Everything Is Dangerous: Conduct and Counter-Conduct in the Occupy Movement

Rossdale, Chris; Stierl, Maurice

doi:10.1080/13600826.2015.1133569

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“…In this sense, if governmentality is governing souls, households and family-counter-conduct is destabilizing, delocalizing, detorritorilising this type of mentality by creating an affect of entanglement which manifests as questioning, refusal or diagonal escapes from the specificities of humanitairan conducts. One of the effects of this entanglements is how language learning and teaching gives birth to counter narratives, counter realities and otherwise becomings (Rossdale & Stierl, 2016). Since moving away from governmentalization is impossible for anyone involved in a camp situation, counter-conduct should be understood thus: 'the will not to be governed is always the will not to be governed thusly, like that, by these people, at this price (Foucault, 1997b: 72).…”

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9 Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island

Yilmaz¹

2022

Exploring (Im)mobilities

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9 Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island

Yilmaz¹

2022

Exploring (Im)mobilities

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“…Amir pondered the provisional nature of their activities that escaped “concrete answers and firm closures” (Rossdale and Stierl, 2016: 169).…”

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Doing inclusion as counter-conduct: Navigating the paradoxes of organizing for refugee and migrant inclusion

2023

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Are organizational projects for refugee and migrant inclusion always trapped with the logic of exclusion and inequality that they seek to dismantle? Existing literature on critical diversity and inclusion studies has demonstrated how the “doing” of inclusion in organizations tends to come with paradoxical effects: well-intended efforts to include migrants and refugees construct them as vulnerable, non-autonomous subjects who need help, within a hierarchical order that is taken for granted. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how three civil society organizations (CSOs) navigate these paradoxical effects and the unduly constraining power relations involved through practices that we theorize as counter-conduct against the pastoral government of a national refugee and migrant integration regime. The analysis identifies three practices of counter-conduct through which organizations “do inclusion differently”: contesting constraining categorizations, problematizing hierarchical power relations, and questioning the assimilationist goals and principles of the integration regime. We argue that through continuous critique and renegotiation of the ways in which boundaries of inclusion/exclusion are drawn within the integration regime, organizations work toward conditions in which power relations remain fluid and allow for strategies to alter them.

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“…Here, counter-conduct is an essential part in the formation of subject positions through problematising governmentalities but also reproducing these. Despite theoretical (Cadman, 2010;Ettlinger, 2017) and empirical discussions outside everyday financialisation (Death, 2010(Death, , 2016Rossdale and Stierl, 2016) having picked up the Foucauldian concept of counterconduct, an empirical exploration of the productive power of counter-conduct in constructing subject positions is missing. Before returning to this framework, I give insights into previous research and the methodology employed.…”

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‘Locked in the Rat Race’: Variegated financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom

Agunsoye

2021

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In the past four decades, the UK welfare state has been continuously reduced while asset ownership has gained in importance. Rather than relying on publicly funded welfare when not working, individuals are expected to mitigate future risks such as ill health, unemployment or old-age poverty through accumulating assets. Previous research employing a Foucauldian governmentality framework has explored how these norms of asset accumulation come into being through institutional changes and discourses. Documenting the narratives and practices of 60 UK individuals and bringing in an understanding of resistance being immanent in power technologies, the author sets out two key contributions to the everyday financialisation literature. First, this paper is the first study to conceptualise differential financial discourses and practices as distinct subject positions within the realms of financialisation. Due to feeling ‘trapped’ in having to provide financial security themselves, governable subjects amend asset norms to their own needs. Five subject positions emerged from the complex interplay between norms of conduct and counter-conduct. Second, these variegated financial subjectivities and practices are, it is argued, not only deviating from a theorised investor subject but are also necessary for everyday financialisation to take place. Counter-conduct helps to smoothen ambiguities inherent in norms of conduct, enabling asset accumulation and reinforcing a welfare system based on individual responsibility.

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Everything Is Dangerous: Conduct and Counter-Conduct in the Occupy Movement

Abstract: How can we conceive of practices of counter-conduct within spaces of resistance? This paper examines practices of counter-conduct

Cited by 20 publications

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9 Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island

9 Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island

Doing inclusion as counter-conduct: Navigating the paradoxes of organizing for refugee and migrant inclusion

‘Locked in the Rat Race’: Variegated financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom

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