Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government

Staples, William G.; Barry, David Andrew; Osborne, Thomas B.; Rose, Nikolas

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“…In the direction of an analytical non-normative approach of governance processes, the post-structuralist governmentality perspective (Rose, 1996) has paid attention to the techniques employed by government agencies in searching for their particular objectives, and has offered key critical insights to inform research on governance (Herbert-Cheshire, 2000;Murdoch, 1997). However, this perspective has tended to overstate the coherence and unity of governmental programmes without paying much needed attention to the agency of individuals and institutions, particularly the possibilities for contestation and resistance.…”

Section: Governance Evaluation and Interface Analysismentioning

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Strengthening the evaluation of sustainable development interventions: Inputs from a social interfaces analysis and livelihood research

Rodríguez-Bilella

2022

Env Pol Gov

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Since the Brundtland Commission voiced its call for sustainable development, multiple actors at different levels have been increasingly interested in establishing a means to monitor performance and to assess progress towards sustainable development. Different approaches have been developed and tested, and the key role of a clear conceptual framework for guiding the assessment process has been recognized. An alternative perspective can be offered by the incorporation of a social interface analysis and a livelihoods approach in order to strengthen the evaluation of sustainable development interventions both at the project and strategic level. This paper firstly shows the link between a non‐normative approach of governance and the social interface analysis, which is explicitly introduced. Secondly, the notion of sustainable livelihoods is presented as the basis for an approach more interested in the agency of households and communities and their potential, competence, capacities, and strengths, rather than their weaknesses and needs. Thirdly, as the social interface analysis implies that theory is grounded on empirical investigation, the paper introduces a case study in four Andean communities in Central West Argentina, where inputs from the social interface analysis and livelihood research were used in order to assess the impact of an external “community‐based” development intervention. Finally, the relevance of the two approaches to foster a more nuanced evaluation of sustainable development interventions is discussed.

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Section: Governance Evaluation and Interface Analysismentioning

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Strengthening the evaluation of sustainable development interventions: Inputs from a social interfaces analysis and livelihood research

Rodríguez-Bilella

2022

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“…Power is not a tool of domination but a natural order of things to which most people submit, because according to Hardy and Clegg (1996), without realising it, people themselves participate in creating that order. Foucault's notion of power also serves as a basis for discussion about freedom and the role of the modern liberal state (Barry, Osborne & Rose, 2004).…”

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Power, empowerment and organisational communication

Oksiutycz

2022

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Power is an integral part of organisational life. Main schools of thought on the subject of powerin an organisational setting consider power to be either a resource held by individuals anddepartments, or an inherent feature of organisational structure and society. While it is relativelyeasy to identify surface manifestations of power, the deep structures of power are much moredifficult to analyse. Public relations literature focuses on power “held” by public relations practitionersand the power of public relations departments in their relations with other departments in anorganisation, as well as the imbalances of power between the organisations and their respectivepublics. In the context of the increasing complexity of the organisational environment, this articlesuggests the application of organisational cybernetics to public relations theory, and it considersthe role that organisational communication plays in releasing the productive power of employeesand in designing effective organisations through the introduction of recursive organisationalstructures.

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“…Schools of the modern, governmental type emerged at the end of the 18th century 'as an improvised reality, assembled from the available moral and governmental "technologies", as a means of coping with historical contingency' (Hunter, 1994: 3). The 'assembling' of schooling (Hunter, 1996) came into existence by patching together components of existing, available institutional orders. First, bureaucratic organization is an inherent, not an accidental element of modern schooling, providing this institution with untold powers, reach and efficacy.…”

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The coming of ‘age’: Educational and bureaucratic dimensions of the classification of children in elementary schools (Western Europe, 19th century)

Caruso

2022

European Educational Research Journal

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Age-classes are a salient feature of modern schooling. Yet how did age-grouping come to prevail in entire school systems? And how was this form of grouping related to educational and pedagogic discussions at the time of its emergence? The article addresses these issues by looking at the historical context within which age classes came to a dominant position: the European nineteenth century. From the perspective of a governmental theorising of modern schooling, the article reconstructs the pace of their imposition and the main arguments in their favour through the analysis of a sample of 125 manuals of school management and organization of teaching. Against the usual description of age classification as a clear sign of the bureaucratic nature of modern schooling, the manuals show a concern about educational issues such as (de)motivation, encouragement and intelligence when discussing the role of age for the organization of elementary schools. The general idea of the modern school as an ‘assembling’ calls for more nuanced historical analyses of different combinations of the pastoral and the bureaucratic as techniques defining this institution.

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Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government

Cited by 31 publications

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Strengthening the evaluation of sustainable development interventions: Inputs from a social interfaces analysis and livelihood research

Strengthening the evaluation of sustainable development interventions: Inputs from a social interfaces analysis and livelihood research

Power, empowerment and organisational communication

The coming of ‘age’: Educational and bureaucratic dimensions of the classification of children in elementary schools (Western Europe, 19th century)

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