Studies of discourse and governmentality : new perspectives and methods / edited by Paul McIlvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen, Laura Bang Lindegaard, Aalborg University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McIlvenny, Paul, editor.

Klausen, Julia Zhukova, editor.

Lindegaard, Laura Bang, 1980- editor.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 1569-9463 66.

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC), 1569-9463

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Political and social views.

Foucault, Michel.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Power (Social sciences).

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 Collège de France, 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.

Contents:

Intro

Studies of Discourse and Governmentality

Editorial page

Title page

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Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. New perspectives on discourse and governmentality

1. Introduction

2. Perspectives on Foucault's influential oeuvre

2.1 Foucault on discourse, knowledge and truth

2.2 Foucault on power and governmentality

2.3 Foucault on the subject, ethics and the government of the self

3. The (un)familiar face of Foucault in discourse studies

4. After Foucault: Contemporary debates about governmentality

4.1 Key figures

4.2 Disciplinary attachments

4.3 An example

5. Rethinking issues for discourse studies

5.1 Critique, problematisation and genealogy: tools for discourse studies?

5.2 Practice and conduct in Foucault and discourse studies

5.3 Counter-conduct and resistance in discourse and social interaction

5.4 Rationalities, categorisation and the politico-moral order

5.5 Practices and discourses of ethicalisation

5.6 Mediated discourse, assemblage and the topology of power

6. Overview of the chapters

7. Conclusion

References

Part I. Intersecting governmentalities in public discourse

Chapter 2. Governing citizen engagement: A discourse studies perspective

2. Theoretical reflections

3. Methodology and data

4. Analysis and discussion

4.1 Inviting the citizens

4.2 Between autonomy and governance

4.3 Citizens conducting other citizens

4.4 Reaching out for alliances with institutional players: The utility

4.5 Governing through the 'techne' of incentives

4.6 A revised strategy: 'Attacking' the neighbourhoods

5. Conclusions

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Chapter 3. The discursive intersection of the government of others and the govern

1. Introduction.

2. Approaching the intersection of the government of others and the government of the self

2.1 Studies of governmentality

2.2 Ethnomethodological discourse analysis

2.3 Considering commensurability

3. "I know it's cheaper": Pre-empting accountability

4. Conclusion

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Chapter 4. The art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters

2. Foucault: Power, freedom and resistance

3. The loose phenomenology of governmentality research

4. Conversation analysis as a tool to explicate governmental practices

5. The policy of vocational rehabilitation

5.1 The motivated client, the reasonable client

6. NAV-counsellors' adjustments to passive client resistance

7. Discussion and conclusion

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Chapter 5. Governing governments? Discursive contestations of governmentality in the transpar

1. The self-presentation of transparency

2. Transparency as dispositif

3. Transparency as governmentality

4. Discourse and the formule

5. On the Séralini Affair

6. Circulation and boundaries

7. The politics of transparency discourse

Part II. Discourse, practice and prefigurative governmentalities

Chapter 6. Governing safe operations at a distance: Enacting responsible risk communication at work

2. The governing of organisations and risks

3. The 'textualisation of work' and workplace meetings

4. Methodology

5. Results

5.1 Taking responsibility for the form and duration of risk communication

5.2 Taking responsibility for both the paper work and the genuineness of risk communication

5.3 Taking responsibility for communicating on-topic

5.4 Communicating risk with due consideration to economisation.

5.5 Communicating responsibly irrespective of illness or place

6. Conclusion

Chapter 7. Dialogue and governmentality-in-action: A discourse analysis of a leadership forum

2. The leadership forum

3. Governmentality-in-action

4. Dispositif, heteroglossia and dialogue - A Bakhtinian perspective

5. Other-orientation and interactional trajectories of socioculture and dispositifs

6. Dialogism and membership categorisation analysis (MCA)

7. The analysis

8. Summary

9. Conclusion

Chapter 8. Diagnosing transnationality: Therapy discourse and psy practices in the ethicalisa

2. Transnational governmentality

3. Mediated discourses of transnational living

4. Discursive technologies of transnational subjectivation

4.1 The construction of transnationality as an ethical substance: Locating-and-stretching the probl

4.2 Discursive problematisation of the transnational substance: Making the diagnosis - writing the

4.3 The techniques of care for the transnational subject: Prescribing the treatment

5. Towards the notion of transnational governmentality

Chapter 9. Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations: Interactional and c

2. Governmentality in practice

3. Counter-conducts

4. Conducting conduct in social interaction

5. Case study: "United Nathans weapons inspectors"

6. Inspections and demonstrations

7. Analysis of the "United Nathans weapons inspectors" event

7.1 From service encounter to mock inspection

7.2 Doing a mock inspection

7.3 Analytics of protest practices

8. Conclusion

Part III. Discourse, policy and governmentality

Chapter 10. Governmentality through intertextuality: Strategic planning discourse in the

2. A brief history of government planning

3. Tertiary education in New Zealand

4. Intertextuality as a focus of analysis

5. Constitutive intertextuality in the tertiary education strategy

6. Manifest intertextuality in the tertiary education strategy

7. Strategic planning in a New Zealand university

8. Investment plans

9. Concluding discussion

Chapter 11. Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discour

2. Critical discourse analysis and studies of governmentality

3. Security, power and control

4. A case study: Urban security policies and discourses in Milan

4.1 The socio-political context: urban security discourses and policies in Italy

4.2 The situational context: "Local Pacts for Urban Security"

4.3 Analytical categories

4.4 The discursive construction of urban (in)security in local police discourse and practices

5. Final remarks

Appendix

Chapter 12. Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discou

2. Analysing the discourse of demographic change with Foucault as an ontology of the present

3. The fabrication of demographic future knowledge

4. Garbled demography? Demographic change in the German mass-media from 2000 to 2013

5. Conclusion: The changing governmentality of demographic change

Notes on contributors

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

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