The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention

Vos, Jan De

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-50557-6_7

The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and Its Discontents 2016

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50557-6_7

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The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention

Jan De Vos

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“…Rather, the reader is reminded that this paper adopts a historicized perspective that assumes no such distinction or independence between affective processes and intention or meaning. For both an overview of the turn to affect and some of its problematic assumptions, see Leys (2011) andDe Vos (2016).…”

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The therapisation of social justice as an emotional regime: implications for critical education

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2016

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to sketch out what one can see as the emerging “therapeutic turn” in a wide range of areas of contemporary social life including education, especially in relation to understandings of vulnerability and social justice, and then poses the question of what emotional regime has accompanied the emergence of this “therapization” movement, making emotional life in schools the “object-target” for specific technologies of power. Design/methodology/approach The psychologization of social problems has been very much in evidence in the development of educational policies and practices – an approach which not only pathologizes social problems as individual psychological deficiencies or traits, but also obscures the recognition of serious structural inequalities and ideological commitments that perpetuate social injustices through educational policy and practice. In the present paper, the author adopts a different perspective, that of the history, sociology and politics of emotions and affects to show how and why the therapization of social justice is part of the conditions for the birth of particular forms of biopower in schools. Findings There is an urgent need to expose how psychologized approaches that present social justice as an individualizing responsibility are essentially depoliticizing vulnerability by silencing the shared complicities. It is argued, then, that it is crucial to pay attention to the political and structural dimensions of vulnerability. Originality/value Attending to the emotional regime of therapization of social justice has important implications to counter forms of biopower that work through processes of normalization.

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