Governmentality

What about interactions? Interactions are about events that mold us as individuals in today’s society. It is about dealing with people in every aspect of our lives. These interactions could help us move up or down the social groups that we affiliate with, and improve our standards of living. My interpretation of intersectionality is that it affects relations between all manner of individuals and how they identify themselves. Whether you are black, white, or other, and whatever gender you may…

four continents via John Stewarts Mill’s liberalism and writings of free trade and their influence on British interest in China. British occupation of China demonstrates a lessened desire for land, but an increased interest in “a new imperial governmentality, more involved in achieving and managing the biopolitical circulation of goods and peoples in an expanded international market,” (Lowe 132). British occupation of China also lead to a number of new methods of subjection such as controlling…

Youth Shelter” (SYS) over the course of one year in Ontario. In the introduction of the book, Nicholas outlines the main points of her research that took place at SYS. She discussed how she adopted the term “youth work” from the book and how governmentality helped gear her study. In each chapter Nicholas does a great job ending it with a clear overview of what points she was trying to make in the chapter and also her thoughts on those points. Chapter one is one of the strongest areas in the…

The book Anti Politics machine is a Foucauldian critique in development. James Ferguson describes different stages of development programs that took place in a small landlocked country called Lesotho completely surrounded by South Africa. It has a population of 2 million where 40% of them live below International Poverty line of US . Thaba-Tseka is a district in Lesotho and its capital Camptown is the only town in the district. Same as it is historically and geographically isolated, the Third…

What is an Assessment Tool? The early year of children’s development is an important time for the growth of children’s brain growth and the opportunity in maximizing children learning in the different developmental domain i.e. physical, intellectual, emotional and social. Poor quality child care is of a concern as children requires responsive and simulating environment from the caregiver; this in turn helps them to enhance their social, cognitive and language development (Bronfenbrenner &…

It is widely believed that creative and media organisations should loosely control employees during the creative production process by offering them a certain level of creative autonomy, but the these organisations should tightly monitor and manage the distribution and reproduction process of creative products (Hesmondhalgh, 2009). Recently, academic interest in cultural work and creative labour has increased, but the concept of creative autonomy remains largely dependent on the images of…

The study of young people and ‘risk taking’ may also be useful in providing explanations for individual’s choice to engage in certain behaviours deemed as risky and irrational. Lyng’s concept of edgework has been useful in understanding young individual’s choice to engage in high-risk activities. The term edgework was borrowed from a journalist named Hunter S. Thompson, who used the term to describe a variety of unruly human behaviours (Lyng 1990, 855). The concept was organised by Lyng into…

RESEARCH QUESTION Consider how Canadian colonial policy has affected Aboriginal sovereignty in the post-confederation Canada and modern day Canada; examine factors that influenced the right to exercise these sovereignty claims through a Foucauldian lens considering race and racialization. METHODOLOGY I will be evaluating my question as a within-case comparison, looking that the differences over time, in this instance post-confederation Canada (1867) and modern day Canada…

Stride: Discourse and Race in Baltimore A Baltimore Program called Stride, nestled within the Center for Urban Families, seeks to support urban communities around employment and parenthood, predominantly fathers and ex-prisoners. I’ll be using Foucault and Racial Formation Theory as a lens to determine how power is at work within this program and at large, as well as their boundaries these theories may have. Understanding Programs like Stride and their effects on communities of color, primarily…

Foucault claims that the state is at the centre of modern racism, believing other conceptions of racism are more suited to earlier eras. According to Foucault, modern states exercise their power by administrating life; in contrast to previous centuries, these states are preoccupied with life itself, rather than death. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault attributes the term ‘biopower’ to this idea, meaning states now have the “the right to ‘make’ live and to ‘let’ die.” It is in opposition…