Affective governmentality through gratitude: governmental rationality, education, and everyday life

Shoshana, Avihu

doi:10.1080/17508487.2021.1881914

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“…Up until around two decades ago, Israel's elites, aligning with the strong collectivist discourse, filled key positions in the army, education and politics. Contemporary research has shown that the elite's children no longer consider the military, education or politics as elite spaces, preferring tech professions (Shoshana, 2022). Fourth, it is interesting to note the (semi‐) apology (and its immediate solution) or rhetorical delay offered by Matan, as by many interviewees.…”

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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

Pinto‐Dror,

Shoshana

2024

British Educational Res J

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The research question at the core of this paper concerns how teachers in elite Israeli high schools explain their educational work in this context, given its central role in establishing and perpetuating privilege in the current polarised era. To answer this question, we conducted 28 interviews with teachers from three elite high schools in Israel. The findings reveal three ways teachers justified their educational work in elite schools: cultivating the ‘serving elite’, helping shape elite students' leftist political orientation and future voting behaviour (emphasising the idea that political leftism serves as a mitigating force against the excesses of plutocracy) and fulfilling elite children's right to a level of education commensurate with their ability. The discussion problematises these justifications by highlighting their features, which, in turn, contribute to a complex understanding of how privilege functions and how advantages and inequality are produced and perpetuated in exclusive and exclusionary elite spaces.

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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

Pinto‐Dror,

Shoshana

2024

British Educational Res J

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“…By taking up this question, the present inquiry aims to contribute with new insights about the specific connection Spinoza establishes between 'government' and 'affect'. 1 For theoretical studies, see (Negri and Hardt 2000;Esposito 2008;Saar 2013;Negri 2013;Mühlhoff 2018;de Beistegui 2016;, and for applied ones, see (Clough 2008;Pereira 2019;Shoshana 2022).…”

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The Affects By Which We Are Torn: Four Essays on Government and Affect

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This dissertation strives to expand the current state of our understanding of governmentality by exploring and substantiating a distinct affective register of governmentality. To corroborate the relationship between government and af-fect, the present study takes its point of departure in Foucault’s history of governmentality and contends that Spinoza’s political philosophy of affect fur-nishes the focal point for a novel articulation of an art of conducting individuals through their desires and affects. Given the multiplicity of aspects disclosed by a consideration of the relationship between government and affect, each of the dissertation’s four essays reconstructs a particular governmental problematic in each of Spinoza’s mature works to generate new insights for social, political, and organizational theories of affect. The first essay inquires into the rationality that informs the government of affects; its so-called ratio gubernandi. It demon-strates that a series of thinkers in the 17th century rationalized the art of governing by applying the conceptual tools of geometry to an anatomico-metaphysical conception of human desire (conatus). It suggests that this govern-ment of affect should accordingly be understood in an anatomo-political register rather than a bio-political one. The second essay strives to refine and advance this anatomo-political conceptualization of affective governmentality by articulating it from the perspective of pastoral power, that is, in terms of a ‘government of souls’ or regimen animarum. Through an original interpretation of Spinoza’s study of the Hebrew Republic, it argues that ceremonies and rituals function as governmental technologies that cultivate desired affects by causing them to become intense and durable. The third essay turns its gaze to the ques-tion of affective self-government. It proposes that the generally overlooked affective constitution which Spinoza calls ‘vacillation of mind’ renders certain techniques possible by which sad affects can be countervailed or conquered by stronger affects that cause joy. Finally, the fourth essay contributes more specif-ically to current engagements with affect in organization theory by introducing the transindividual, analytical concept of ‘affective complexion’ or ‘ingenium’ to the study of affect in organizations and by advocating for the methodological purchase gained by considering affects in light of Spinoza’s psychophysical framework. In sum, the dissertation presents an original study of affective gov-ernmentality.

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Discipline and moralise: gratitude education for China’s migrant families

Yi,

Vickers

2024

Comparative Education

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Affective governmentality through gratitude: governmental rationality, education, and everyday life

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

The Affects By Which We Are Torn: Four Essays on Government and Affect

Discipline and moralise: gratitude education for China’s migrant families

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