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Paul McIlvenny
McIlvenny, Paul
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Aalborg University
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Julia Zhukova Klausen
Zhukova Klausen, Julia
Julia
Zhukova Klausen
Aalborg University
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Laura Bang Lindegaard
Lindegaard, Laura Bang
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Lindegaard
Aalborg University
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This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of Foucault’s annual lecture series at the <i>Collège de France</i>, scholars have attempted to critically rethink Foucault’s ideas. This is the first volume that attempts to revisit and expand studies of governmentality by connecting it to the theories and methods of discourse analysis. The volume draws on different theoretical stances and methodological approaches including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, dialogic analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, the discourse-historical approach, corpus analysis and French discourse analysis. The volume is relevant to students and scholars in the fields of critical discourse studies, conversation analysis, international studies, environmental studies, political science, public policy and organisation studies.
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New perspectives on discourse and governmentality
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A01
Paul McIlvenny
McIlvenny, Paul
Paul
McIlvenny
2
A01
Julia Zhukova Klausen
Zhukova Klausen, Julia
Julia
Zhukova Klausen
3
A01
Laura Bang Lindegaard
Lindegaard, Laura Bang
Laura Bang
Lindegaard
01
In this comprehensive overview we familiarise readers with Michel Foucault’s
publications that are relevant both to discourse studies and to studies of governmentality.
We review the narrow impact that Foucault’s ideas have had on
discourse studies and summarise the scant literature on discourse and governmentality
across different disciplines. We elucidate the new scholarly understandings
of Foucault’s later work, as well as engage with the debates about
governmentality that have been generated after Foucault. In particular, we give a
thorough assessment of the reverberations of Foucault’s later work on governmentality
to clarify its contemporary relevance for discourse studies. Lastly,
we introduce and contextualise the theoretical, methodological and analytical
innovations in discourse studies to be found in the chapters in this volume,
before concluding on the contributions that the book makes to both discourse
studies and studies of governmentality.
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Part I: Intersecting governmentalities in public discourse
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94
22
Article
4
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Governing citizen engagement
A discourse studies perspective
1
A01
Inger Lassen
Lassen, Inger
Inger
Lassen
2
A01
Anders Horsbøl
Horsbøl, Anders
Anders
Horsbøl
01
This chapter sets out to explore tensions between bottom-up and top-down processes
from a governmentality perspective. Using a discourse studies approach,
we investigate how forms of public participation in a local climate mitigation
project can be viewed as an instance of governmentality in the sense of how
the conduct of groups and individuals is influenced by other forces and how
groups and individuals influence the conduct of others through participation
and involvement. This implies that governmentality is analysed as emerging in
concrete, situated practices. Simultaneously, we investigate how a governmentality
approach may enrich our understanding of public participation, dialogue
and involvement, especially on the complex issue of sustainability and climate
change mitigation.
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.03ban
95
118
24
Article
5
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The discursive intersection of the government of others and the government of self in the face of climate change
The
discursive intersection of the government of others and the government of self in the face of climate change
1
A01
Laura Bang Lindegaard
Lindegaard, Laura Bang
Laura Bang
Lindegaard
01
The chapter demonstrates how empirical discourse analysis can contribute to
the study of two issues of particular significance in recent studies of governmentality.
Firstly, the observation that the relationship between power and
resistance is specifically contradictory, in that resistance marks both a boundary
and a constitutive moment of government, and, secondly, the realisation
that governmentality is somehow intertwined with the continuous becoming
of ethical subjects, or, in other words, with continuously negotiated practices of
subjectivation. The chapter pursues and enforces the theoretical argument that
practices of subjectivation should be understood as an aspect of the unceasingly
negotiated interdependence of power and resistance. This suggests that this
theoretical insight can be fulfilled in empirical research if studies of governmentality
are interconnected with membership categorisation analysis and conversation
analysis. To demonstrate the benefits of this approach, the chapter provides
an in-depth analysis of focus group data from sessions in a small Danish village
in which citizens accomplish the contested discursive intersection of, on the one
hand, a municipal strategy aimed at ‘greening’ the citizens’ transportation conduct
and, on the other hand, the citizens’ attempt to conduct their own conduct.
10
01
JB code
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148
30
Article
6
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The art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters
The
art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters
1
A01
Janne Solberg
Solberg, Janne
Janne
Solberg
01
This chapter uses ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) to investigate
the empirical manifestations of governmentality in vocational rehabilitation
encounters in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. How
can the counsellors’ actions be understood as conducting the conduct of clients
in the setting of vocational rehabilitation? How do the counsellors’ practices,
especially their ways of dealing with client resistance, relate to the core idea of
governmentality as governing, not at the cost of, but through the freedom of
individuals? The chapter analyses the dialogue techniques in six instances in
which the client uses silence and minimal response tokens to resist the counsellor’s
actions. Earlier CA research has suggested counsellors have a rather
unilateral orientation to client resistance. However, this analysis reveals a more
responsive orientation, since it demonstrates how counsellors choose inviting,
non-intrusive action designs in the first place, as well as make adjustments to
the cued client resistance. These practices may be understood as evidencing a
technology of sensibility, co-constituting the client’s agency in situ.
10
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dapsac.66.05hon
149
176
28
Article
7
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Governing governments?
Discursive contestations of governmentality in the transparency <italic>dispositif</italic>
1
A01
Sun-Ha Hong
Hong, Sun-Ha
Sun-Ha
Hong
2
A01
François Allard-Huver
Allard-Huver, François
François
Allard-Huver
01
In a world of controversy and suspicion, transparency promises a ‘virtuous
chain’ of informed citizens, rational deliberation and democratic participation.
In contrast, this essay conceptualises transparency as a Foucauldian dispositif:
a network of discourse, tactics, institutional processes and local subjectivities
which articulates what kinds of actions and statements are admissible and tactically
profitable. Notably, transparency discourse mobilises individual citizens
to audit the state – to govern governments. This becomes the basis upon which
the state and other institutions may legitimise and delegitimise one another
through strategic uses of transparency discourse. We illustrate these processes
through an examination of the ‘Séralini Affair’: a prominent controversy over
GMO, scientific expertise and transparency in France. We analyse transparency
discourse invoked by major stakeholders in the Affair, drawing tools from critical
discourse analysis and French discourse analysis.
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PART II: Discourse, practice and prefigurative governmentalities
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208
30
Article
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Governing safe operations at a distance
Enacting responsible risk communication at work
1
A01
Joel Rasmussen
Rasmussen, Joel
Joel
Rasmussen
01
This chapter argues that today’s organisational risk management, where
employees are to adopt routines for proper self-control, is fruitfully approached
as what Rose and Miller (1992) term governing-at-a-distance. Governing that
relies on internal control and the self-governing capacity of citizens requires
people to be involved in communication that signifies responsible behaviour.
If there is hierarchical monitoring, then it is communication that is supervised
which makes the signifying practices all the more important. While previous
research has demonstrated that an increasing burden of responsibility is placed
on citizens for the risks and health problems they face or envisage, less attention
has been paid to the increased communication requirements this development
involves. Bridging this gap, this chapter investigates how social interaction in
meetings works to facilitate employees to become responsible risk communication
subjects. An intensive discourse analysis of five safety meeting episodes
demonstrates how the responsibilisation of employees’ risk communication
extends questions of (a) form – such as the duration of talk, (b) paper work,
(c) genuineness, (d) contributing on-topic, (e) economisation, and (f) reliability
regardless of illness and place. The study takes inspiration from positioning
analysis (e.g. Bamberg 2005), allowing for a detailed account of the moment-tomoment
process of responsibilisation, something that previous research on risk
management tends to skim over.
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Dialogue and governmentality-in-action
A discourse analysis of a leadership forum
1
A01
Ann Starbæk Bager
Starbæk Bager, Ann
Ann
Starbæk Bager
2
A01
Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen
Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg
Kenneth Mølbjerg
Jørgensen
3
A01
Pirkko Raudaskoski
Raudaskoski, Pirkko
Pirkko
Raudaskoski
01
We explore how dialogue as governmentality-in-action was both overtly
challenged and unintentionally employed in an interdisciplinary leadership
development forum held at a university. We study the forum as a site to explore
Foucault’s understanding of the conduct of conduct combined with Agamben’s
and Deleuze’s proposals to advance and nuance the concept of dispositif. We
compare dispositif with Bakhtin’s and Linell’s notions of dialogicality and
dialogism as sites of centripetal and centrifugal forces with heteroglossia and
orientation to third parties. This methodological move makes it possible to
study dialogue and dispositif as related concepts that are lived out in situated
practices. We employ membership categorisation analysis (MCA) to complement
a multimodal conversation analysis of the opening lecture of the forum to
show the taken-for-granted nature of the setting as a dispositif.
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264
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Diagnosing transnationality
Therapy discourse and psy practices in the ethicalisation of transnational living
1
A01
Julia Zhukova Klausen
Zhukova Klausen, Julia
Julia
Zhukova Klausen
01
The chapter investigates the genealogy of a transnational ethics. That is, in
Foucauldian terms, how transnational living is constructed as an ethical substance,
the modes through which the actors become invited to problematise
their transnational conduct and the telos to which they are impelled to aspire.
Using multimodal discourse analysis, the chapter uncovers the discursive
technologies through which therapeutic practice (as well as the genres and
institutions implicated in it) is employed in using the individual’s relationship to
oneself to exercise and rationalise a transnational ethics. The analysis demonstrates
how discursive practices, dispersed across multiple modalities, participate
in the formation of alliances between diverse regimes of transnational
living, such as computer-mediated transnational spaces, diaspora communities,
national and para-national institutions and professional associations. In doing
so, the analysis makes visible how new agents and authorities become recruited
for administering transnational conduct. The chapter argues that these assemblages
and the transnational ethics made visible through the analysis prime
the mechanisms of transnational governmentality and prepare the basis for a
restrictive morality through which transnational conduct can be regulated.
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294
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Article
12
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Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations
Interactional and categorial practices in the strange case of the United Nathans weapons inspectors
1
A01
Paul McIlvenny
McIlvenny, Paul
Paul
McIlvenny
01
The interactional and categorial practices of a prefigurative protest demonstration
are examined using video recordings that document a theatrical protest
event called “United Nathans weapons inspectors” in February 2003. The chapter
undertakes an analytics of protest to uncover how fields of visibility, forms of
knowledge, technologies and apparatuses, and subjectivities and identities are
negotiated and accomplished collaboratively. Conversation analysis (CA) helps
us document the ways in which fields of visibility and modes of rationality are
sequentially organised. Membership categorisation analysis (MCA) uncovers
the categorial work by which subjectivation is morally accomplished in social
interaction. The chapter shows how CA and MCA can help trace the interactional,
embodied and categorial practices that are endogenous to conducting
the conduct of others and the self, and thus which constitute or contest the
rationalities of governmentality.
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Governmentality through intertextuality
Strategic planning discourse in the administration of tertiary education
1
A01
Derek Wallace
Wallace, Derek
Derek
Wallace
01
In this chapter I analyse texts composed and exchanged within the New Zealand
tertiary education domain in order to explore the “will to govern” (Miller and
Rose 2008: 29) in its contemporary manifestation. Using intertextuality as the
principle framework, the analysis is grounded in a detailed case study of the use
of strategic planning as a technology of government. The investigation reveals
the considerable extent to which governments can govern through textual
means, notwithstanding a tightening of control over the period studied through
changes in regimes of compliance. Notable also in the universities’ enforced
adoption of strategic planning is the extent to which the discursive practices
that characterise strategic planning in a complex, multi-levelled environment
can enhance a liberal rationality of rule.
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352
30
Article
15
01
Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discourse analysis
A case study on urban security discourses and practices
1
A01
Monica Colombo
Colombo, Monica
Monica
Colombo
2
A01
Fabio Quassoli
Quassoli, Fabio
Fabio
Quassoli
01
In our chapter, we explore how the intersection of governmentality studies with
critical discourse analysis (CDA) enables an empirical and analytical examination
of the ways in which discursive and non-discursive practices contribute to
the rationalities (episteme) and apparatus (techne) of governmentality. To this
end, we examine urban security policies and discourses in Milan over the past
decade. Drawing on archival data, official statistics and research reports, we
analyse the general policy framework that has emerged and consolidated in the
period considered. Special attention is paid to a new frame for urban policies
inaugurated in 2005 with the stipulation of “Local Pacts for Urban Security”.
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386
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Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discourse-analytical ‘toolbox’ of Foucault
1
A01
Reinhard Messerschmidt
Messerschmidt, Reinhard
Reinhard
Messerschmidt
01
German discourses of demographic change are characterised by alarmism.
A continuously growing number of publications in the mass media address
population aging and shrinking by depicting mostly dystopian future scenarios.
Some governmental strategies employ demographic discourse to prompt
individuals to react to ‘objective’ scientific facts in their everyday life. If the state
is allegedly no longer able to provide social security systems and the society is
doomed to suffer from a ‘generation-conflict’, citizens as ‘entrepreneurs of the
self ’ are expected to endorse private social insurances and later retirement.
Michel Foucault’s early to late works are used to analyse the underlying orders
of knowledge in textual, numerical, and graphical forms in order to examine the
governmental rationale that relies on this knowledge.
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New perspectives on discourse and governmentality
1
A01
Paul McIlvenny
McIlvenny, Paul
Paul
McIlvenny
2
A01
Julia Zhukova Klausen
Zhukova Klausen, Julia
Julia
Zhukova Klausen
3
A01
Laura Bang Lindegaard
Lindegaard, Laura Bang
Laura Bang
Lindegaard
01
In this comprehensive overview we familiarise readers with Michel Foucault’s
publications that are relevant both to discourse studies and to studies of governmentality.
We review the narrow impact that Foucault’s ideas have had on
discourse studies and summarise the scant literature on discourse and governmentality
across different disciplines. We elucidate the new scholarly understandings
of Foucault’s later work, as well as engage with the debates about
governmentality that have been generated after Foucault. In particular, we give a
thorough assessment of the reverberations of Foucault’s later work on governmentality
to clarify its contemporary relevance for discourse studies. Lastly,
we introduce and contextualise the theoretical, methodological and analytical
innovations in discourse studies to be found in the chapters in this volume,
before concluding on the contributions that the book makes to both discourse
studies and studies of governmentality.
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.s1
Section header
3
01
Part I: Intersecting governmentalities in public discourse
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.02las
73
94
22
Article
4
01
Governing citizen engagement
A discourse studies perspective
1
A01
Inger Lassen
Lassen, Inger
Inger
Lassen
2
A01
Anders Horsbøl
Horsbøl, Anders
Anders
Horsbøl
01
This chapter sets out to explore tensions between bottom-up and top-down processes
from a governmentality perspective. Using a discourse studies approach,
we investigate how forms of public participation in a local climate mitigation
project can be viewed as an instance of governmentality in the sense of how
the conduct of groups and individuals is influenced by other forces and how
groups and individuals influence the conduct of others through participation
and involvement. This implies that governmentality is analysed as emerging in
concrete, situated practices. Simultaneously, we investigate how a governmentality
approach may enrich our understanding of public participation, dialogue
and involvement, especially on the complex issue of sustainability and climate
change mitigation.
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.03ban
95
118
24
Article
5
01
The discursive intersection of the government of others and the government of self in the face of climate change
The
discursive intersection of the government of others and the government of self in the face of climate change
1
A01
Laura Bang Lindegaard
Lindegaard, Laura Bang
Laura Bang
Lindegaard
01
The chapter demonstrates how empirical discourse analysis can contribute to
the study of two issues of particular significance in recent studies of governmentality.
Firstly, the observation that the relationship between power and
resistance is specifically contradictory, in that resistance marks both a boundary
and a constitutive moment of government, and, secondly, the realisation
that governmentality is somehow intertwined with the continuous becoming
of ethical subjects, or, in other words, with continuously negotiated practices of
subjectivation. The chapter pursues and enforces the theoretical argument that
practices of subjectivation should be understood as an aspect of the unceasingly
negotiated interdependence of power and resistance. This suggests that this
theoretical insight can be fulfilled in empirical research if studies of governmentality
are interconnected with membership categorisation analysis and conversation
analysis. To demonstrate the benefits of this approach, the chapter provides
an in-depth analysis of focus group data from sessions in a small Danish village
in which citizens accomplish the contested discursive intersection of, on the one
hand, a municipal strategy aimed at ‘greening’ the citizens’ transportation conduct
and, on the other hand, the citizens’ attempt to conduct their own conduct.
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.04sol
119
148
30
Article
6
01
The art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters
The
art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters
1
A01
Janne Solberg
Solberg, Janne
Janne
Solberg
01
This chapter uses ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) to investigate
the empirical manifestations of governmentality in vocational rehabilitation
encounters in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. How
can the counsellors’ actions be understood as conducting the conduct of clients
in the setting of vocational rehabilitation? How do the counsellors’ practices,
especially their ways of dealing with client resistance, relate to the core idea of
governmentality as governing, not at the cost of, but through the freedom of
individuals? The chapter analyses the dialogue techniques in six instances in
which the client uses silence and minimal response tokens to resist the counsellor’s
actions. Earlier CA research has suggested counsellors have a rather
unilateral orientation to client resistance. However, this analysis reveals a more
responsive orientation, since it demonstrates how counsellors choose inviting,
non-intrusive action designs in the first place, as well as make adjustments to
the cued client resistance. These practices may be understood as evidencing a
technology of sensibility, co-constituting the client’s agency in situ.
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.05hon
149
176
28
Article
7
01
Governing governments?
Discursive contestations of governmentality in the transparency <italic>dispositif</italic>
1
A01
Sun-Ha Hong
Hong, Sun-Ha
Sun-Ha
Hong
2
A01
François Allard-Huver
Allard-Huver, François
François
Allard-Huver
01
In a world of controversy and suspicion, transparency promises a ‘virtuous
chain’ of informed citizens, rational deliberation and democratic participation.
In contrast, this essay conceptualises transparency as a Foucauldian dispositif:
a network of discourse, tactics, institutional processes and local subjectivities
which articulates what kinds of actions and statements are admissible and tactically
profitable. Notably, transparency discourse mobilises individual citizens
to audit the state – to govern governments. This becomes the basis upon which
the state and other institutions may legitimise and delegitimise one another
through strategic uses of transparency discourse. We illustrate these processes
through an examination of the ‘Séralini Affair’: a prominent controversy over
GMO, scientific expertise and transparency in France. We analyse transparency
discourse invoked by major stakeholders in the Affair, drawing tools from critical
discourse analysis and French discourse analysis.
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.s2
Section header
8
01
PART II: Discourse, practice and prefigurative governmentalities
10
01
JB code
dapsac.66.06ras
179
208
30
Article
9
01
Governing safe operations at a distance
Enacting responsible risk communication at work
1
A01
Joel Rasmussen
Rasmussen, Joel
Joel
Rasmussen
01
This chapter argues that today’s organisational risk management, where
employees are to adopt routines for proper self-control, is fruitfully approached
as what Rose and Miller (1992) term governing-at-a-distance. Governing that
relies on internal control and the self-governing capacity of citizens requires
people to be involved in communication that signifies responsible behaviour.
If there is hierarchical monitoring, then it is communication that is supervised
which makes the signifying practices all the more important. While previous
research has demonstrated that an increasing burden of responsibility is placed
on citizens for the risks and health problems they face or envisage, less attention
has been paid to the increased communication requirements this development
involves. Bridging this gap, this chapter investigates how social interaction in
meetings works to facilitate employees to become responsible risk communication
subjects. An intensive discourse analysis of five safety meeting episodes
demonstrates how the responsibilisation of employees’ risk communication
extends questions of (a) form – such as the duration of talk, (b) paper work,
(c) genuineness, (d) contributing on-topic, (e) economisation, and (f) reliability
regardless of illness and place. The study takes inspiration from positioning
analysis (e.g. Bamberg 2005), allowing for a detailed account of the moment-tomoment
process of responsibilisation, something that previous research on risk
management tends to skim over.
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Article
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Dialogue and governmentality-in-action
A discourse analysis of a leadership forum
1
A01
Ann Starbæk Bager
Starbæk Bager, Ann
Ann
Starbæk Bager
2
A01
Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen
Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg
Kenneth Mølbjerg
Jørgensen
3
A01
Pirkko Raudaskoski
Raudaskoski, Pirkko
Pirkko
Raudaskoski
01
We explore how dialogue as governmentality-in-action was both overtly
challenged and unintentionally employed in an interdisciplinary leadership
development forum held at a university. We study the forum as a site to explore
Foucault’s understanding of the conduct of conduct combined with Agamben’s
and Deleuze’s proposals to advance and nuance the concept of dispositif. We
compare dispositif with Bakhtin’s and Linell’s notions of dialogicality and
dialogism as sites of centripetal and centrifugal forces with heteroglossia and
orientation to third parties. This methodological move makes it possible to
study dialogue and dispositif as related concepts that are lived out in situated
practices. We employ membership categorisation analysis (MCA) to complement
a multimodal conversation analysis of the opening lecture of the forum to
show the taken-for-granted nature of the setting as a dispositif.
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dapsac.66.08zhu
235
264
30
Article
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Diagnosing transnationality
Therapy discourse and psy practices in the ethicalisation of transnational living
1
A01
Julia Zhukova Klausen
Zhukova Klausen, Julia
Julia
Zhukova Klausen
01
The chapter investigates the genealogy of a transnational ethics. That is, in
Foucauldian terms, how transnational living is constructed as an ethical substance,
the modes through which the actors become invited to problematise
their transnational conduct and the telos to which they are impelled to aspire.
Using multimodal discourse analysis, the chapter uncovers the discursive
technologies through which therapeutic practice (as well as the genres and
institutions implicated in it) is employed in using the individual’s relationship to
oneself to exercise and rationalise a transnational ethics. The analysis demonstrates
how discursive practices, dispersed across multiple modalities, participate
in the formation of alliances between diverse regimes of transnational
living, such as computer-mediated transnational spaces, diaspora communities,
national and para-national institutions and professional associations. In doing
so, the analysis makes visible how new agents and authorities become recruited
for administering transnational conduct. The chapter argues that these assemblages
and the transnational ethics made visible through the analysis prime
the mechanisms of transnational governmentality and prepare the basis for a
restrictive morality through which transnational conduct can be regulated.
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dapsac.66.09mci
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294
30
Article
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Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations
Interactional and categorial practices in the strange case of the United Nathans weapons inspectors
1
A01
Paul McIlvenny
McIlvenny, Paul
Paul
McIlvenny
01
The interactional and categorial practices of a prefigurative protest demonstration
are examined using video recordings that document a theatrical protest
event called “United Nathans weapons inspectors” in February 2003. The chapter
undertakes an analytics of protest to uncover how fields of visibility, forms of
knowledge, technologies and apparatuses, and subjectivities and identities are
negotiated and accomplished collaboratively. Conversation analysis (CA) helps
us document the ways in which fields of visibility and modes of rationality are
sequentially organised. Membership categorisation analysis (MCA) uncovers
the categorial work by which subjectivation is morally accomplished in social
interaction. The chapter shows how CA and MCA can help trace the interactional,
embodied and categorial practices that are endogenous to conducting
the conduct of others and the self, and thus which constitute or contest the
rationalities of governmentality.
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PART III: Discourse, policy and governmentality
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Governmentality through intertextuality
Strategic planning discourse in the administration of tertiary education
1
A01
Derek Wallace
Wallace, Derek
Derek
Wallace
01
In this chapter I analyse texts composed and exchanged within the New Zealand
tertiary education domain in order to explore the “will to govern” (Miller and
Rose 2008: 29) in its contemporary manifestation. Using intertextuality as the
principle framework, the analysis is grounded in a detailed case study of the use
of strategic planning as a technology of government. The investigation reveals
the considerable extent to which governments can govern through textual
means, notwithstanding a tightening of control over the period studied through
changes in regimes of compliance. Notable also in the universities’ enforced
adoption of strategic planning is the extent to which the discursive practices
that characterise strategic planning in a complex, multi-levelled environment
can enhance a liberal rationality of rule.
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dapsac.66.11col
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352
30
Article
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Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discourse analysis
A case study on urban security discourses and practices
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A01
Monica Colombo
Colombo, Monica
Monica
Colombo
2
A01
Fabio Quassoli
Quassoli, Fabio
Fabio
Quassoli
01
In our chapter, we explore how the intersection of governmentality studies with
critical discourse analysis (CDA) enables an empirical and analytical examination
of the ways in which discursive and non-discursive practices contribute to
the rationalities (episteme) and apparatus (techne) of governmentality. To this
end, we examine urban security policies and discourses in Milan over the past
decade. Drawing on archival data, official statistics and research reports, we
analyse the general policy framework that has emerged and consolidated in the
period considered. Special attention is paid to a new frame for urban policies
inaugurated in 2005 with the stipulation of “Local Pacts for Urban Security”.
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Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discourse-analytical ‘toolbox’ of Foucault
1
A01
Reinhard Messerschmidt
Messerschmidt, Reinhard
Reinhard
Messerschmidt
01
German discourses of demographic change are characterised by alarmism.
A continuously growing number of publications in the mass media address
population aging and shrinking by depicting mostly dystopian future scenarios.
Some governmental strategies employ demographic discourse to prompt
individuals to react to ‘objective’ scientific facts in their everyday life. If the state
is allegedly no longer able to provide social security systems and the society is
doomed to suffer from a ‘generation-conflict’, citizens as ‘entrepreneurs of the
self ’ are expected to endorse private social insurances and later retirement.
Michel Foucault’s early to late works are used to analyse the underlying orders
of knowledge in textual, numerical, and graphical forms in order to examine the
governmental rationale that relies on this knowledge.
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Notes on contributors
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Miscellaneous
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