Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison (an excerpt)

Foucault, Michel

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“…However, by not conforming to hegemonic conventions of appropriate child rearing age and context (Reekie, 1997), the young mothers were subjected to a “micro‐economy of privileges and impositions” (Foucault, 1995, p. 180) that played out in public and private. Those activities that were previously left to the private domain (such as matters of parenting) have been tapped into by experts and professionals, such as Work and Income case managers, Youth Service providers, social workers and teachers, acting as judges of normality (Foucault, 1995; Rose, 1999). Families who stray from ‘normal’ are subjected to regulation/discipline in order to normalise them and engender the “right” kind of children to be raised within them.…”

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E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits

Cram¹,

Adcock

O'Brien

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Soc Policy Adm

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E Hine was a longitudinal qualitative Kaupapa Māori (by Māori, for Māori) research study involving 44 young Māori women who were first interviewed in 2012‐2013 and followed through their pregnancies and until their babies were 2 years old. The present analysis of the E Hine database examines the young women's experiences of accessing welfare benefits through Work and Income. Welfare benefits were not the central focus of the E Hine study, but often came up in conversations with the young women and their whānau (family). As a result, E Hine offers those considering ways to improve welfare benefit policy and service delivery a frank account of how young Māori mothers and their whānau see and experience the system. Four themes arose from participants' talk: what being on the benefit was like, their positive and negative impressions of Work and Income, and how they took control of their situation. In common with other recent qualitative studies, the findings suggest potential to improve the experience of the welfare benefit system by providing support within the context of culturally‐responsive, caring, trust relationships that help unlock the potential of young Māori parents.

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E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits

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“…The importance of clientelism's communicative power has been highlighted in public relations literature due to its capacity to create and sustain asymmetric relationships between patrons and clients or government officials and companies (Hallin & Papathanassopoulos, 2002;García, 2015b). Patronage relationships would act as a source of capillary power, in Foucault's terminology (Foucault, 1991), because, due to people's expectations of obtaining favors from the tyrant and feeling observed by the tyrant's supporters, they feel comfortable proving their loyalty to the government even in their most private aspects of life.…”

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Challenging hegemony and power in the sixteenth century: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude as antecedent of critical public relations theory

García

2021

Communication & Society

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This article applies La Boétie’s concept of voluntary servitude to public relations historiography through a historic-critical analysis. Written in the same Renaissance era than other early history books of the history of public relations such as Machiavelli’s The Prince, The discourse of voluntary servitude (1552-1553) reveals to the publics the power that would lie in their refusal to engage with the authority (or in other words, the state, the prince or the monarch). The result is that, through a postmodern approach of emphasizing dissensus, the concept of voluntary servitude and its encouragement of activism and passive resistance can be considered an early precedent of critical public relations theory. Furthermore, without being judgmental, La Boétie invites us to a reflection on the role of self-responsibility of the publics in their power relationships with organizations.

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“…The level of harshness in punishment always sets itself so that even the poorest remains deterred. Foucault's (1979) later quest was to explain the birth of the prison. He attributed it to the demand of the bourgeoisie in industrializing society for a denser and more efficient criminal justice that could bring under control the shadow economy of illegalities occurring behind the back of the baroque penal policy of the sovereign coinciding with a revolution in the techniques of institutional discipline.…”

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Welfare, corporatism, and criminal justice: comparing Durkheim and the new institutionalists

Häkkinen

2019

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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Émile Durkheim known among other things for his pioneering sociology of criminal law was also a corporatist theorist and can be interpreted as a predecessor for an institutionalist approach that has recently gained popularity in comparative criminal justice. Durkheim suggested an inverse relationship between the intensities of "repressive" regulation and "restitutive" welfare state regulation. Contemporary institutionalist research has arrived at the same conclusion, but the connection between Durkheim's theory and the empirical observations of modern comparative research has gone largely unnoticed in both legal scholarship and sociology. Correcting this omission might prove useful for substantive theory: Apart from welfare state strength, neo-institutionalist research has also associated lenient criminal law with corporatist political economy and consensus democracy. Durkheim's political sociology proposes an answer for the interrelationship between these factors. Durkheim considered social corporatism a democratic institution and as such a precondition for a democracy capable of building the collective restitutive regulation that could alleviate society's reliance on punitive justice as a basis for social cohesion.

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Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison (an excerpt)

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E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits

E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits

Challenging hegemony and power in the sixteenth century: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude as antecedent of critical public relations theory

Welfare, corporatism, and criminal justice: comparing Durkheim and the new institutionalists

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