2014
DOI: 10.3167/th.2014.6114102
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Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age

Abstract: In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a 'secret history of the police' where greater attention is paid to public health, social welfare and regulating the marketplace than investigating and arresting criminals. This broad overview of Foucault's writings on the police exhibits a 'splintering-effect' in his modalities of power. To resolve this apparent contradiction, a nominalist reading that conflates Foucault'… Show more

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“…Moreover, these discourses play a role in perpetuating the police surveillance and disproportionate criminalization of transgender people and people of colour (Sudbury, 2011), which also serves to remove them from the public through their spatial relocation to carceral systems (Johnson, 2014). Transgender people were held as failing to fulfill the criteria for equal citizenship and consequently deemed unworthy of state-granted rights and protections, as well as a public existence.…”
Section: Who Is Worthy Of State Protection?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, these discourses play a role in perpetuating the police surveillance and disproportionate criminalization of transgender people and people of colour (Sudbury, 2011), which also serves to remove them from the public through their spatial relocation to carceral systems (Johnson, 2014). Transgender people were held as failing to fulfill the criteria for equal citizenship and consequently deemed unworthy of state-granted rights and protections, as well as a public existence.…”
Section: Who Is Worthy Of State Protection?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bir başka ifadeyle, sanayileşme ile ekonomik büyüme göstermeye başlayan kapitalist sistem kendi ihtiyaçlarını üretirken o ihtiyaçları karşılayacak alanları da üretmiştir. Örneğin disiplinli işçi ihtiyacını karşılamak için toplumu okullaştırırken (Illich, 2013), kapitalist girişimlerin güvenliğini sağlamak için de polis teşkilatının kurulmasında etkin olmuştur (Johnson, 2014).…”
Section: Sosyal Refah Devletinin Tarihi Arka Planıunclassified
“…Both are highly sceptical about liberal democracy and anticipate its failure, and build their philosophic narratives on the mythology of sovereignty (Michelbach and Poe 2016 , 252). Both would agree that ‘liberal governmentality, by governing less, seeks to govern more effectively, and, thus, ends up governing more’ (Johnson 2014 , 20).…”
Section: Covid-19: a Valediction For Schmitt And A Test For Agambenmentioning
confidence: 99%