Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault.

Foucault, Michael; Martin, Luther H.; Gutman, Huck; Hutton, Patrick H.

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“…As such, the socialization and self-governance under the new interface's intervention differed from the self-cultivation through social training, control, and self-surveillance or introspection to conform to a "better" self defined by the school, family, or collective culture. It is closer to self-determination, going beyond the pure "discipline" sense (Foucault, 1988).…”

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Short-Video Platform and Intrinsic Motivation of Rural Adolescents: A Comparative Case Study on Two Chinese Middle School Classes

Sun

Meng

2023

Youth & Society

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In tracing two Chinese rural middle school classes for 3 years, this study found the positive impact of adopting the algorithm-based mobile short video platform Douyin on rural adolescents’ intrinsic motivation. The application’s broad adoption has reshaped the social processes supporting adolescent users’ intrinsic motivation and spontaneous pursuit of life possibilities. In the online interaction based on algorithms, the rural adolescents discover and govern themselves during the algorithms-driven exploration and expression; they also conduct informational and emotional reciprocity with an algorithmic collectivity emerging from clustering technologies. In the offline interaction with the living community, the platform-state digital economy agenda has intervened and coordinated the local cultural attitudes towards youth development with an entrepreneurial solutionism. This study adds to the previous less empirically addressed issue of the rising algorithmic short video service and intrinsic motivation, and puts forward an ecological explanation concerning the national policy, platform business, and the user’s self-consciousness.

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Short-Video Platform and Intrinsic Motivation of Rural Adolescents: A Comparative Case Study on Two Chinese Middle School Classes

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Meng

2023

Youth & Society

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“…While I was fortunate to have access to counseling as the main "treatment path, " I saw firsthand the spread of the exceedingly popular third generation antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, see Chapter Two below) and watched many of my friends, like myself, weigh their praises against their criticisms. 34 Similarly, I witnessed the rise of psychotherapy in Poland as one of the dominant, though unevenly socially distributed, forms of the "care of the self " (Foucault 1990;Foucault et al 1988).…”

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Working Through What Is. Depression and the Predicament of Reality in Poland

Sokół¹

2023

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This monograph of contemporary Polish depression sheds light on the social, political, and semantic processes that have shaped its meanings, ex- periences, understandings, and treatments. Examining depression’s history in Poland after 1989, the author not only considers the social conditions of clinical practice, but also explores a broader phenomenon of the cultural dynamic of realification (urealnienie) – the socially produced sense of realness of the world around us. The book thus touches upon various aspects of cultural theory while keeping an ethnographic, empirical character.

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“…We interpret Foucault's (1988) definitions of technology of the knowledgeable subjects as being applicable to how RM rationality influences organisational behaviour to which these practices of governmentality are directed (Van Krieken, 1996). Green governmentality reflects how the relationship of accounting as disciplinary technology (such as renewable finance systems of RM for climate change, transparency, and reporting) enables banks and FIs to actively become responsible.…”

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“…However, this relationship can generate certain tensions between the aims of green governmentality and self-governing FIs' conduct. A Foucauldian interpretation allows us to emphasise how current forms of green governmentality can mobilise corporations in ways that foster reflexive and meaningful self-regulation (Foucault, 1988). This suggests a relationship between those who regulate and those who have been impacted by climate change-related reforms.…”

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Green governmentality and climate change risk management: the case of a regulatory reform in Bangladesh

Rana

Lowe

Azam

2022

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PurposeThis study examines green investment reforms carried out in Bangladesh. The reform process curated significant changes by promoting green investment and fostering the adoption of risk management (RM) rationalities. This study’s focus is on revealing changes in behaviour and explaining how RM can act as an effective generator of climate change mitigation practices.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on Foucault's concept of governmentality, the authors apply a “green governmentality” interpretive lens to analyse interviews and documentary evidence, adopting a qualitative case study approach. The authors explore how green governmentality generates RM rationalities and techniques to induce policies and practices within banks and financial institutions (FIs) for climate change mitigation purposes.FindingsThe findings provide valuable insights into the reform process and influence of RM rationalities in the context of environmental concerns. The authors find that the reforms and creation of RM rationalities affect the management of climate mitigation practices within banks and FIs and identify the processes through which the RM techniques are transformed as climate concerns are emphasised. The authors illustrate green governmentality as persuasive strategies, which have generated specific ways of seeing climate change reality and new ways of inserting RM into organisational activities, through the green governmentality effects they created. These reforms made climate change actionable and governable through the production of RM rationalities, supported by accounting conceptualisations and processes.Research limitations/implicationsThe insights from this study can assist with how we act upon questions of climate change from an RM perspective. Governments, policymakers and regulators who develop climate change-related laws, regulations and policies can draw on these insights to help foster green governmentality for climate change mitigation actions informed by RM practices.Originality/valueThis study offers insights into how climate change is not simply a biophysical reality but a site of power-knowledge dynamics where RM rationalities are constructed, and accounting processes are transformed. The authors show the application of RM and accounting efforts to change investment practices and how changes were encouraged and promoted by using regulation as a persuasive force on knowledgeable subjects rather than a repressive or oppressive power. The analytic power of green governmentality can be applied to increase understanding of how RM rationality contribute to the creation of useful conceptualisations of climate change and provide insights into how organisations respond to green governmentality.

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Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault.

Cited by 406 publications

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Short-Video Platform and Intrinsic Motivation of Rural Adolescents: A Comparative Case Study on Two Chinese Middle School Classes

Short-Video Platform and Intrinsic Motivation of Rural Adolescents: A Comparative Case Study on Two Chinese Middle School Classes

Working Through What Is. Depression and the Predicament of Reality in Poland

Green governmentality and climate change risk management: the case of a regulatory reform in Bangladesh

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