07-15-2007, 05:53 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
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 |
Biopower
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Biopower was a term originally coined by French philosopher Michel Foucault to refer to the practice of modern states and their regulation of their subjects through "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations".
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I, also, was enthralled by this notion set forth by Foucault. I am really eager to see the path that this thread takes from here. 
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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