Governmentality, new population and subjectivity

Shoshana, Avi

doi:10.1057/sub.2012.19

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“…It is critical to note that these descriptions do not only suggest that the power associated with creating classifications and categories is merely oppressive but also productive (Foucault, 2007). New categories and designations may also open up new existential alternatives and, subsequently, identities that had not existed previously (Shoshana, 2012). To emphasize the distinctiveness of these epistemological and ontological dynamics in the humanities, Hacking (1994) coined the term looping effec t. Using this concept, Hacking distinguished between categories of “human kind” and “natural kinds.” Unlike the natural kind, “human kinds can exert effects on themselves” (Brinkmann, 2005, p. 769).…”

Section: The Birth Of New Categories and The Social Construction Of “At‐risk Children”mentioning

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“Why is it that all the Dangerous Children are Black From the Neighborhoods?”: Critical Phenomenology of the Concept of Risk Among Adults Educated at Therapeutic Boarding Schools

Frantsman-Spector

Shoshana

2021

American J of Comm Psychol

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This article is based on in‐depth interviews with Israeli adults who had been labeled in their childhood as being at risk and removed from their home to residential care settings (RCS) by court order due to their families' extreme poverty. In seeking their perspective, the present article addresses the pivotal question of how, as adults, they define, experience, and relate to the concept of “at‐risk children.” The interviews revealed critical phenomenological readings of the notion of risk and the social institution of RCS. Analyzing the critical phenomenology of the interviewees offers research contributions concerning the study of the social construction of the concept of risk, its phenomenology, and the long‐term ramifications of labeling children as being at risk and of educating them in RCS.

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“Why is it that all the Dangerous Children are Black From the Neighborhoods?”: Critical Phenomenology of the Concept of Risk Among Adults Educated at Therapeutic Boarding Schools

Frantsman-Spector

Shoshana

2021

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…By contrast, an analytics of governmentality recognizes the explanatory potential of investigating the modes of thought or rationality 'encapsulated in discourses and knowledges that guide, advise and inform our ways of being in the world' (Campbell, 2010, p. 38). What an analytics of governmentality enables is an analysis of the epistemological bases within which subjectivity is formed, modified and negotiated (Ingram, 2010;Shoshana, 2011Shoshana, , 2012. As such, it is in the discursive realm that subjectivity is made thinkable, practicable and governable.…”

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Governmentality, subjectivity and AIDS

Nkomo

Long

2014

Subjectivity

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Our aim in this article is to examine the South African state's discursive deployment of the African renaissance discourse to prompt a particular kind of HIV positive subjectivity, during the years 1996-2003. We interrogate this connection along two axes. First, the article offers an analysis of the state's nudging of a new African subjectivity. Second, we examine the state's representation of a new African HIV positive subjectivity. In this way, the representation of a new African subjectivity -and subsequently a new HIV positive subjectivity -and the realization of the African renaissance discourse of a reconstructed Africa were mutually supporting. A critical analysis of the state and the treatment lobby group's representational practices implicates both in prompting the formation of an HIV positive subject who is rational, dignified and free.

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“…8-9). Still today, this view of Foucault tends to remain and applications of concepts of biopolitics and governmentality from his later works have done little to remedy the perception (Zukauskaite 2017;Roberts 2013;Mylonas 2013;Shoshana 2012;Binkley 2011).…”

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Foucault and the imagination: the roles of images in regimes of power and subjectivity

Reid

2018

Subjectivity

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The roles of imagination have been largely missed in Foucauldian literatures on subjectivity and constitutive practices of care for the self. His late inquiries into the practices by which the ancients pursued subject-formation have been situated, largely, within the ongoing debate over the relativity of his philosophical position on the question of the subject as such. In actuality imagination is crucial, I argue, for a Foucauldian understanding both of the processes of subjection by which western regimes have sought to govern human life as well as the practices by which we can nevertheless constitute ourselves as free subjects. The relationships between these processes of subjection and practices of freeing up the subject are not binary, however, and the different functions of imagination in these practices are complex. Liberating imagination requires, as argued here, hostility to the function of the image in constitution of the regimes that subject it.

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Governmentality, new population and subjectivity

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

“Why is it that all the Dangerous Children are Black From the Neighborhoods?”: Critical Phenomenology of the Concept of Risk Among Adults Educated at Therapeutic Boarding Schools

“Why is it that all the Dangerous Children are Black From the Neighborhoods?”: Critical Phenomenology of the Concept of Risk Among Adults Educated at Therapeutic Boarding Schools

Governmentality, subjectivity and AIDS

Foucault and the imagination: the roles of images in regimes of power and subjectivity

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