Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

Nadesan, Majia Holmer

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“…9 Rather than trying to discover the biology of politics, or the politics of biology, Foucault argued that one should study the historical development and deployment of multiple strategies and technologies for the political administration of biological life as normalized phenomena. For Foucault, biopolitics came to mean a new form of political power (added to his famous though fuzzy typology of sovereign power, pastoral power and disciplinary power), 10 the object of which is neither the subject (as it is for sovereign power and pastoral power) nor the singular human body (as it is for disciplinary power), but the biological features of human beings as they are measured and aggregated on the level of populations.…”

Section: The Biopolitical Interpretation Of Genocide and Mass Violencementioning

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The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide

Alsheh¹

2017

Human Remains and Mass Violence

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Section: The Biopolitical Interpretation Of Genocide and Mass Violencementioning

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The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide

Alsheh¹

2017

Human Remains and Mass Violence

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“…This paper explores the broad sense of the dilemmas in "how liberal governmentalities target life through social and scientific engineering, through expert administration, and through everyday technologies of the self" (Nadesan 2008: social rules and the current economic problems, Japan has been one of the OECD's most unequal nations in terms of income distribution since at least the 1990s (Schoppa 2006: 2). Despite this, governmental expenditure for young families in contemporary Japan is still very low when looking at OECD standards (Adema et al 2014: 52).…”

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Enhancing autonomy in reproductive decisions? Education about family planning and fertility as a countermeasure against the low birthrate

Fassbender

2016

Contemporary Japan

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As Japan's declining birthrate has been perceived as a major menace to its society since the 1990s, pronatalist policy approaches are again a source of social and political concern. This paper focuses on a number of political measures involved in ameliorating low birthrates -measures that emphasize the necessity of educating individuals about reproduction and fertility in order to enable them to make informed decisions. Investigated will be the question of how the new trend in the narrative of countermeasures focusing on education about reproduction can be evaluated, particularly regarding the question of how the notion of "autonomy" is to be understood in this context. The reference points in this deliberation are two dimensions of autonomy that have been carved out in various fields of scholarship: (i) autonomy as empowerment and (ii) autonomy as a neoliberal government technology. Furthermore, and constituting an additional level, are the issues of how gender is depicted in this narrative, and how its representation has to be evaluated in the context of autonomy. The argumentation is based on the analysis of the political narrative on pronatalist policy, concrete examples of its implementation, as well as contributions from sources critical of the policy.

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“…Public policy researchers indebted to Foucault have undertaken fruitful work in this vein to open up the spaces for autonomy and critical practice for professionals and recipients alike within social policy (Parton, 1996;Cruikshank, 1999;Karlsen and Villadsen, 2008;Nadesan, 2008). Yet, as we noted at the outset, this position has lead to a perhaps unwarranted restriction of the kinds of power that could be analysed and the stances that could be taken with respect to the state.…”

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Public Policy and Foucaultian Critique: Towards a Happy Marriage?

Villadsen¹,

Karlsen²

2012

RES

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This article suggests that certain intertwinements can be discerned between contemporary public policies and post-structural thinking, emblematically represented by Foucault and scholars drawing upon his work. The article demonstrates that the post-structural perspective on power, while recognising its strengths and efficacy, confines observers to a particular form of analytical critique, which sets specific limits for what can be observed and debated. The position of Nikolas Rose is discussed with a specific attention to his diagnosis of the adoption of 'community' as a governmental category and his understanding of the relationship between power and critique. A significant challenge for this form of critique is the recent embracing of concepts of 'diversity' and 'pluralism', both in welfare reforms and service arrangements. Another difficulty is posed by how to engage with the material conditions of critical practice which implies analytical critique and resistance through creative self-formation. The article suggests some dislocations of the generalized Foucaultian position on public policy that seem increasingly necessary in the present situation.

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Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

Cited by 105 publications

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The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide

The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide

Enhancing autonomy in reproductive decisions? Education about family planning and fertility as a countermeasure against the low birthrate

Public Policy and Foucaultian Critique: Towards a Happy Marriage?

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