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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality by Colin Gordon, Graham Burchell, Peter Miller

The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality Colin Gordon, Graham Burchell, Peter Miller ebook
Format: djvu
Page: 318
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226080451, 9780226080451

Foucault defines governmentality as the sum of institutions, tactics, and procedures which enable “this very specific, albeit very complex, power that has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge, and apparatuses of . It is recognized that it is impossible to fully apply the Foucauldian perspective, for the discover the hidden knowledges (geneaologies), one would have to visit the border region itself and interview people. 4 in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991), pp. School of Environmental Sciences. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 79: 1139-47. (1991) 'Governmentality', in G. In order to understand better the process of commodification we have to go back to the origins of policy-making in the eighteenth century, the period in which Michel Foucault located the rise of governmentality (Foucault, 1991). --Michel Foucault, Governmentality, in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality 87 (Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon & Peter Miller eds., 1991). For 'regimes of rationality', see: Foucault, M. This literature however draws on too narrow a conception of freedom thereby leaving comparatively unexplored the broader implications of the analytics of government that Foucault initiated. According to him aesthetic activity, if properly monitored through education, produces an effect and a 'knowledge' in the human subject derived from universally valid 'morally practical precepts' that are independent of particular interests. Governmentality In The Foucault effect: studies in governmentality (eds) G. In this post, I make some tentative, scattered (Foucault 1991 'Governmentality' in The Foucault Effect). The effect of this has been that governmentality studies have focused heavily on (neo)liberal government and subjectivity, emphasizing how people are governed, and govern themselves, “through freedom” (Rose 1999). Miller (eds.) The Foucault effect: studies in governmentality. The genesis of the latter idea comes from my reading of Foucault-inspired literature on the relationship between territory, biopolitics and governmentality. As the modern nation state developed, . Michel Foucault, “Governmentality”, Ch. It does so by applying the theory of governmentality and having an emphasises on discourse and power. I think its the same lecture that stsguru mentioned, but I would suggest this book-. With similar legislation regarding sex re-assignment and sterilization (Mother Jones), one can trace an almost straight line back to the preventative logic of the smallpox epidemic in the eighteenth century Europe which Foucault studies. 'Questions of Method', in Burchell, Gordon, & Miller (eds.) The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, p.