I'm wondering why you want to know what can be said about that topic from the the perspective of Foucault. If it's helpful, he did say - I think it was him - to think about who speaks, and who stands to gain. So, based on that, the political potential of disobedience will depend on the power of the individual/group doing the disobeying. If they are middle class, it makes a big difference.
I say this because all you have to do is look at the Montreal Masacre of 1989 and see who had the power when it came to Marc Lepine versus the media and feminists. He, poor sod, had nothing. They, privileged elites, had the power to have their concerns - and distress - heard. And they had the power to interpret Marc Lepine's motives and actions. God only knows how many times Marc Lepine approached feminists, individually, to try to get them to hear his concerns. Maybe that's where the list came from - not a hitlist after all, but list of feminists who refused to hear him. He didn't kill women/feminists "because" he hated them. He killed them because the world was chinging and there was no place in it for him and others like him - the ones with no power and way of getting their concerns heard.
When women began to enter traditional male domains, some men, and some women, would get left out. It has always helped to have the right father, the well-placed husband, a strong network, and property (getting on the property ladder in England has been made a prime concern). When feminism gained a foothold, class came to matter more than anything else.
Sue McPherson
http://www.MontrealMassacre.net
see essay, Perspectives on the Montreal Massacre: Canada's Outrage Revisited
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From: "elise thorburn" <elise@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Foucault-L] Disobedience, Thoreau and Foucault
> Hi there.
> I'm a grad student in Theory and Criticism at UWO in Canada. I'm trying to write a term paper on the idea of disobedience from Thoreau and how to read it genealogically through a Foucauldian kinda lens. I also wanted to, from this, gain some insight into what could be said about the political potential of disobedience in the contemporary.
>
> I've read a good deal of Foucault, Thoreau, Arendt, and some other stuff.
> Can any one suggests specific avenues of Foucault for me to look at?
> Much appreciated
> Elise
>
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>
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I say this because all you have to do is look at the Montreal Masacre of 1989 and see who had the power when it came to Marc Lepine versus the media and feminists. He, poor sod, had nothing. They, privileged elites, had the power to have their concerns - and distress - heard. And they had the power to interpret Marc Lepine's motives and actions. God only knows how many times Marc Lepine approached feminists, individually, to try to get them to hear his concerns. Maybe that's where the list came from - not a hitlist after all, but list of feminists who refused to hear him. He didn't kill women/feminists "because" he hated them. He killed them because the world was chinging and there was no place in it for him and others like him - the ones with no power and way of getting their concerns heard.
When women began to enter traditional male domains, some men, and some women, would get left out. It has always helped to have the right father, the well-placed husband, a strong network, and property (getting on the property ladder in England has been made a prime concern). When feminism gained a foothold, class came to matter more than anything else.
Sue McPherson
http://www.MontrealMassacre.net
see essay, Perspectives on the Montreal Massacre: Canada's Outrage Revisited
----- Original Message -----
From: "elise thorburn" <elise@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: [Foucault-L] Disobedience, Thoreau and Foucault
> Hi there.
> I'm a grad student in Theory and Criticism at UWO in Canada. I'm trying to write a term paper on the idea of disobedience from Thoreau and how to read it genealogically through a Foucauldian kinda lens. I also wanted to, from this, gain some insight into what could be said about the political potential of disobedience in the contemporary.
>
> I've read a good deal of Foucault, Thoreau, Arendt, and some other stuff.
> Can any one suggests specific avenues of Foucault for me to look at?
> Much appreciated
> Elise
>
> --
> I am lost in a frenzy, unable to find where I am.
>
> - rene descartes
>
> the struggle is always inner, and played out in the outer terrains.
>
> - gloria anzaldua
> --
>
>
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