governmentality

Adaptation, Resistances, and Identity of Penitentiary Officers in Argentina Pavilion-Churches

Mauricio Manchado, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Tags: governmentality, identity, jail, religión, resistances

The Insubordination of Subdued Knowledges and the Emergence of Other Epistemologies

Juan Carlos Sánchez-Antonio, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México

Tags: biopolitics, coloniality of power, decolonization, geopolitics of knowledge, governmentality, Michel Foucault

Decolonizing the Census. The Social Division of Social Sciences and the Locus of their Tools in Colonial Genealogy

Pablo Estévez Hernández, Universidad de La Laguna, España

Tags: biopolitics, Census, coloniality, governmentality, Modernity, nation-state, social sciences

Modernity and Governmentality: From Rural to Oil-Producing Venezuela

Luis R. Delgado J. , Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela

Tags: biopolitics, governmentality, Modernity, petro-State

Biopolitics and communalization. A Philosophical and Ethnographic Approach

Leticia Katzer, Conicet / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

Tags: biopolitics, commonalization, ethnic trajectories, ethnopolitics, governmentality, subjectivation

Bodies, Subjectivities, and Power. Biopolitics and Urban Aesthetics in Medellín

Hilderman Cardona Rodas, Universidad de Medellín, Colombia
Nora Margarita Vargas Zuluaga, Universidad de Medellín, Colombia

Tags: biopolitics, bodies, governmentality, Medellín, neo-baroque, urban aesthetics

A history of spaces, a history of powers: towards a genealogy of public space notion

Jorge Eliécer Martínez P. jmartinezp2@gmail.com Universidad de la Salle, Colombia Abstract: This paper addresses the notion of public space. Following Michel Foucault’s statement that “making a history of spaces would be, at the same time, making a history of powers”, a genealogy of this notion is presented, which accounts for a history of the diverse […]

Tags: biopolitics, governmentality, heterotopies, power, space

Modernity and difference

Eduardo Restrepo eduardoa.restrepo@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Abstract: This paper aims to call into question the way modernity has been understood, not only by its advocates, but also but those who think its theoretical and political practice must go through a questioning. The core argument in this paper is that modernity has never been, nor could […]

Tags: eventualization, governmentality, hyperreal modernity, Modernity

Analytics of the modern: An introduction

Jonathan Xavier Inda jxinda@illinois.edu University of Illinois Abstract: This text posits the relevance of addressing modernity as an ethnographic object, that is, to examine it from situated discourses and practices. Such an ethnography draws on a Foucaultian approach with governmentality as a key category. From this perspective, an approach is put forward examining three analytical […]

Tags: anthropologies of modernity, ethnography, Foucault, governmentality, Modernity

Foucault —liberalism and criticism to political philosophy

Mario Domínguez Sánchez mario2963@gmail.com Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España Abstract: In avoiding modern and contemporary political philosophy’s dicomotized abstractions, Michel Foucault has not intended to rebuild a transcendental, rational and normative whole, or rationally legitimate values, but to study the practices themselves in a given society, and the changes they generate. Stressing the individual’s self-shaping […]

Tags: governmentality, liberalism, political philosophy, power, subjectivity

(De)colonial symptoms: Grosfoguel as a reader to Foucault

Diego A. Soto Morera, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Tags: colonial technologies, Genealogy, governmentality, power, racism

Foucaultian inflections on control society

Iván Torres Apablaza, Universidad Andrés Bello

Tags: Control society, discipline, governmentality, neoliberalism, security device