Dear members,
I hope some of You may find ths Ph.d. Course on Governmentality, Foucault and Critique of interest...
Best,
Kaspar Villadsen
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Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique – analytical strategies for critique of power (4-6 May 2011)
Faculty
Professor Mitchell Dean, Macquarie University, Sydney, Professor Sverre
Raffnsøe, Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS,
External Lecturer, Afonso Moreira, Department of Management, Politics
& Philosophy, CBS, Associate Professor Kaspar Villadsen,
Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS, PhD Scholar,
Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Department of Management, Politics &
Philosophy, CBS
Course Coordinator
Kaspar Villadsen
Link:
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/forskeruddannelser/alle_ph_d_kurser/ph_d_kurser_paa_cbs/phd_courses_2011_spring/foucault_governmentality_and_critique_analytical_strategies_for_critique_of_power_4_6_may_2011
Prerequisite/progression of the course
Only PhD students can participate in the course.
Aim of the course
The course will provide the
participants with: a) An updated introduction to key analytical concepts
in the Governmentality literature, and the potentials and weaknesses of
these concepts will be discussed. b) Possibilities
for supplementing the governmentality approach with other analytical
sources will be discussed. c) Furthermore, a detailed consideration of
the current status of governmentality studies and postFoucauldian
studies will be given, in particular in light of recent
claims for a crisis of critique. d) Finally, suggestions will be
presented on how to elaborate or move beyond the framework of
governmentality by activating concepts of bio-power and sovereignty,
reconsidering the social and notions of society, and focusing
on international dimensions of governmentality. In brief, the course
aims to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the
governmentality framework, that is, its analytical possibilities, its
current status, and its possible directions of development.
Course content, structure and teaching
Over the last 20 years,
post-Foucauldian “governmentality studies” have come to growing
prominence. These studies have been effective in critically analysing
new types of liberal government, in particular by demonstrating
‘the active side of laissez faire’. They describe how the motto of
‘pulling back the state’ has been accompanied by a series of
governmental strategies and technologies aimed at shaping institutions
and subjects in particular ways. Perhaps most noticeably,
they have presented a diagnosis of a proliferation of regimes of
enterprise and accounting in new and surprising places. But a wide range
of other domains have been subjected to governmentality analysis
spanning from genetic screening and risk calculation,
new crime prevention strategies, to health promotion by
self-responsibilisation. To be sure, the concepts in governmentality
studies continue to constituteeffective tools for critical social
analysis. Nevertheless, in recent years critical objections have
been raised against the governmentality approach. It has been noted by
some observers that the Foucauldian and post-structuralist language,
originally used for critical academic purposes, seems to be increasingly
appropriated by ‘the powers’ that were the
object of such critique. Most notably, this point has been voiced
(although in different versions) by Zizek, Boltanski, and
Hardt&Negri. These thinkers suggest that a post-structural ’politics
of difference’ increasingly seems to be an integral part of the
ways, in which institutions and companies organise themselves. If
modern liberal government has begun to speak for the dissolution of
binary essentials, the destabilisation of rigid power structures, the
creation of space for the subject’s self-transforming
work upon itself, and so on.In light of this development, we need to
think of ways to revitalise the Foucauldian concepts of
critique/criticism. A central theme of the PhD course is the search for
effective analytical strategies for critique of power (some
perhaps less noticed) in the works of Foucault and other writers in the
governmentality tradition. The course requires the submission of a
paper that deals with conceptual problems or analytical designs in
relation to Foucauldian inspired/governmentality studies.
Furthermore, papers that apply Foucauldian concepts to empirical
problems in a variety of domains are welcomed. It is also possible to
participate on the basis of an abstract stating the theme of the PhD
project. An abstract should be approximately 1 page,
whereas a paper should be approx. 5 pages. In both cases, the PhD
student should state his main analytical challenge/concern at his/her
current stage in the project. Papers/abstracts must be in English.
DEADLINE is 26 April, 2011.
Lecture plan
Time/period
Faculty
Title
Wednesday, 4 May.
10:00-12:30
Kaspar Villadsen
Analytical approaches in governmentality studies
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-16:00
Mitchell Dean
Ways to move beyond the governmentality framework
16:00-17:00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Papers from Ph.D. scholars
Thursday, 5 May.
10.00-12.30
Mitchell Dean
Contemporary Neoliberialism and ways to analyse it
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Kaspar Villadsen
Statephobia, civil society and critique in postfoucauldian thinking
15.00-17.00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Papers from Ph.D. scholars
Friday, 6 May
10:00-11:30
Afonso Moreira
Making up people: Foucault combined with ethnography
11:00-12:30
Sverre Raffnsøe
The dispositive of welfare: A diagnosis of the present
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Marius Gudmand-Høyer
Dispositive analysis: the key analytical strategy of Foucault?
15.00-16.00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Papers from Ph.D. scholars
16:00-17:00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Concludingdiscussion and evaluation
Teaching methods
The course will use lectures given
by specialists in the field, roundtable discussions, and presentation of
papers from PhD students. Participation in the course requires a paper
with an outline of Ph.D. project or parts
of the project. See more details above.
Course literature
Dean, M. (2007) Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule. Maidenhead: Open University Press (especially Introduction and conclusion). · Dean, M. (2010)
Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Societies (2nd edition). London: Sage (especially Introduction to Second Edition and chapter 10)._ · Foucault, M. (2007)
Security, Territory, Population. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 5) · Foucault, M. (2008)
The Birth of Biopolitics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 12). · Deleuze, G. (1990) Postscript on Control Societies, in: G. Deleuze:
Negotiations 1972-1990. New York: Columbia University Press · Raffnsøe, S. & Gudmand-Høyer, M.
The Dispositive, Unpublished article · Villadsen, K.
&Karlsen, M.P. (2008) "Who Should Do the Talking? The proliferation
of dialogue as governmental technology", in:
Culture & Organization, no. 14, vol. 4.
Villadsen, K. (2008) "Doing
without the State and Civil Society as Universals: 'Dispositifs' of care
across the classic sector divide", in:
Journal of Civil Society, no. 4, vol. 3. Rose, N. (1996) ‘The Death of the Social’, in: Economy and Society.
Hardt, M. &Negri, A. (2000) ‘Symptoms of change(?), in Empire.
Enrolment
Please send your application to Julie Siezing (
jsi.lpf@xxxxxx) no later than
April 1, 2011.
Kaspar Villadsen
Associate Professor, PhD
www.cbs.dk/staff/Kaspar
Department of Management , Politics & Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18a
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone: (45) 3815-3649 / (45) 2721-3264
E-mail: kv.lpf@xxxxxx
I hope some of You may find ths Ph.d. Course on Governmentality, Foucault and Critique of interest...
Best,
Kaspar Villadsen
-----
Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique – analytical strategies for critique of power (4-6 May 2011)
Faculty
Professor Mitchell Dean, Macquarie University, Sydney, Professor Sverre
Raffnsøe, Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS,
External Lecturer, Afonso Moreira, Department of Management, Politics
& Philosophy, CBS, Associate Professor Kaspar Villadsen,
Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS, PhD Scholar,
Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Department of Management, Politics &
Philosophy, CBS
Course Coordinator
Kaspar Villadsen
Link:
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/forskeruddannelser/alle_ph_d_kurser/ph_d_kurser_paa_cbs/phd_courses_2011_spring/foucault_governmentality_and_critique_analytical_strategies_for_critique_of_power_4_6_may_2011
Prerequisite/progression of the course
Only PhD students can participate in the course.
Aim of the course
The course will provide the
participants with: a) An updated introduction to key analytical concepts
in the Governmentality literature, and the potentials and weaknesses of
these concepts will be discussed. b) Possibilities
for supplementing the governmentality approach with other analytical
sources will be discussed. c) Furthermore, a detailed consideration of
the current status of governmentality studies and postFoucauldian
studies will be given, in particular in light of recent
claims for a crisis of critique. d) Finally, suggestions will be
presented on how to elaborate or move beyond the framework of
governmentality by activating concepts of bio-power and sovereignty,
reconsidering the social and notions of society, and focusing
on international dimensions of governmentality. In brief, the course
aims to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the
governmentality framework, that is, its analytical possibilities, its
current status, and its possible directions of development.
Course content, structure and teaching
Over the last 20 years,
post-Foucauldian “governmentality studies” have come to growing
prominence. These studies have been effective in critically analysing
new types of liberal government, in particular by demonstrating
‘the active side of laissez faire’. They describe how the motto of
‘pulling back the state’ has been accompanied by a series of
governmental strategies and technologies aimed at shaping institutions
and subjects in particular ways. Perhaps most noticeably,
they have presented a diagnosis of a proliferation of regimes of
enterprise and accounting in new and surprising places. But a wide range
of other domains have been subjected to governmentality analysis
spanning from genetic screening and risk calculation,
new crime prevention strategies, to health promotion by
self-responsibilisation. To be sure, the concepts in governmentality
studies continue to constituteeffective tools for critical social
analysis. Nevertheless, in recent years critical objections have
been raised against the governmentality approach. It has been noted by
some observers that the Foucauldian and post-structuralist language,
originally used for critical academic purposes, seems to be increasingly
appropriated by ‘the powers’ that were the
object of such critique. Most notably, this point has been voiced
(although in different versions) by Zizek, Boltanski, and
Hardt&Negri. These thinkers suggest that a post-structural ’politics
of difference’ increasingly seems to be an integral part of the
ways, in which institutions and companies organise themselves. If
modern liberal government has begun to speak for the dissolution of
binary essentials, the destabilisation of rigid power structures, the
creation of space for the subject’s self-transforming
work upon itself, and so on.In light of this development, we need to
think of ways to revitalise the Foucauldian concepts of
critique/criticism. A central theme of the PhD course is the search for
effective analytical strategies for critique of power (some
perhaps less noticed) in the works of Foucault and other writers in the
governmentality tradition. The course requires the submission of a
paper that deals with conceptual problems or analytical designs in
relation to Foucauldian inspired/governmentality studies.
Furthermore, papers that apply Foucauldian concepts to empirical
problems in a variety of domains are welcomed. It is also possible to
participate on the basis of an abstract stating the theme of the PhD
project. An abstract should be approximately 1 page,
whereas a paper should be approx. 5 pages. In both cases, the PhD
student should state his main analytical challenge/concern at his/her
current stage in the project. Papers/abstracts must be in English.
DEADLINE is 26 April, 2011.
Lecture plan
Time/period
Faculty
Title
Wednesday, 4 May.
10:00-12:30
Kaspar Villadsen
Analytical approaches in governmentality studies
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-16:00
Mitchell Dean
Ways to move beyond the governmentality framework
16:00-17:00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Papers from Ph.D. scholars
Thursday, 5 May.
10.00-12.30
Mitchell Dean
Contemporary Neoliberialism and ways to analyse it
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Kaspar Villadsen
Statephobia, civil society and critique in postfoucauldian thinking
15.00-17.00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Papers from Ph.D. scholars
Friday, 6 May
10:00-11:30
Afonso Moreira
Making up people: Foucault combined with ethnography
11:00-12:30
Sverre Raffnsøe
The dispositive of welfare: A diagnosis of the present
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Marius Gudmand-Høyer
Dispositive analysis: the key analytical strategy of Foucault?
15.00-16.00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Papers from Ph.D. scholars
16:00-17:00
Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
Concludingdiscussion and evaluation
Teaching methods
The course will use lectures given
by specialists in the field, roundtable discussions, and presentation of
papers from PhD students. Participation in the course requires a paper
with an outline of Ph.D. project or parts
of the project. See more details above.
Course literature
Dean, M. (2007) Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule. Maidenhead: Open University Press (especially Introduction and conclusion). · Dean, M. (2010)
Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Societies (2nd edition). London: Sage (especially Introduction to Second Edition and chapter 10)._ · Foucault, M. (2007)
Security, Territory, Population. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 5) · Foucault, M. (2008)
The Birth of Biopolitics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 12). · Deleuze, G. (1990) Postscript on Control Societies, in: G. Deleuze:
Negotiations 1972-1990. New York: Columbia University Press · Raffnsøe, S. & Gudmand-Høyer, M.
The Dispositive, Unpublished article · Villadsen, K.
&Karlsen, M.P. (2008) "Who Should Do the Talking? The proliferation
of dialogue as governmental technology", in:
Culture & Organization, no. 14, vol. 4.
Villadsen, K. (2008) "Doing
without the State and Civil Society as Universals: 'Dispositifs' of care
across the classic sector divide", in:
Journal of Civil Society, no. 4, vol. 3. Rose, N. (1996) ‘The Death of the Social’, in: Economy and Society.
Hardt, M. &Negri, A. (2000) ‘Symptoms of change(?), in Empire.
Enrolment
Please send your application to Julie Siezing (
jsi.lpf@xxxxxx) no later than
April 1, 2011.
Kaspar Villadsen
Associate Professor, PhD
www.cbs.dk/staff/Kaspar
Department of Management , Politics & Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18a
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone: (45) 3815-3649 / (45) 2721-3264
E-mail: kv.lpf@xxxxxx