Regicide and resistance: Foucault's reconceptualization of power

Flohr, Mikkel

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2016.1145590

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“…5. This seems very much to be in line with Foucault's focus on the (constitutive) relation between power, struggle, critique and resistance (Foucault, 1982(Foucault, : 794, 1998; see also Flohr, 2016;Hansen, 2016).…”

Section: Orcid Idsupporting

confidence: 69%

Governmentality and Statification: Towards a Foucauldian Theory of the State

Jessen

Eggers

2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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This article contributes to governmentality studies and state theory by discussing how to understand the centrality and importance of the state from a governmentality perspective. It uses Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Michel Foucault’s governmentality approach as a point of departure for re-investigating Foucault as a thinker of the state. It focuses on Foucault’s notion of the state as a process of ‘statification’ which emphasizes the state as something constantly produced and reproduced by processes and practices of government, administration and acclamation. As a result of this, the state appears as a given entity which is necessary for the multiplicity of governmental technologies and practices in modern society to function. Only by reference to the state can governmental practices be effective and legitimized. Finally, the article conceptualizes the centrality of the state through Foucault’s (preliminary) notions of the state as a ‘practico-reflexive prism’ and a ‘principle of intelligibility’.

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Section: Orcid Idsupporting

confidence: 69%

Governmentality and Statification: Towards a Foucauldian Theory of the State

Jessen

Eggers

2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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“…Studies on biopedagogies at school often respond to this question by showing its undesirable outcomes or side effects. In this article, however, I take a different approach, and show how resistances to the top–down medical model on nutrition emerge from various sides, and are indeed an integral part of the model: in other words, resistance is always intrinsic to the exercise of power (Flohr 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…But, at the same time, tactics oppose strategy, the former being “an art of the weak,” that is to say, a space of autonomy and agency that individuals subjected to the meal policy carve out within the imposed strategy. Therefore, if the top–down model gives shape to a strategy based on nutritional science, tactics are forms of strategic reversibility and “the adaptive response and the unpredictable outcome of the exercise of power” (Flohr 2016).…”

Section: Politics Of the School Mealmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Holy Gram: Strategy and Tactics in the Primary School Canteen

Oncini

2017

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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In this ethnography of three Italian primary school canteens I use de Certeau’s concepts of strategy and tactics to examine how the biopolitical construction of a healthy meal is subjected to resistances by parents, teachers, children, and cooks. I first illustrate how the top–down model on nutrition stems from global and national organizations, is deciphered and transformed by local agencies, and eventually becomes a healthy meal, perfectly balanced in its nutrients. Later, I show how subjects involved in its reception challenge the top–down model and develop intentional tactics that withstand the scientific knowledge of the nutritionists that construct the menu: parents and teachers contest the experts’ authority, cooks cheat on grams, children eat more (or less) than they should. Taking a different approach from studies that highlight the undesirable and coercive outcomes of biopower, I argue that in these school canteens subjects are not trapped by biopedagogies but deploy their agencies by questioning, eluding, and even subverting the rationale of the school meal.

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“…For Hayward and Schuilenburg ( 2014 ) resistance serves as a “solvent of doxa, to continuously question obviousness and common sense, in order to create a new image of thought, and thus to remind us that things do not have to stay the way they are” (34). For Flohr ( 2016 ) resistance “occupies a threshold between contemporary configurations of power and the possibility that things might be otherwise” (50). In developing this perspective Lilja ( 2021 ) has made a substantial contribution essentially arguing that through repetition and over time, resistance can (and has) “produce[d] new and emerging realities,” new ways of thinking, new ways of viewing old problems while promoting a different and better vision for the future.…”

Section: Resistance As Constructivementioning

confidence: 99%

How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being

Essex

2022

Bioethical Inquiry

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Resistance involves a range of actions such as disobedience, insubordination, misbehaviour, agitation, advocacy, subversion, and opposition. Action that occurs both publicly, privately, and day-to-day in the delivery of care, in discourse and knowledge. In this article I will demonstrate how resistance plays an important (but often overlooked) role in shaping health and well-being, for better and worse. To show how it can be largely productive and protective, I will argue that resistance intersects with health in at least two ways. First, it acts as an important counterbalance to power; undermining harmful policies, disobeying unfair instructions, challenging rights abuses, confronting those who would otherwise turn a blind eye and even holding ourselves to account when simply accepting the status quo. Second, and beyond being oppositional, resistance is a constructive, productive force, that is fundamental to imagining alternatives; new and better futures and perhaps most fundamentally resistance is cause for hope that we are not resigned to the status quo. While there are numerous examples of how resistance has been employed in service of health and well-being, resistance is not always rational or productive, it can also harm health. I will briefly explore this point. Finally, I will offer some reflections on the intersections of power and health and why this makes resistance both distinct and important when it comes to how it shapes health and well-being.

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Regicide and resistance: Foucault's reconceptualization of power

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

Governmentality and Statification: Towards a Foucauldian Theory of the State

Governmentality and Statification: Towards a Foucauldian Theory of the State

The Holy Gram: Strategy and Tactics in the Primary School Canteen

How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being

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