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Baraka_Guru · 07-15-2007, 05:50 AM

I always liked this one, mainly because it creeps me out a bit.

governmentality

A concept instigated by Michel Foucault (G. Burchell, C. Gordon, and P. Miller, 1991) to encompass the mentalities, rationalities, and techniques used by governments, within a defined territory, actively to create the subjects (the governed), and the social, economic, and political structures, in and through which their policy can best be implemented. In other words, the way governments try to produce the citizen best suited to fulfil those governments' policies. The current teaching of ‘citizenship’ in UK schools is a good example.

"governmentality." A Dictionary of Geography. Oxford University Press, 1992, 1997, 2004. Answers.com 15 Jul. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/governmentality

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Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	I always liked this one, mainly because it creeps me out a bit. governmentality A concept instigated by Michel Foucault (G. Burchell, C. Gordon, and P. Miller, 1991) to encompass the mentalities, rationalities, and techniques used by governments, within a defined territory, actively to create the subjects (the governed), and the social, economic, and political structures, in and through which their policy can best be implemented. In other words, the way governments try to produce the citizen best suited to fulfil those governments' policies. The current teaching of ‘citizenship’ in UK schools is a good example. "governmentality." A Dictionary of Geography. Oxford University Press, 1992, 1997, 2004. Answers.com 15 Jul. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/governmentality __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot