Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations
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Paul McIlvenny
Abstract
The interactional and categorial practices of a prefigurative protest demonstration are examined using video recordings that document a theatrical protest event called “United Nathans weapons inspectors” in February 2003. The chapter undertakes an analytics of protest to uncover how fields of visibility, forms of knowledge, technologies and apparatuses, and subjectivities and identities are negotiated and accomplished collaboratively. Conversation analysis (CA) helps us document the ways in which fields of visibility and modes of rationality are sequentially organised. Membership categorisation analysis (MCA) uncovers the categorial work by which subjectivation is morally accomplished in social interaction. The chapter shows how CA and MCA can help trace the interactional, embodied and categorial practices that are endogenous to conducting the conduct of others and the self, and thus which constitute or contest the rationalities of governmentality.
Abstract
The interactional and categorial practices of a prefigurative protest demonstration are examined using video recordings that document a theatrical protest event called “United Nathans weapons inspectors” in February 2003. The chapter undertakes an analytics of protest to uncover how fields of visibility, forms of knowledge, technologies and apparatuses, and subjectivities and identities are negotiated and accomplished collaboratively. Conversation analysis (CA) helps us document the ways in which fields of visibility and modes of rationality are sequentially organised. Membership categorisation analysis (MCA) uncovers the categorial work by which subjectivation is morally accomplished in social interaction. The chapter shows how CA and MCA can help trace the interactional, embodied and categorial practices that are endogenous to conducting the conduct of others and the self, and thus which constitute or contest the rationalities of governmentality.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- New perspectives on discourse and governmentality 1
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Part I: Intersecting governmentalities in public discourse
- Governing citizen engagement 73
- The discursive intersection of the government of others and the government of self in the face of climate change 95
- The art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters 119
- Governing governments? 149
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PART II: Discourse, practice and prefigurative governmentalities
- Governing safe operations at a distance 179
- Dialogue and governmentality-in-action 209
- Diagnosing transnationality 235
- Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations 265
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PART III: Discourse, policy and governmentality
- Governmentality through intertextuality 297
- Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discourse analysis 323
- Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discourse-analytical ‘toolbox’ of Foucault 353
- Notes on contributors 387
- Name index 393
- Subject index 395
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- New perspectives on discourse and governmentality 1
-
Part I: Intersecting governmentalities in public discourse
- Governing citizen engagement 73
- The discursive intersection of the government of others and the government of self in the face of climate change 95
- The art of not governing too much in vocational rehabilitation encounters 119
- Governing governments? 149
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PART II: Discourse, practice and prefigurative governmentalities
- Governing safe operations at a distance 179
- Dialogue and governmentality-in-action 209
- Diagnosing transnationality 235
- Governmentality, counter-conduct and prefigurative demonstrations 265
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PART III: Discourse, policy and governmentality
- Governmentality through intertextuality 297
- Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discourse analysis 323
- Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discourse-analytical ‘toolbox’ of Foucault 353
- Notes on contributors 387
- Name index 393
- Subject index 395
