Response to Jessica A. Stanton’s review of <i>Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social</i>

Owens, Patricia

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“…Beginning with the meeting ground between social welfare and pacification as a form of racialised-sexualised violence. I examine how colonial knowledge and practice have been central to practices of social work or 'social civilisational work' across imperial terrain (Owens 2015). This focus on social work is because of its association with a biopolitics of care which relies on disciplinary, paternalistic and self-regulating strategies (De Beistegui, Bianco and Gracieuse, 2014).…”

Section: Internal Colonialism In the Metropolementioning

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Internal colonisation: The intimate circulations of empire, race and liberal government

Turner

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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This article proposes that 'internal colonisation' provides a necessary lens through which to explore the relationship between violence and race in contemporary liberal government. Contributing to an increasing interest in race in IR, this article proposes that whilst racism remains a vital demarcation in liberal government between forms of worthy/unworthy life, this is continually shaped by colonial histories and ongoing projects of Empire which manifest in the Global North and South in familiar, if not identical ways. In unpacking the concept of internal colonisation and its intellectual history from Black Studies into colonial historiography and political geography, I highlight how (neo)metropolitan states such as Britain, were always active imperial terrain and subjected to forms of colonisation. This recognises how metropole and colonies where bounded together through colonisation and how knowledge and practices of rule were appropriated onto a heterogeneity of racialised and undesirable subjects both within colonies and Britain. Bringing the argument up to date, I show how internal colonisation remains diverse and dispersed under liberal empireenhanced through the war on terror. To do this, I sketch out how forms of 'armed social work' central to counterinsurgency in the Afghanistan and Iraq, is also central to the management of sub-populations in Britain through the counterterrorism strategy Prevent. Treating (neo)metropoles such as the UK as part of imperial terrain helps us recognise the way that knowledge/practices of colonisation have worked across multiple populations and been invested in mundane sites of liberal government. This brings raced histories into closer encounters with the (re)making of a raced present.

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Section: Internal Colonialism In the Metropolementioning

confidence: 99%

Internal colonisation: The intimate circulations of empire, race and liberal government

Turner

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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“…In addressing these questions the article contributes to an increasing body of critical scholarship on domesticity and home which has been inspired by a 'turn' in political geography, international relations and colonial historiography towards analyses of intimacy (Peterson 2017;Stoler 2000), sexuality (Weber 2015;Oswin 2010;Bell & Valentine 1995) and postcolonial government (Legg 2014;Venn 2009;Owens 2015). Working in dialogue with this literature, the article aims to draw on these developments by examining how domesticity/domestication functions as a particular governmental assemblage which promises development and order but does so by distinguishing between worthy/unworthy life.…”

Section: Domesticity and Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Significantly for this article, heteronormativity mobilises distinctions between the good/perverse homosexuals (Weber 2015) but also produces other nonnormative, 'deviant' heterosexuals -single mothers, mixed-race couples, migrant families, workless households (Wilkinson 2014) -whose moral and social 'worth' is also brought into question. Given Foucault's own comments on the centrality of the household (oikos) and family to the historical emergence of biopolitics (Foucault 1998;, it is perhaps unsurprising that studies of governmentality have equally focused on how domesticity has played a central role in liberal rule (Rose 1990;Donzelot 1989;Moore 2013), security (Walters 2004;Darling 2010) and even warfare (Owens 2015;Mitropoulos 2009). Whilst governmental approaches inform/are informed by critical geographies of heteronormativity (Oswin and Olund 2010;Legg 2014;Martin 2012), the emphasis is often on how the household becomes imbricated in the government of modern nation states.…”

Section: Domesticity and Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Walters (2004) concept of domopolitics considers how liberal states are run as a 'domos', where migrants and other 'internal enemies' are often violently excluded from the 'homely nation' (Darling 2011). Patricia Owens (2015) further argues that the modern state is fundamentally an extension of household management (oikonomia). To Owens this means recognising how 'social regulation(s) are best understood in terms of household governance in which the life process of population are managed and domesticated' (Owens 2015 175-176).…”

Section: Domesticity and Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…By reading the TFP through critical geographies of home (Brickell 2012;Grewal 1996;Massey 1992) and intimacy (Oswin 2010;Legg 2014;Stoler 2000), I stress how the TFP relies on racialising and sexualised logics of socio-biological control which were central to colonial rule. The TFP can be viewed as an example of what Patricia Owens (2015) calls 'social-civilizational' work; the 'troubled family' becomes the very site through which civilised order is both undone and regenerated through extensive disciplinary and pedagogical intervention. Reading the TFP in this way contributes to our understanding of the forms of life which are fostered and those which are abandoned under neoliberal rule.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

Turner

2017

Environ Plan D

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This article examines how the UK's Troubled Families Programme (TFP) works as a strategy of domestication which produces and delimits certain forms of 'family life'. Drawing upon critical geographies of home and empire, the article explores how the TFP works to manage the troubled family as part of a longer history of regulating unruly households in the name of national health and civilisation. Viewing the TFP as part of the production of heteronormative order, highlights how the policy remobilises and reconfigures older forms of colonial rule which work to demarcate between civility/savagery, the developable/undevelopable. In examining the postcolonial dimension of neoliberal social policy, the article stresses how the TFP relies on racializing and sexualised logics of socio-biological control borrowed from imperial eugenics. Reading the TFP in this way contributes to our understanding of neoliberal rule. That the troubled family can be either domesticated or destroyed (through benefit sanctions and eviction) equally reveals the extent to which domesticity works as a key site for the production of both 'worthy' and 'surplus' life.

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Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach

Stampnitzky

2023

Theor Soc

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Concerns about a "crisis of expertise" have been raised recently in both scholarship and public debate. This article asks why there is such a widespread perception that expertise is in crisis, and why this "crisis" has posed such a difficult puzzle for sociology to explain. It argues that what has been interpreted as a crisis is better understood as a transformation: the dissolution of a regime of expertise organized around practices of social integration, and its displacement by a new regime organized around practices of expulsion. This article introduces a new framework that envisages expertise as an historically constituted phenomenon, which is the outcome of relational networks (which I call alliances). It argues that this approach, in which expertise(s) are understood as the historically contingent outcome of alliances between knowledge producers, problems, and modes of intervention, can better account for recent shifts. It does this by enabling us to reinterpret what has been described as a general crisis of expertise as, instead, the observed effects of the dissolution of specific alliances of knowledge and practice. This article demonstrates the power of this relational approach through two case studies: the dissolution of the expert alliances organized around the rehabilitative approach to crime and the counterinsurgency approach to irregular political violence. In each these cases, it finds that, as alliances of social expertise, characterized by policies and interventions that attempted to discipline problem actors and integrate them into society, unraveled, they were displaced by new alliances that sought to manage problems through practices of exclusion. The paper concludes with a theory of why the field of sociology has had such difficulty explaining the crisis of expertise.

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Response to Jessica A. Stanton’s review of Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social

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Internal colonisation: The intimate circulations of empire, race and liberal government

Internal colonisation: The intimate circulations of empire, race and liberal government

Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach

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