167 CHAPTER NINE Thinking with Michel Foucault Introduction One doesn’t have a power … wholly in the hands of one person who can exercise it alone and totally over others. It’s a machine in which everyone is caught, those who exercise power just as much as those over whom it is exercised.… One impoverishes the question of power if one poses it in terms solely of the state and state apparatus. Power is quite different from and more complicated, dense, and pervasive than a set of laws or a state apparatus. (Foucault, 1980, pp 156–8) Lemme hear you say Fight
41 3 Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion–inclusion and the spatial history of social policy Chris Philo Foucault as spatial historian of social policy Heeding the central purpose of the present collection, I position Michel Foucault (1926–84), the French intellectual, as a spatial historian of social policy. Casting Foucault as a researcher of social policy is not necessarily how many see him, but, if ‘social policy’ refers to how different agencies – including formal state institutions and other civic bodies – operate upon ‘the social’ to
1 The discourse analysis of Michel Foucault ore than anyone, Michel Foucault has developed and created an agenda for discourse analysis. Moreover, he has received the widest recognition within the social sciences. At present, he functions as nothing short of a guru within research on economic regulation, and has inspired, for example, analyses of the genealogy of financial management and calculation. Although I have studied Foucault longer than any other writer, he is probably still the one I have the most difficulty in presenting. There are several reasons
This chapter reflects on both the sexual intimacies of the ageing bisexual and the limited research on such lived experiences of bisexuality in later life. Here I consider these two areas as an example of Michel Foucault’s ‘heterotopia’; as a space that is, paradoxically, both connected to, and disconnected from, the ageing gay and lesbian imaginary (Foucault, 1967 , p 3). This chapter also demonstrates how the ‘dynamic and fluid’ complexities of lived bisexuality in later life, within mononormative care practices, ensure that older bisexual intimacies have
137 7 Locating civil society in Foucault As highlighted in Chapters 1–4 and elsewhere, there is no broad agreement on the concept of civil society. Its scope ranges from Enlightenment thinking to the critical perspectives put forward by Marx, Gramsci, Foucault and critical theorists. This chapter focuses on Foucault’s view of civil society not as a historical given but as a mode of governance associated with changes in governmentality. In this regard, I distinguish Foucault’s approach from the work of Anglo- Foucauldians, who refused to consider the state
1 Mark Edward Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Review by Mark Edward1 In Choat’s Marx Through Post-Structuralism one key claim is that different post- structural thinkers are engaged in the endeavour to provide a genuinely new materialist philosophy. Focusing on post-structuralist thinkers Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, Choat strives to investigate the influence of Marx and their attempts to create a materialist philosophy. In the following
1 Jason Edwards Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Review by Jason Edwards1 Simon Choat’s Marx through Poststructuralism is an admirably clear book that convincingly puts the case for a re-evaluation of the work of some key post- structuralist thinkers (namely Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze) in light of the influence on them of Marx. More than this, he attempts to construct out of the engagement between Marx and these authors a conception of materialism that is relevant and useful
1 Saul Newman Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Review by Saul Newman1 Simon Choat, in exploring an encounter between Marx’s thought and that of key post- structuralist thinkers, has done something important here. He has provided an alternate way of thinking about both Marx and post-structuralism, two critical perspectives that have hitherto been seen by many as irreconcilably opposed. From the point of view of the Marxist defenders of the faith, post-structuralists like Foucault
1 Simon Choat Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Author’s Reply by Simon Choat1 I am enormously grateful to the editors of Global Discourse for this opportunity to respond to the three reviews of my book Marx Through Post-Structuralism, and equally grateful to the reviewers themselves for their careful readings, kind praise, and judicious and stimulating criticisms. My responses are offered in a spirit of intellectual generosity and I apologise in advance if reviewers or readers think I
In this timely analysis, Matthew J. Quinn plots a landmark reimagination of governance and public administration, underpinned by sustainable development and civic republicanism.
He draws on governance literature and Foucault’s concept of governmentality to demonstrate the anachronism of existing bureaucratic norms and how these have thwarted sustainability and fuelled right-wing populism. Using international examples and the author’s own extensive experience in sustainability governance as a senior UK official, the book proposes a new civic bureaucracy which fosters societal engagement and dialogue. It sheds new light on debates about the emerging crisis of governance, the role of public bureaucracy and the means to embed sustainability in governance.
