. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/6123/.
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Over the past four decades in Australia, many politicians, policy-makers, experts and social commentators have sought to increase the organisational autonomy of public schools and their principals. This trend of shifting the locus of educational decision-making and management away from bureaucratic centres to individual schools and parents continues, with the Western Australian state government recently introducing the Independent Public Schools policy. This policy devolves an increased range of organisational and curriculum responsibilities from the state education bureaucracy to selected public schools. This thesis examines what appears to be the enduring trend towards school autonomy and self-management.
The perspective of this thesis is informed by the theoretical, analytical and historical insights of Foucauldian studies of government, or governmentality. Foucault’s studies have increasingly influenced sociological and historical studies in education. His notions of power and discipline have been elaborated and applied in the study of the micro power relations of schooling. Unfortunately, while the study of schooling as a technology for disciplining the individual’s mind and body has received most attention, Foucault’s studies in government have been less widely understood, elaborated and used. This thesis explores Foucault’s genealogy of the formation of the modern liberal state (and governmentality) and the rich and subtle insights it provides into the complex relationship between the state, politics, society and the government of education.
I explore Foucauldian studies in government with the aim of teasing out their implication for our understanding of the relationship between selfmanaging school reforms and the state, politics and government. In particular, I argue that the trend in public schools towards school autonomy and self-management cannot be adequately understood without understanding the inherent dilemma embedded within the discourses of politics and government of modern liberal democracies. This problem can be described as an agonistic tension in liberal governmentality between political and governmental authorities enabling individual and economic freedom, whilst needing to secure the state and the welfare of its constituent elements under the condition of freedom.
This tension fuelled a ‘crisis of liberalism’ or a ‘crisis of liberal governmentality’ in the late twentieth century. This crisis involved vociferous critiques of the welfare state in conjunction with a cultural renewal of the discourses of individual freedom, emancipation, liberation and empowerment. According to Foucault, central to this crisis was concern about the costs of the perceived growth of excessive government of the post World War Two era, measured both economically and in terms of personal and political freedom. This thesis puts the case that the emergence of ‘self-managing school reforms’ is linked to this ‘crisis of liberalism’. The self-managing school constitutes both an instrument and object of government, re-regulating the domain of education according to an ethos of individual empowerment, activity, enterprise, autonomy and responsibility.
To illustrate some of the consequences of these reforms, two case studies are examined. The first explores the emergence at a national level of the devolution of responsibilities and authority to schools, particularly canvassed in the Schools In Australia report (1973) and by the Commonwealth Schools Commission (1973-1988). The second case study examines the use of self-management techniques and practices in schools. These reforms have sought to strengthen the capacity of those within schools to manage themselves and their schools as competitive enterprises with diminished reliance on central education bureaucracies. I argue that this development, like the case of devolution, is linked to the new ways of rationalising and enacting the care and government of the population and the state emerging from the crisis of liberalism. I conclude with a discussion of the implication of this trend towards self-management, specifically in terms of what is at stake for the liberal state from a mode of government that seeks to govern for its citizens’ freedom and also, often antagonistically, for the state’s security.
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Hamilton, Scott. "Governing through the climate : climate change, the anthropocene, and global governmentality." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3543/.
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The concept of anthropogenic climate change is now understood in the discipline of International Relations (IR) as an urgent environmental problem enveloping the globe. It underlies recent claims that humanity’s impact on the Earth’s natural systems is so consequential that a new geologic epoch has begun: The Anthropocene, or the ‘human age’. Yet, IR’s increasing engagement and use of these scientific concepts raises significant questions the discipline has yet to address. For instance, if global climate change appeared in international politics only as recently as the late-1980s, what spurred this sudden emergence? If the Anthropocene appeared only after 2000, then how does this new concept affect the way we now think about global politics, the Earth, and even ourselves? This thesis answers these questions by arguing that the concepts of global climate change and the Anthropocene are neither immutable nor universal scientific truths or natural objects. Rather, they emerged when technological advances in nuclear physics and models tracing bomb radiocarbon intersected with the ways states govern their territories and subjects. The global nature or ‘climatic globality’ of these concepts, therefore, is a manner of conducting and steering human conduct and action by establishing the boundaries of subjectivity when they are thought. This is what Michel Foucault called governmentality. It is demonstrated in this thesis through a genealogical tracing of climate change in IR, focusing on how nuclear sciences, computational modelling technologies, and regimes of international governance, overlapped to form the climatic globality IR now takes for granted. Combining genealogy with the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, a new form of global governmentality becomes evident. Through a technological and metaphysical subjectivism with the carbon atom as its substrate, the human self now asserts itself from atomic to global scales, as the maker, master, and steward, of the Earth.
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Spirer, Aron, and Christopher Styrlander. "Idealtyper i en finansialiseriad värld : Ett empiriskt förhållningssätt till det riskkalkylerande subjektet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-53613.
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Pensionssystemsreformer har på senare år blivit allt mer individualiserade, introduktionen av PPM systemet under 2001 har gett individen mer frihet över sin egen pensionsförvaltning, men samtidigt även ett större ansvar och risktagande. De senaste åren har även hushållens skuldsättning ökat drastiskt i förhållande till disponibel inkomst, medan tillgångarna ökar i liknande takt som skulderna. Således blir individen allt mer beroende av tillgångspriser i allmänhet och finansiella marknader i synnerhet. Detta fenomen brukar betecknas som en variant av ’finansialiseringen’ ur ett individuellt perspektiv. Då finansialisering påverkar oss individer i allra högsta grad, blir det värdefullt att studera hur vi reagerar och förhåller oss till denna utveckling och huruvida de lever upp till de förväntningar som ett ökat ekonomiskt ansvarstagande förutsätter. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för hur individer relaterar till privatekonomiska företeelser i spåren av en svensk finansialisering, genom skapandet av idealtyper med specifika drivkrafter och mentaliteter. Metod: Vi har använt oss av en abduktiv forskningsansats där vår ambition varit att skapa ny teori. Detta med hjälp av en kombination av tidigare forskning och en kvalitativ studie av bankrådgivares uppfattning kring individers privatekonomiska agerande och uppfattningar i relation till vad som är privatekonomiskt optimalt. Resultat: Med hjälp av tidigare teori och intervjuer med privatekonomiska bankrådgivare har vi lyckats skapa typiska idealtyper som belyser privatpersoners olika mentaliteter och drivkrafter i deras privatekonomiska liv och företeelser. Vi kan även utifrån studiens resultat dra slutsatser kring de förväntningar som teoretiskt ställs på individen, att denne har en hög grad av finansiell litteraritet, för att klara sig privatekonomiskt optimalt är överdrivna. Detta då det ofta räcker att visa intresse och ta hjälp av de stödfunktioner som finns att tillgå, bland annat bankens privatrådgivning.The Swedish pension system has become more and more individualized in recent years. The introduction of the PPM system in 2001 has given the individual more freedom and flexibility in their management of the pension portfolio, but it has also given the individual more responsibility and risk exposure. In recent years, the households’ indebtedness has also increased drastically in ratio with their disposable income, while their assets are increasing in roughly the same pace as the debt. This leaves the individual with more dependence towards asset prices in general and financial markets in particular. This phenomenon is often labeled as ‘financialization in the perspective of the individual. Because of the financialization’s extensive influence on the individual, it’s valuable to examine how individuals react and relate to this development. It’s also valuable to see if the individuals are living up to the expectations that come with a higher economic responsibility. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of how the individual relate to issues regarding personal finance in the wake of the Swedish financialization, by creating ideal types with specific incentives and mentalities. Method: We have been using an abductive research methodology where the ambition has been to create new theoretical knowledge. This was achieved by a combination of previous research and a qualitative study of bank councilors´ perception of individuals acting in their personal finance in relation to what the councilors find optimal or most rational. Conclusions: With the aid of previous theory and interviews of bank councilors, we have been able to create typical ideal types which highlight individuals’ different mentalities and incentives regarding their personal finance. From the result of the study, we were able to derive conclusions regarding the theoretical expectations that is put on the individual, that they have a high degree of financial literacy, to get an optimal personal finance is overrated. The reason for this is that it´s often enough to take interest in the personal finance and to use the support functions available, the banks personal finance counseling among others.
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Arcan, Ozge. "Securing Freedom Of Movement Of Persons In The Eu: A Governmentality Perspective." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612796/index.pdf.
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This thesis examines how the right of free movement of persons is governed through surveillance databases represented as security measures by applying the governmentality perspective. In order to do that, the study focuses on the relationship between freedom of movement, security and surveillance databases in the European Union such as Schengen Information System (SIS), European Dactylographic System (EURODAC) and the Europol Computer System (TECS). The main argument of the thesis is to analyze the role of surveillance databases in controlling the free movements of certain kinds of people that are seen as a "threat"
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Wilson, Adrian Wolford Wendy. "Decentering anarchism governmentality and anti-authoritarian social movements in twentieth-century Spain /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1661.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Geography." Discipline: Geography; Department/School: Geography.
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Hayase, Michiyo. "Neoliberal governmentality and school choice in Japan : the role of school principals." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12518.
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The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which the school choice programs are implemented in Japan, by focusing on the role of junior high school principals who are one of the key actors in the education system. In particular, the study sought to answer the following question: How do principals in large-scale and small-scale public junior high schools respond to school choice programs in Japan? Drawing upon the concept of neoliberal governmentality used by Larner (2000) and Brown (2003), this research looks at how principals work as neoliberal subjects in managing market-driven school choice programs within the public junior high school system in Japan. The bulk of my data comes from semi-structured interviews with five principals in Tokyo and Saitama. This study finds that three principals (from two large-scale and one small- scale schools) articulate their views about school choice clearly. In particular, one principal of an large-scale school advocates school choice, and his opinions are in line with predominant narratives in the school choice literature in Japan, regarding school choice as the incentive for teachers to work hard and for the creation of distinctive schools. Two principals’ views are more ambivalent. While they are in favor of general notions such as freedom of choice, they are against school choice in a practical sense, especially in reference to the predicaments that a principal of a small-scale school experiences. In terms of their actions, principals can be categorized into active and passive groups. Active principals of two large-scale and one small-scale schools incorporate endeavors to open up their schools to the community and primary school students and to improve students’ academic performance. Passive principals of two small-scale principals, in contrast, do not pursue specific activities. Instead, they make the most of their given situation, their small school size. One of them tries to resist school choice programs. In sum, the introduction of the school choice program that is based on the market principle has the potential for changing the meaning of public education that puts emphasis on holistic education into the one that is centered around market values.
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Smedberg, Naomi. "The Politics of Literacy in Sweden 1949–2013 : A Governmentality Studies Perspective." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225132.
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The aim of this master’s thesis is to trace examples of political rationality and governmental technologies in a selection of final reports of Swedish Public State Inquiries (SOU) where literacy and related concepts are fea-tured. I make use of the governmentality studies perspective developed by Nikolas Rose and colleagues. This can be described as a theoretical and methodological approach based on Michel Foucault’s concepts of govern-mentality, subjectivity, truth and knowledge, whose focus is on the ways in which social phenomena are repre-sented politically as problematic and how governmental technologies, in the shape of evaluative techniques, institutional practices, tools and programmes of reform and intervention, are developed for the remedy of such ‘social problems’. I pose questions, stemming from my primary aim, which relate to the observation of political rationality in my material, the kinds of governmental technologies which are suggested as useful or necessary, the aspirations of government discernible, as well as how literacy might be seen. I demonstrate that literacy can certainly be viewed as a governmental technology, employed in the realisation of political aspirations, on the basis of ideals of participation, influence, lifelong learning, and access, and through a political rationality, common in advanced liberal societies, which promotes notions of self-empowerment, autonomy and freedom. The ideal citizen is, I conclude, conceptualised principally as a Swedish-born, able-bodied, adult reader. This is achieved through a process of othering, or ‘dividing practices’, which places children, young people, immigrants, and to some ex-tent, people with reading difficulties and disabilities outside of the picture of literate normality. This is a two year master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum Studies.Syftet med den här masteruppsatsen är att urskilja exempel på political rationality och governmental technologies i ett urval huvudbetänkande av Statliga offentliga utredningar, där litteracitet och närliggande begrepp framhävs. För att uppnå detta syfte, tillämpar jag ett governmentality studies-perspektiv såsom det har utvecklats av Nikolas Rose med kollegor. Perspektivet kan beskrivas som ett kombinerat teoretiskt och metodologiskt angreppssätt med utgångspunkt i Michel Foucaults begrepp på governmentality, subjektivitet, sanning och kunskap, och som lägger fokus på hur sociala fenomen representeras och problematiseras politiskt, och hur governmental technologies, i form av bedömningstekniker, institutionella praktiker, reformeringsverktyg och -program för avhjälpande av sociala problem, utvecklas. Följande är exempel på frågor jag ställer i relation till uppsatsens syfte: är det möjligt att skönja en political rationality i mitt empiriska material? Vilka governmental technologies rekommenderas som användbara eller nödvändiga? Hur ser politiska förhoppningar ut? Jag påvisar att litteracitet tydligt kan ses som en governmental technology, använd för att förverkliga politiska förhoppningar, på basis av ideal såsom deltagande, inflytande, det livslånga lärandet och tillgång, genom en political rationality som präglar senliberala samhällen, och som främjar föreställningar om empowerment, autonomi och frihet. Jag drar en slutsats som visar att den idealiska medborgaren konceptualiseras främst som den flergenerationssvenske, vuxna läsaren utan funktionshinder. Detta åstadkoms genom en process av othering, eller ’skiljande praktiker’, som placerar barn, ungdomar, invandrare och, till viss del, människor med lässvårigheter och läshinder utanför bilden av den litterata normaliteten. Detta arbete utgör en två-årig masteruppsats inom ABM.
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Yao, Jen-to. "Governing the colonised : governmentality in the Japanese colonisation of Taiwan, 1895-1945." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394113.
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BARBOSA, IGOR ANDRADE VIDAL. "GOVERNMENTALITY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE 1962 NORTHEAST AGREEMENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=17445@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORA presente dissertação parte dos estudos de Michel Foucault acerca da governamentalidade com o intuito de compreender a temática do desenvolvimento internacional e, mais especificamente, o Acordo do Nordeste firmado em 1962 entre os Estados Unidos e o Brasil. Tal acordo surge da convergência de dois projetos distintos de desenvolvimento: a Operação Nordeste e a Aliança para o Progresso. Os anos iniciais do Acordo, contudo, foram marcados por uma série de divergências entre seus órgãos executores, quais sejam, a Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (SUDENE) e a Agência dos Estados Unidos para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (USAID). Tendo em vista a noção de que o desenvolvimento é um dispositivo de saber- poder que rearticula a maneira de se pensar sobre os limites temporais da Modernidade, situando a diferença entre sujeitos autônomos (civilizados) e não-autônomos (bárbaros) no contexto das normalidades e anormalidades que caracterizam uma população, adota-se como hipótese a idéia de que as discordâncias entre a SUDENE e a USAID representavam uma disputa política em torno da delimitação das categorias que definem os casos normais e anormais de desenvolvimento. Nesse sentido, trata-se também de uma disputa acerca dos próprios limites da Modernidade. Para indicar os principais pontos que compunham essa disputa, fez-se necessária a análise e a comparação das diferentes teorias que balizavam a Operação Nordeste e a Aliança para Progresso.
This dissertation uses Michel Foucault s study of governmentality with the purpose of understanding the issue of international development and, more specifically, the Northeast Agreement that was signed in 1962 between the United Stated and Brazil. This agreement results from the convergence of two distinct development projects: Operation Northeast and the Alliance for Progress. The initial years of the Agreement, however, were characterized by a number of disagreements between the two agencies that were responsible for its implementation, the Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast (SUDENE) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Considering the notion that development is a dispositif of power and knowledge that refashions the way we think about the temporal limits of Modernity by placing the difference between autonomous (civilized) and dependent (barbarian) subjects in the context of the normalities and abnormalities that characterize any population, we assume the hypothesis that the discord between SUDENE and USAID represented a political dispute regarding the delimitation of categories that define the normal and abnormal cases of development. In this sense, it is also a dispute regarding the temporal limits of Modernity. The analysis and comparison of the different theories that guided Operation Northeast and the Alliance for Progress was necessary to indicate the main points of this dispute.