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The speaker talks about the meaning of studying & states that from school to university is a huge & decisive step. Some have only recently finished high school & for others the end of school dates further back. Many have come to Leipzig & it is the first time they will live without their parents, maybe happy to be alone. Academic studies are arduous, confusing, often frustrating. Academic studies are also a wonderful phase in life & an intellectual adventure. He congratulates the new students on their decision & welcomes them to the University of Leipzig & the institute for political science. E. Sanchez

War requires efficient weapons, transport, & communication systems as well as reliable soldiers & producers of armament products. Historically, conscientious objection to military service was based on religious beliefs rather efforts to hinder the execution of war, though this association began to loosen toward the end of the 19th & through the 20th century. This process of individualization & secularization was paralleled by a process of politicization, both by the state & by pacifist & antimilitary groups. The replacement of man through machines, no later than with the development of the atom bomb, made total war without total mobilization of society possible, & while many nations maintained a general military service during the Cold War, civil options to military service began to be legally introduced. In Germany, the right to conscientious objection is constitutionally anchored, & proved to be compatible with the existing demands on military organizations while also serving to filter out unwilling parties who might throw "sand in the gears" of expensive equipment, leading as in other nations to a professionalization of the military. While efforts continue to make conscientious objection a human right, conscientious objection & the fight against war & its preparation have less to do with one another than ever. L. Reed

Empowerment is both a value orientation & an organizing principle for helping people to gain mastery over their lives. Since its emergence in the 1970s it has become a key element as well of participatory strategies for organizations & communities as of personal growth programs & is applied to a variety of topics & fields, eg, community psychology, social work, education, grassroots movements, development cooperation, & human resource management. While reconstructing the heterogeneous roots of the concept & analyzing the inherent theory of power, its immanent anthropological & psychological assumptions, & its methods, the paper outlines the specific rationality & the paradoxes of this contemporary technology of citizenship. 64 References. Adapted from the source document.

How-to books about personality coaching & self-improvement design a comprehensive model of the neoliberal subject: the enterprising self. Significantly, those manuals for successfully marketing "Ego & Co" often rely on feminist & leftist arguments. Drawing on Michel Foucault's works on modern governmentality & Louis Althusser's concept of interpellation, the first part of the paper traces the contours of this figure. The second part studies women's guides to success & sketches out in which ways the female entrepreneur of her self differs from her male counterpart. 41 References. Adapted from the source document.

From Foucault's lectures at the College de france to studies of governmentality : an introduction / Ulrich Brockling, Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke -- Relocating the modern state : governmentality and the history of political ideas / Martin Saar -- Constituting another Foucault effect : foucault on states and statecraft / Bob Jessop -- Governmentalization of the state: Rousseau's contribution to the modern history of governmentality / Friedrich Balke -- Government unlimited : the security dispositif of illiberal governmentality / Sven Opitz -- The right of government : torture and the rule of law / Susanne Krasmann -- Foucault and frontiers : notes on the birth of the humanitarian border / William Walters -- Beyond Foucault : from biopolitics to the government of life / Thomas Lemke -- Coming back to life : an anthropological reassessment of biopolitics and governmentality / Didier Fassin -- The birth of lifestyle politics : the biopolitical management of lifestyle diseases in the United states and Denmark / Lars Thorup Larsen -- Biology, citizenship, and the government of biomedicine : exploring the concept of biological citizenship / Peter Wehling -- Human economy, human capital : a critique of biopolitical economy / Ulrich Brockling.