Governmentality, citizenship and dangerousness
(2011) The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 — Location: Birkbeck College, University of London (4.June.2011)
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- According to Ewald and Fontana, those who attended Foucault’s courses “were not only held in thrall by the narratives that unfolded week by week and seduced by the rigorous exposition; they also found a perspective on contemporary reality.(…)Foucault’s specific strength in his courses was the subtle interplay between learned erudition, personal commitment, and work on the event”. What perspective on the re‐codification of migrants and minorities along religious lines and on their criminalization can critical criminologists take from his work and to begin with, from the commentary on Oedipus the King that he offers in his Lectures on the Will to Know ? What is crime, if it is through the expulsion of the criminal – a gesture that is supposed to clean the city from the impurity that endangers it – that the formation of a social space given as the locus of monetary movement and right distribution is completed? Is dangerousness a function of citizenship, and citizenship a function of the formula of government? Is there something like criminalism that would be a layer of state racism? And if so, is this the layer that makes the forms of state racism change with the changes in citizenship?
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Brion, F. (2011). Governmentality, citizenship and dangerousness. The Foucault Effect 1991-2011, Birkbeck College, University of London. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/86242