“…an active process which joins political rationalities (more or less coherent conceptions of the end of government, constituting a field of legitimate intervention and expressed in a characteristic axiom) with governmental technologies (practices and techniques for the transformation of activities, conditions and subjects in a field of intervention) (Curtis 1995, 575).…”
Section: Shifting From Social Control To Governmentalitymentioning
Police and pastoral power: governmentality and correctional forensic psychiatric nursing Since 1978, the federal inmates of Canada have had access to a full range of psychiatric care within the penitentiary system. Several psychiatric units are now integrated into the correctional services of Canada. This paper presents the results of a grounded theory doctoral study undertaken in a multilevel secured psychiatric ward within the Canadian federal penitentiary system. The author describes and discusses the results of qualitative data that emerged from his fieldwork. The concept of governmentality, as defined by the late French philosopher Michel Foucault, constitutes one of the major theoretical tools that were helpful in analyzing these data. Police and pastoral power, two dimensions of the security apparatus of governmentality, were found to be useful in understanding and characterizing nursing practice caught between the penal and the psychiatric dispositifs. A Foucauldian perspective allows one to understand the manner in which forensic psychiatric nursing is involved in the governance of mentally ill inmates through three forms of power - sovereign, disciplinary and pastoral - which have posited nursing practice as a strategic tool of the correctional services. This research consists of a study of nursing practice in an extreme setting that deserves a radical analysis.
“…an active process which joins political rationalities (more or less coherent conceptions of the end of government, constituting a field of legitimate intervention and expressed in a characteristic axiom) with governmental technologies (practices and techniques for the transformation of activities, conditions and subjects in a field of intervention) (Curtis 1995, 575).…”
Section: Shifting From Social Control To Governmentalitymentioning
Police and pastoral power: governmentality and correctional forensic psychiatric nursing Since 1978, the federal inmates of Canada have had access to a full range of psychiatric care within the penitentiary system. Several psychiatric units are now integrated into the correctional services of Canada. This paper presents the results of a grounded theory doctoral study undertaken in a multilevel secured psychiatric ward within the Canadian federal penitentiary system. The author describes and discusses the results of qualitative data that emerged from his fieldwork. The concept of governmentality, as defined by the late French philosopher Michel Foucault, constitutes one of the major theoretical tools that were helpful in analyzing these data. Police and pastoral power, two dimensions of the security apparatus of governmentality, were found to be useful in understanding and characterizing nursing practice caught between the penal and the psychiatric dispositifs. A Foucauldian perspective allows one to understand the manner in which forensic psychiatric nursing is involved in the governance of mentally ill inmates through three forms of power - sovereign, disciplinary and pastoral - which have posited nursing practice as a strategic tool of the correctional services. This research consists of a study of nursing practice in an extreme setting that deserves a radical analysis.
“…They have also perplexed or irritated others, who have seen them as arcane or anaesthetizing : 82-6; but see also Curtis, 1995;Froud et al, 1998; (p. 28) McKinlay & Pezet, 2010). In this chapter, we have attempted to distil what many have seen of value in Foucault's writings, while seeking also to dispel some of the misconceptions surrounding his work, which may have put off those who would otherwise have found it to be of value.…”
and KeywordsThis chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking 'why' type questions to 'how' type questions; second, a concern with subjectivity that discards the ethical polarization of subject and object in favour of an analysis of the historically varying ways in which the capacities and attributes of subjects are constituted; third, a focus on practices rather than organizations, and a concern to analyse sets or assemblages of practices in terms of how they emerge and how they are stabilized over time; fourth, a focus on rationalities in the plural. It then examines the 'Foucault effect' in organization studies.
“…Governing now implies going beyond the state and its official institutions or figures. Based on Foucault's idea, government can be understood as ‘an active process which joins political rationalities…with governmental technologies’ (Curtis 1995, p. 575); a process in which some ideals of social life set the conditions and create fields for intervention in most aspects of everyday living (Simon 1993, Curtis 1995). The articulation of political rationalities with technologies of government is ensured by a specific form of knowledge (scientific savoir ) and the presence of an expert (nurse) who mediates between the political objectives and the object of intervention (population and individual).…”
Section: Nursing and The Governance Of The Populationmentioning
We explore the limits and potentials of the concept of governmentality to the understanding of nursing as a health profession. This concept can generate a form of critical immobilism, but also promotes a more politically complex understanding of nursing practice.
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