Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance Versus Everyday Agency

Richmond, Oliver P.

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“…The deployment of UID is also commensurate with longstanding agendas from the World Bank and other international institutions where the construction of technical infrastructure is a vital component of development discourses (Jacobsen ). Yet, as I intend to show below, we can also uncover a more repressive or violent side to the program, what Richmond (:200) calls a moment of exclusion exactly when inclusion is being offered. This exclusion emerges when the rationality of the program meets the technology of enactment, constituting a technological racism bearing much “family resemblance,” in Walter's words, to the sifting logic of biopolitics.…”

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FoucaultianDispositifsas Methodology: The Case of Anonymous Exclusions by Unique Identification in India

Thomas

2014

Int Polit Sociol

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This paper examines the Indian government's Unique Identification (UID) program, the largest digital biometric program in history. UID is intended to provide a new model of security based on a complex interrelation between welfare, identity and rights. The program resembles the kind of liberal governmentality and biopolitical imperative described by Foucault, yet it is also inseparable from the specific socio-historic conditions in India that constitute the strategic need for UID. This paper contributes to an ongoing debate as to the suitability of Foucault's thought for international studies by suggesting a productive line of inquiry: tracing the variance between the rationality of government programs and the technologies of enactment. The paper utilizes three methodological "prescriptives" from Foucault's concept of the dispositif, which are applied to the case study. This paper argues that the concrete application of the program challenges the perception that biometric technologies can guarantee the identity and inclusion of the political subject when applied across different geographies with different sociohistorical conditions. The specific discursive and non-discursive conditions present in the application of UID lead to unexpected political strategies. While India's UID program seeks to augment the population with the biometric identity necessary for consumer citizenship, frugal government and expanded surveillance, those whose bodies are not "readable" by the biometric technology are excluded. It is exactly those subjects that the program aims to help that are most likely to be excluded.

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FoucaultianDispositifsas Methodology: The Case of Anonymous Exclusions by Unique Identification in India

Thomas

2014

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“…Este tipo de enfoques reconocen al sujeto político de la poscolonialidad y se concentran en la política del conflicto y no del gobierno (Jabri, 2013). Los conceptos de agencia y de resistencia ocupan un lugar central en la paz (Richmond, 2010a;Jabri, 2013;Cruz, 2021). Bajo ese mismo lente, Victoria Fontan (2013) cuestiona la estructura epistemológica de la paz, su práctica y su enseñanza, además de las implicaciones que tiene en la vida diaria de la población a la que se supone que sirve.…”

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¿Qué quiere decir la paz? Sociología de los medios en el Acuerdo de La Habana

Corredor-Garcia

2021

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¿Qué quiere decir la paz? Esta pregunta parece ser elemental; sin embargo, es difícil definirla. Esta investigación profundiza el análisis teórico y sociológico de la paz abordando las negociaciones entre el Estado colombiano y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. Se parte del principio de que la paz, lejos de ser un concepto único, contempla una amplia gama de interpretaciones, articulada de manera diferenciada por los actores. Su objetivo es analizar la cobertura mediática de seis periódicos en torno a las negociaciones para determinar el tipo de paz que cada medio esbozó en su línea editorial. Por medio de un análisis de discurso de 568 editoriales, se construyó una tipología con cinco enfoques: securitario, liberal, constructivista, plural y ambiental. La mayoría de análisis en estudios de paz se enfocan en otros actores, excluyendo a los medios. El artículo demuestra que estos exhiben contribuciones sustanciales a los enfoques alternativos de paz.

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Dutch Civil Society: Peace Writ Large

Scholten

2019

Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies

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Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance Versus Everyday Agency

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

FoucaultianDispositifsas Methodology: The Case of Anonymous Exclusions by Unique Identification in India

FoucaultianDispositifsas Methodology: The Case of Anonymous Exclusions by Unique Identification in India

¿Qué quiere decir la paz? Sociología de los medios en el Acuerdo de La Habana

Dutch Civil Society: Peace Writ Large

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