O conceito de biopoder hoje
In: Política & trabalho: revista de ciências sociais, Band 22, Heft 24, S. 27-57
ISSN: 0104-8015
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In: Política & trabalho: revista de ciências sociais, Band 22, Heft 24, S. 27-57
ISSN: 0104-8015
In: Economy and society, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 485-513
ISSN: 1469-5766
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 541-551
ISSN: 1461-7390
Another consequence of this development of bio-power was the growing importance assumed by the action of the norm at the expense of the juridical system of the law... I do not mean to say that the law fades into the back ground or that the institutions of justice tend to disappear, but rather that the law operates more and more as a norm, and that the judicial institution is increasingly incorporated into a continuum of apparatuses (medical, adminis trative, and so on) whose functions are for the most part regulatory. A nor malizing society is the historical outcome of a technology of power centred on life. (Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1, 1979: 144)
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 379
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Economy and society, Band 27, Heft 2-3, S. 151-153
ISSN: 1469-5766
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 427-467
ISSN: 1573-7853
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 427-467
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 778
In: Economy and society, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 1-31
ISSN: 1469-5766
In: Politiikka: Valtiotieteellisen Yhdistyksen julkaisu, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 145
ISSN: 0032-3365
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 171-192
ISSN: 1469-8684
In contemporary western societies the subjective features of social life have become the object and target of a new expertise. The paper addresses the limitations of certain influential approaches to this phenomenon, in particular analyses framed in terms of `social control' and `medicalisation'. It offers an alternative framework based on three elements: firstly, a conception of government as a varying set of rationales and programmes which seek to align socio-political objectives with the activities and relations of individuals; secondly, the constitutive roles of psychological and managerial techniques and vocabularies. These are seen to be crucial in the formation of new ways of thinking about and acting on the social relations of the family and the workplace; thirdly, a notion of subjectivity as a capacity promoted through specific regulatory techniques and forms of expertise. This framework is utilised in the analysis of the Tavistock Clinic and Tavistock Institute of Human Relations to explore some of the fundamental transformations in twentieth century British society. Three `case studies' are provided: the mental hygiene movement in the 1920s and 1930s; the role of psychological expertise in the Second World War; and the links between industrial productivity, group relations and mental health forged in the immediate post-war period.
In: The Cambridge journal of anthropology, Band 32, Heft 1
ISSN: 2047-7716
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 72-95
ISSN: 1469-8684
How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with the experience of structural violence? In this article, focusing on the urban experience, we suggest a perspective on 'everyday life' that can encompass corporeal, mental, relational and social dimensions, which we term 'niche sociality'. First, we use Gibson's niches and affordances to enrich the post-representationalist understanding of human beings as embodied/cultural/environmentally embedded organisms. Second, we enrich Gibson's niches and affordances with theories for 'small-scale' sociality drawn from social practice theory and interaction ritual chains. Third, we illustrate the productivity of these ideas throughout the article, by grounding our conceptual work in empirical examples that analyse the everyday lives and mental life of migrant workers in Shanghai. Niche sociality, we argue, is a way of framing the experience of the everyday, a perspective that could – perhaps should – provoke novel ecosocial studies of adversity.