Intelligent Governmentality

Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique

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Governmentality, calculation, territoryÀ

In this paper I discuss Foucault's two recently published courses, Sëcuritë, Territoire, Population and Naissance de la Biopolitique. Foucault notes that he has undertaken a genealogy of the modern state and its different apparatuses from the perspective of a history of governmental reason, taking into account society, economy, population, security, and liberty. In the ``Governmentality'' lectu...

Politicizing Canadian childhood using a governmentality framework.

OVER THE LAST 20 years, historical research has increasingly employed concepts and ideas popularized by the writings of Michel Foucault. For example, many contemporary historians demonstrate familiarity with Foucauldian approaches to concepts like power, knowledge, and government and may eclectically incorporate into their work the analytical techniques of discourse analysis, genealogy, or mora...

Ordering Subjects: Governmentality and Lifelong Learning

Background This paper explores the relationship between changes in governing in contemporary social orders and the significance of lifelong learning for this. Drawing on Foucault’s notions of governmentality and technologies of the self, and concepts derived from actor-network theory, it argues that discourses of lifelong learning act as intellectual technologies through which there is the atte...

Constructing the adult learner - a governmentality analysis