Foucault's Dispositif and the City

Pløger, John

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“…Configurational studies focus on how space affects our social life, the way we interact with others, the greater or lesser opportunities we have to gather in specific places, and strategies of surveillance and control we have over each other [20,21]. According to Reference [22], it was through cities that societies developed ideas about disciplining life through space. In this sense, space can be considered as part of a heterogeneous ensemble (Foucault's dispositif ) consisting of discourses, institutions, laws, and philosophical and moral propositions, aiming at regulating and ordering acts and shaping relations.…”

Section: Urban Segregation and Spatial Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Segregation and Socio-Spatial Interactions: A Configurational Approach

Machado

Maraschin

2018

Urban Science

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Abstract:Urban segregation is an inherent feature of cities and becomes a problem when excluding or hindering certain groups from accessing services, activities and spaces. In Brazil, segregation by social class is dominant in the structure of cities and public policies rarely address urban configuration as part of the segregation problem. This work addresses segregation with a shift in emphasis from traditional housing segregation to segregation as the restraint of socio-spatial interactions, thus including other facets of the phenomenon that have not yet been properly explored and seeking new spatially relevant metrics. This paper aims to present a methodology of segregation analysis based on configurational models and develop an empirical application in a Brazilian city. Representing the probabilities of interaction between different socio-economic groups in public spaces, a configurational model was used, addressing retail-residence spatial relationship. The attributes of population size, household income and number of retail establishments were considered. The results allowed identifying the probabilistic residence-retail trajectories for high and low income groups, providing a first measure of spatial segregation. The conclusions seek to highlight the importance of configurational approaches for segregation studies, as well as to show potentialities and limits of this methodology.

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Section: Urban Segregation and Spatial Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Segregation and Socio-Spatial Interactions: A Configurational Approach

Machado

Maraschin

2018

Urban Science

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“…By focusing on how diffuse forms of control inform popular mentalities (Pløger, 2008) and by expanding the concept of government beyond the classically conceived 'State', it advances a more subtle understanding of how a variety of influences emanating from an array of sources shape individual and communal behaviour (Certomà, 2015;Huxley, 2006). Nonetheless, to date such work remains largely focused on the analytics of power, rather than on the ethical questions.…”

Section: That Guidementioning

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Morality, power and the planning subject

Lennon

Fox-Rogers

2016

Planning Theory

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Ethical issues are at the heart of planning. Thus, planning theory has long displayed an interest in debating both the ethical justification for planning and how the activity of planning can be rendered more ethically sensitive. However, comparatively little attention has been shown to how the very constitution of the planner as a 'moral subject' may be ethically problematic for planning practice. This paper addresses this lacuna through an engagement with the philosophy of Michel Foucault. In contrast to how his work is normally applied, this paper accords with Foucault's own direction that his later examination of ethics be used as a lens through which to read his earlier analysis of power and knowledge. Accordingly, the paper first outlines Foucault's innovative reinterpretation of how power and knowledge operate in society before setting this within his novel re-conception of ethics. This theoretical exposition is then employed to interpret material drawn from in-depth qualitative interviews with twenty planning officers working in a range of different contexts.The paper subsequently employs Foucault's ethically informed reading of power and knowledge to identify ethical issues arising from the approaches used by practitioners to justify their planning activities. The paper concludes by suggesting how such issues can be resolved.

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“…The terminology of dispositifs has been variously translated in the sociological literature as either as 'apparatus', 'tools and devices' (Rabinow 2003) or purposefully designed systems (Caborn 2007) -referring to the institutionalisation of praxis through the heterogeneous ensemble of discursive practices, actions and objects, and the system of relations that are established between these elements (Pløger 2008;Jäger 2001). In essence dispositif encompasses the materiality implicit within social discourse, directly linking it back to specific, social practices -whereby speech acts, thoughts and shared systems of knowledge are dialectically related to non-discursive behaviours and actions (praxis).…”

Section: Materiality and The Strategic Relational Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structure, agency and post-Fukushima nuclear policy: an alliance-context-actantiality model of political change

Cotton

2014

Journal of Risk Research

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The Fukushima Daichii nuclear disaster has radically reshaped domestic Japanese energy policy, political economy and citizen-state relations within a very short time period. This destabilised period of post-Fukushima nuclear policy is considered in meta-theoretical terms, drawing upon the work of Colin Hay in describing a Punctuated Evolution model of stability and change. This in turn, draws upon the concepts of structure and agency, and the material and ideational. I assess and apply Jessop and Hay's Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) to resolving these issues, with reference to the Fukushima disaster throughout. The ontological weaknesses of the SRA are discussed, namely the weak conceptualisation of 'the material', leading to the construction of a new hybrid model. Hay's concept of Structure-StrategyAgency is augmented into one of Alliance-Context-Actantiality; drawing upon concepts from Actor Network Theory to better articulate the role of artefacts, physical and material processes in influencing stability and change in risk politics.Key words: Fukushima, nuclear energy, Strategic Relational Approach, Actor Network Theory. Structure, agency and post-Fukushima nuclear policy: an Alliance-Context-Actantiality model of political change AbstractThe Fukushima Daichii nuclear disaster has radically reshaped domestic Japanese energy policy, political economy and citizen-state relations within a very short time period. This destabilised period of post-Fukushima nuclear policy is considered in meta-theoretical terms, drawing upon the work of Colin Hay in describing a Punctuated Evolution model of stability and change. This in turn, draws upon the concepts of structure and agency, and the material and ideational. I assess and apply Jessop and Hay's Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) to resolving these issues, with reference to the Fukushima disaster throughout. The ontological weaknesses of the SRA are discussed, namely the weak conceptualisation of 'the material', leading to the construction of a new hybrid model. Hay's concept of Structure-StrategyAgency is augmented into one of Alliance-Context-Actantiality; drawing upon concepts from Actor Network Theory to better articulate the role of artefacts, physical and material processes in influencing stability and change in risk politics.

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Foucault's Dispositif and the City

Cited by 83 publications

References 15 publications

Urban Segregation and Socio-Spatial Interactions: A Configurational Approach

Urban Segregation and Socio-Spatial Interactions: A Configurational Approach

Morality, power and the planning subject

Structure, agency and post-Fukushima nuclear policy: an alliance-context-actantiality model of political change

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