promoting the economic development of the country and the welfare of people. Application of governmentality also exists in current education system; a series of management strategies is applied for controlling the education of students, this is not only simply from the government authority, but based on the globalized competition in education. In this essay, I will be discussing how Michel Foucault’s governmentality is implicated in Hong Kong teacher education. Govern as a verb, it must involved both
Biopower is a normative force employed on populations. Its main concern is the controlling of abnormalities and accounting or eliminating of random cases in order to maintain a normal population. The term biopower is highly associated with the French philosopher Michael Foucault. Foucault believed the government introduced a technology known as biopower to manage populations in the 18th century. The foundations of biopower lie in disciplinary power. Where disciplinary power trains the action of bodies
1) Sickness is different from disease as sickness refers to a social or cultural concept of a disease/illness while disease is the biological definition of it. An example of an sickness is “Qaug dab peg” a Hmong sickness that occurs when the soul leaves the body resulting in seizures. An example of a disease is epilepsy a neurological condition that causes the body to have random seizures. Both examples are of the same disease, but one is how the culture views it while the other is how biology views
Assess Neoliberalism as the contemporary mode of liberal governmentality Neoliberalism is a rather broad and general concept referring to an economic model that rose prominence in the 1980s. It is identified into three different manifestations such as an ideology, a mode of governance, and a policy package. Neoliberalism has been constructed upon the classical liberal ideal of the self-regulating market, whereas it is regarded not just as an economic or political theory but as an ideology and hegemonic
Based on Foucault’s idea of governmentality, Bartky (1997) poses the technique embedded in body discipline needs to be examined with the interconnection between the modern patriarchy, female identity and subjectivity. As the “style of the flesh,” femininity is accomplished through internalization
government-sponsored developmental programs that belong to different epochs, the intension is to formulate a perspective that might give us a reason to rethink these characterizations. In exploring the markings of modern power, Michel Foucault coined the term “governmentality” – a concept meant to open up enquiry into the myriad of more or less calculated and systematic thoughts and actions that seek to shape, regulate or manage the way people conduct themselves by acting upon their hopes, circumstances and environment
Criticism to the policy and practice responses Risk management and risk analysis usually used technical-scientific for scientific evidence which can be calculated and measured through effective methods to deter the risk (Lupton, 2013). Agencies can use risk assessment such as “Singapore Prison Short Risk Scale” to predict offenders rate of recidivism and can have risk knowledge of the offenders to categorise them under low, moderate or high risk so that suitable rehabilitation center can be allocated
pursue his own interest of expanding his own power and value. Titus, as homo oeconomicus, is willing to violate ethical and moral rules – those that forbid marriage between parent and child – in order to pursue his interest. In their universe, the governmentality is one in which the proper conduct is one that is economic and unethical. The acceptable conduct is one that allows all subjects to increase
Michel Foucault’s study of the prison in his seminal work, Discipline and Punish, paved the way with strong a foundation for contemporary criminologists interested in the field of surveillance studies and governmentality. In this foundation, Foucault had posited several crucial ideas and thoughts about the emergence of prison and its relationship with the larger society body. This essay seeks to provide a clear understanding of the key themes and ideas of the Foucauldian perspective about prisons
Question two: To begin with, criminal justice is a system that is designed to maintain social control, which means it is a necessary aspect of every society since “Laws are the conditions under which independent and isolated men united to form a society” (Beccaria, 1764: 16). In order words, crime control deals with the methods that are taken by a society to reduce its crime. As a matter of fact, there are various crime control strategies from community policing to risk assessments. In addition
Foucault’s concepts of power, discipline and governmentality are fundamental for understanding media and is a unique theory about media practises. Foucault demonstrates how reality TV is conducted and played out, such as the reality TV programme Big Brother. Big Brother expresses how surveillance is used to discipline citizens through the ‘public gaze’. Foucault’s approach to reality TV is distinguishable to alternative approaches, such as critical political economy. Political economy is the theory
McKeown’s book significantly traces the enforcement of the bio-power on the national border control system against the background of the expansion of capitalist global order, and thus further debunks that the seemingly neutral face of modern international migration is a discursive and institutional mask for coloniality. His arguments keep reminding me of previous insights on our modern world by thinkers like Foucault, Walter Mignolo, and Lisa Lowe, who all stay vigilant to the progressive and emancipatory
involved in the pilot but not a focus of the local authority. Disappointingly the pilot changed direction and integrated services moved away from the day-to-day school business. I believe this is yet another example of Foucault’s description of governmentality, changing the minds of people of the time. My trained support staff continued the early identification process through the use of the CAF but they were no longer invited in the same way to join the multi agency meetings. I consider that this
Book Review The politics of cultural work. Mark Banks. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. 228pp. Hardcover, £74.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-01921-8 Mark Banks is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Before, he was Reader in Sociology at The Open University and Senior Lecture in Cultural Studies and Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (University of Leicester, n.d.). With academic background both in sociology and cultural studies, Banks has been
The idea of the spectacle referred to in Leo Chavez’ “The Latino Threat” is discussed in correlation to concerns over the immigration of Latinos into the United States and the discourses they create. One spectacle in the Latino Threat Narrative are the controversial cases of organ transplants for immigrants, such as that of Jesica Satillan, the recipient of a “bungled transplant,” that became widespread through the large volume of media attention and public opinion they generated. These cases raised
to surveillance theory are needed. Surveillance theory cannot ignore the panopticon but it can surely move beyond it” (12). The direction as to where to turn is still an ongoing debate. Some have not strayed far and have turned to Foucault’s governmentality, others have turned to an Orwellian model, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Zizek, Arendt and Kant to name a few. This paper will turn to Henri Lefebvre and his book Production of Space as Lefebvre has become in vogue in surveillance theory and later in
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, anthropologist Seth Homes writes about how the global market, migration and racism intersect and affect farmworkers and their health. Farmworkers are caught in the web of the global market which involves not only the undocumented worker, but the consumer whom wants low prices, the farmers whom hire undocumented workers for low-wages, and farmworkers whom suffer and accept the work. He studies Triqui Indian farm workers lives and migration from Oaxaca, Mexico to agricultural
The uncertainty of the nation-state's continued viability in light of the many effects of globalization has led to a large amount of dialogue on the subject. In particular, aspects of the global economy are frequently referenced to when discussing possible decreases in power. Some of the primary trends are increased levels of FDI, the growing amount of production lines that cross borders, influences of technology and the internet, and increasingly global flows of labor. These have certainly made
People tend to be less conscious of how they daily use their bodies to express gender and how their bodies generate their identities. Dieting, makeup, nail polishing, wearing high-heels and body movements are one of the examples of the body self-disciplines, which the female unconsciously performs as a part of their gender identity every day. Foucault wrote that identity is a form of subjugation and exercising the power upon individual or society. As a part of identity, gender identity can be considered
To start of the first short essay I will start to compare and contrast the criminological theory that evaluates six differences between Radical and Orthodox. “Radical criminology is defined as a method that has been described of the meaning of the effects of the behavior of the individual that may or may not resolve in criminal behavior due to the effect of social identities”(Lynch &Michalowski,p.26). “Radical criminology has the various effects of economic influence that may possibly lead to an