'The birth of bio-politics': Michel Foucault's lecture at the Collège de France on neo-liberal governmentality

Constructions of Professional Subjectivity at the Fine Arts College

“…It would seem that the identification with one's profession (work being something one is rather than something one does) limits the possibility of a politics of work. The structures of the art world thus echo theorizations of postmodern or late-modern society as a period characterized by conditions of insecurity, where individual citizens must manage risk and be responsible for their own lives and welfare (Rose, 1996;Lemke, 2001).…”

Kritiske perspektiver i helsefagene: Utdanning, yrkespraksis og forskning

“…Mot slutten av 1970-årene arbeidet den franske filosofen og historikeren Michel Foucault med ulike sider ved framveksten av det moderne statsstyret og hvordan ulike maktteknologier henger sammen med politiske rasjonalitetsformer (Lemke, 2001). Foucault ville vise hvordan de gradvis mer styringsdyktige statene som vokste fram, fra slutten av 1700-tallet utviklet administrative apparater med institusjoner og instanser for overvåkning og kontroll av byutvikling, sanitaere forhold og befolkningens helsetilstand mellom fødsel og død.…”

“Food Security” versus Cash Transfers: Comparative Analysis of Social Security Approaches in India and Brazil

“…In addition to immediate poverty relief through the provision of monetary resources, the program seeks to break the "cycle of poverty" by encouraging a development of "human capital" amongst low-income Brazilian through both the medical and educational conditions imposed on recipients. To the extent that its governing logic finds an echo within an earlier approach to social welfare, it is oddly from the Ordo-liberal idea of a "social market economy": that being a "notion of a market that was constantly supported by political regulations and had to be flanked by social intervention" [15]. The Indian NSFA's central notion is that markets, such as they exist, are not sufficient to pro-vide food security, and therefore the state must intervene to both actively set food prices and to directly provide food aid.…”

“…Moreover, an approach which would recognize the best aspects of each policy program could be instrumental in designing a food security policy which reconciles institutional and individual problem levels. As it is "not possible to study the technologies of power without an analysis of the political rationality underpinning them" [15], this paper will examine the political logics which informed both approaches, with an eye to seeing how these were played out in their concrete effects as implemented.…”