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Foucault on Governmentality and Population: The Impossible Discovery
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For Michel Foucault's analysis of state formation, the 'discovery of population' was the pivot on which the transition from rule based on police to rule in liberal modes of government took place. Moder 'governmentality' takes population as its object. Foucault's usages of 'population' proposition to the continually asked questions 'what's the class?,' 'where's the class?,' 'what class do you belong to?.' And the French Communist Party con- fronted all social struggles with the question, 'is this struggle in the interest of theproletariat?.' Marxists askedrepeatedly 'what's the class?' butnever 'what's the struggle?,' 'who is engaged in struggle?,' 'what is at stake in struggle?,'
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“Medieval cities, wrote Foucault, already relied on two types of measures to deal with perceived threats such as leprosy and plague: exclusion and quarantine (Curtis 2002).”
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“In a highly perceptive and critical article, Bruce Curtis has analysed the use (and abuse) of the term ‘population’ in Foucault’s writings (Curtis, 2002).”
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“To the contrary, he tended to naturalise population as an object on which power can act and as a thing that follows natural processes and laws (Curtis, 2002).”
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- Curtis, B.
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- Curtis, Bruce
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- Curtis, Bruce
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie
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- JSTOR
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 505
- ISSN
- 0318-6431 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W258358270
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 20
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- FWCI
- 5.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- doi.org
- Locations
- The Canadian Journal of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Philosophy and Social Theory
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
- Keywords
- Michel Foucault, governmentality, population, state formation, Liberal government, class, French Communist Party, Marxism, proletarian struggle
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