Hi,
> that the notion of population also looms in the background of
> Foucault's earlier work. I was hoping that people reading this
Check the early 1970's lectures: Psychiatric Power and Abnormal, where
Foucault sporadically discusses the control of population, in the context
of the development of psychiatry as a modern technique of social control.
His analysis presented there is a precursor of those in Discipline and
Punish and the Will to Knowledge.
If you want to know how so-called governmentality studies are treating the
notions of government and population, have a look at Jonathan Xavier
Inda's Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics (2005),
esp. Introduction and Chapter 1.
Tetz
-----Original Message-----
From: Nikolay
Sent: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:27:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Foucault-L] Foucault on Population
> Hello To Those Who Are Reading This
> and Thank You
>
> I am working on a project concerned with tracing out the
> development of population as the object of knowledge from 17
> century to present. I think it is a central issue. Foucault
> indicates in Society Must Be Defended that emergence of
> population as an object of knowledge within disciplinary
> discourse signifies the birth of biopolitics. He also deals
> explicitly with the topic in the lectures of '78, but I only
> have the lecture on Governmentality in English (I don't think
> the others are translated yet). I am currently looking into the
> Tanner Lectures as well, and there is some implicit discussion
> of population in History of Sexuality Vol 1. Of course, I think
> that the notion of population also looms in the background of
> Foucault's earlier work. I was hoping that people reading this
> email would be kind enough to give some suggestions for further
> research and any other input they would like to impart. I am
> looking for all kinds of sources within Foucault's body of work
> as well as in the work of others. Sources on Malthus would be
> welcome as well.
>
> Thank you,
> Nikolay Tugushev
> tugushev@xxxxxxxxxx
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
> that the notion of population also looms in the background of
> Foucault's earlier work. I was hoping that people reading this
Check the early 1970's lectures: Psychiatric Power and Abnormal, where
Foucault sporadically discusses the control of population, in the context
of the development of psychiatry as a modern technique of social control.
His analysis presented there is a precursor of those in Discipline and
Punish and the Will to Knowledge.
If you want to know how so-called governmentality studies are treating the
notions of government and population, have a look at Jonathan Xavier
Inda's Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics (2005),
esp. Introduction and Chapter 1.
Tetz
-----Original Message-----
From: Nikolay
Sent: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:27:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Foucault-L] Foucault on Population
> Hello To Those Who Are Reading This
> and Thank You
>
> I am working on a project concerned with tracing out the
> development of population as the object of knowledge from 17
> century to present. I think it is a central issue. Foucault
> indicates in Society Must Be Defended that emergence of
> population as an object of knowledge within disciplinary
> discourse signifies the birth of biopolitics. He also deals
> explicitly with the topic in the lectures of '78, but I only
> have the lecture on Governmentality in English (I don't think
> the others are translated yet). I am currently looking into the
> Tanner Lectures as well, and there is some implicit discussion
> of population in History of Sexuality Vol 1. Of course, I think
> that the notion of population also looms in the background of
> Foucault's earlier work. I was hoping that people reading this
> email would be kind enough to give some suggestions for further
> research and any other input they would like to impart. I am
> looking for all kinds of sources within Foucault's body of work
> as well as in the work of others. Sources on Malthus would be
> welcome as well.
>
> Thank you,
> Nikolay Tugushev
> tugushev@xxxxxxxxxx
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list