Introduction: Thinking after Michel Foucault

Venn, Couze; Terranova, Tiziana

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“…The struggles involved here require constant and organised work on the self; that is, the ‘establishment of a certain objectivity, the development of a politics and a government of the self, and an elaboration of an ethics and practice in regard to oneself’ (Foucault, 1997: 117). These struggles have to do with the right to define ourselves according to our own judgments; or, in other words, to develop a particular technology of the self according to our own principles, an aesthetics of the self (Foucault, 1992: 2010), which is focused on the question of who we are and who we might become, and on ‘the labour of becoming’ (Venn and Terranova, 2009: 3).…”

Section: New Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast

Ball¹

2016

Policy Futures in Education

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Section: New Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast

Ball¹

2016

Policy Futures in Education

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“…In the sphere of work and employment relationships, this means that the techniques of managerial control that operate through biopower do not target individual workers directly but the environment in which they operate. These types of techniques of managerial control allow the enterprising capacities of subjects to freely unfold, take their shape, and produce their effects, but also direct and channel these processes by fixing a framework and a set of parameters that define the rules of the game in the employment relationship (Venn and Terranova, 2009). In these processes, power is not primarily exerted over and through the individual by means of disciplinary mechanisms of surveillance that target the individual, which are negative in the sense that they seek to prevent, prohibit and prescribe (Foucault, 2007: 44–46).…”

Section: An Analytics Of Government Perspective On Managerial Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mechanisms of biopower and neoliberal governmentality in precarious work: Mobilizing the dependent self-employed as independent business owners

Moisander¹,

Groß

Eräranta³

2017

Human Relations

102

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In the contemporary conditions of neoliberal governmentality, and the emerging ‘gig economy,’ standard employment relationships appear to be giving way to precarious work. This article examines the mechanisms of biopower and techniques of managerial control that underpin—and produce consent for—precarious work and nonstandard work arrangements. Based on an ethnographic study, the article shows how a globally operating direct sales organization deploys particular techniques of government to mobilize and manage its precarious workers as a network of enterprise-units: as a community of active and productive economic agents who willingly reconstitute themselves and their lives as enterprises to pursue self-efficacy, autonomy and self-worth as individuals. The article contributes to the literature on organizational power, particularly Foucauldian studies of the workplace, in three ways: (1) by building a theoretical analytics of government perspective on managerial control that highlights the nondisciplinary, biopolitical forms of power that underpin employment relations under the conditions of neoliberal governmentality; (2) by extending the theory of enterprise culture to the domain of precarious work to examine the mechanisms of biopower that underpin ongoing transformations in the sphere of work; and (3) by shifting critical attention to the lived experience of precarious workers in practice.

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“…In particular, the notion of biopolitical governmentality establishes a theoretical framework that invites us to link neo-racism with the rise of neo-liberalism (Venn and Terranova, 2009). Neo-racism is a set of governmental strategies that perform an essential 'supplementary' function within a neo-liberal order.…”

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“…Foucault's genealogy of racism provides a new understanding of racism as biopolitical governmentality, which might help us analyse and conceptualize the contemporary forms of neo-racism. In particular, the notion of biopolitical governmentality establishes a theoretical framework that invites us to link neo-racism with the rise of neo-liberalism (Venn and Terranova, 2009). Neo-racism is a set of governmental strategies that perform an essential 'supplementary' function within a neo-liberal order.…”

Section: Resistance To Biopolitical Governmentalitymentioning

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Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism

Rasmussen

2011

Theory, Culture & Society

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This paper argues that Foucault's genealogy of racism deserves appreciation due to the highly original concept of racism as biopolitical government. Modern racism, according to Foucault, is not merely an irrational prejudice, a form of socio-political discrimination, or an ideological motive in a political doctrine; rather, it is a form of government that is designed to manage a population. The paper seeks to advance this argument by reconstructing Foucault's unfinished project of a genealogy of racism. Initially, the paper situates the genealogy of racism within the context of Foucault's work. It belongs to a period of transition between the mature and the late part of Foucault's work, more specifically a period of transition from discipline to governmentality. The paper proceeds by reading closely key passages from the 1976 lectures at Collè ge de France in which Foucault proposes to rethink racism as a form of biopolitical government. While Foucault's genealogy of racism remains an incomplete project, lacking for example any substantial treatment of European colonialism, the paper proposes to expand the Foucauldian analysis by linking it to the pan-German discourse between 1890 and 1914. Finally, the paper reflects on some of the implications of the Foucauldian analysis, in particular attempts to understand and counter contemporary forms of racism. Foucault's genealogy of racism, in short, shows us the constructedness of our racialized world and challenges us to develop new and more effective strategies to change it.

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Introduction: Thinking after Michel Foucault

Cited by 20 publications

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Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast

Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast

Mechanisms of biopower and neoliberal governmentality in precarious work: Mobilizing the dependent self-employed as independent business owners

Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism

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