Foucault's Concept of Power and the Global Discourse of Human Rights

Manokha, Ivan

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“…A dispositif is an ensemble of discursive and material elements that is mediated by substitutable agents, with reference to which agents are evaluated and disciplined, and which the agents also often use to evaluate themselves (Manokha 2009). It consists of 'discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic positions' (Foucault 1980a: 184).…”

Section: Global City Dispositif As a Governmental Mechanismmentioning

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Governmentality, the global and Russia

Kangas

2014

J Int Relat Dev

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Section: Global City Dispositif As a Governmental Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governmentality, the global and Russia

Kangas

2014

J Int Relat Dev

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“…Through the prism of governmentality, the social construction of the international human rights regime has been subject to critique in highlighting the role of law as a disciplinary mechanism and as an element functional to the global governance of conducts (see e.g. Evans 2005;Manokha 2009;Rajkovic 2010).…”

Section: The Governmentality Studies Perspectivementioning

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The MTST Politics of Social Rights: Counter-Conducts, Acts of Citizenship and a Radical Struggle Beyond Housing

Fierro¹

2020

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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The Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Teto (MTST)-Homeless Workers' Movement-is a social movement that struggles for housing and for a radical transformation of capitalistic socioeconomic relations. The present paper offers a problematization of the movement's plea to social rights. They are part of the movement's discourse and strategy. However, the activists' objective is more radical: they aim at a complete transformation of the Brazilian economy and society. By first discussing two sets of literatures-Critical Legal Theory and Governmentality Studies-this article illustrates the complexity and the ambivalences of a radical politics of rights. Then, by contrasting my ongoing ethnographic research with the work of James Holston and Lucy Earle, I discuss the relevance of a citizenship framework for the MTST's struggle. Finally, inspired by Foucault's concept of counter-conducts, the article argues that the movement's politics of rights represents an effective tactic to contrast neoliberal governmentality and to create radical democratic spaces of struggle and collective resistance.

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“…35 A dispositif can be mediated by a variety of substitutable agents who evaluate and discipline others, as well as themselves, with reference to it. 36 Interestingly, individual agents may also play substitutable roles within a dispositif. For example, while Saskia Sassen's and Peter Taylor's global city theorization can be characterized as a neo-Marxist criticism of the concentration of command and control functions into global cities, 37 as a scientific advisors and contributors, they have also been important players in the production and legitimation of consultant companies' global city reports, which treat global citydom as a desirable status.…”

Section: The Global City As Dispositifmentioning

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Global Cities, International Relations and the Fabrication of the World

Kangas¹

2017

Global Society

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The global city presents one available model for understanding urbanization and associated hierarchies of power. In International Relations, the global city is treated as a unit in a new type of international system, an increasingly important actor in world politics, or a site through which global processes operate. This article forwards an alternative perspective. It treats the global city as a dispositif of power. While the global city captures the fact that power and wealth are spatially concentrated in today's urbanizing world politics, the concept also has a world-making capacity. The article analyses this capacity in two contexts: Firstly, it presents a genealogy of the voyage of the global cities concept from critical academic scholarship to a buzzword of city elites and business consultants. Secondly, it performs a governmental analysis of global city reports and indexes. Finally, the article suggests that conceptualizing the global city as a dispositif enables the important task of imagining alternative ways of framing the meaning of urbanization in world politics.

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Foucault's Concept of Power and the Global Discourse of Human Rights

Cited by 29 publications

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Governmentality, the global and Russia

Governmentality, the global and Russia

The MTST Politics of Social Rights: Counter-Conducts, Acts of Citizenship and a Radical Struggle Beyond Housing

Global Cities, International Relations and the Fabrication of the World

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