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Risk, Power and the State - After Foucault (Paperback)
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Risk, Power and the State - After Foucault (Paperback)
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Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and
by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of
programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations
of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is
useful for understanding power, the Foucauldian tradition - with
its strands of discourse analysis, of governmentality studies, or
of radical Deleuzian critique - suffers from a lack of
clarification on key conceptual issues. Oriented around four case
studies, the architecture of the book devolves upon the distinction
between productive and repressive power. The first two studies
focus on productive power: the management of long-term unemployment
in the public employment service and cognitive-behavioural
interventions in the prison service. Two further studies concern
repressive interventions: the conditions of incarceration in the
prison service and the activity of the customs service. These
studies reveal that power, as conceptualised within the Foucauldian
tradition, must be modified. A more complex notion of productive
power is needed, which covers interventions that appeal to desires,
and which govern both at a distance and at close range.
Additionally, the simplistic paradigm of repressive power is called
into question by the need to consider the organising role of norms
and techniques that circumvent agency. Finally, it is argued,
Foucault's concept of strategies - which accounts for the thick web
of administrative directives, organisational routines, and
techniques that simultaneously shape the behaviour of targeted
individuals and members of the organisation - requires an
organisational dimension that is often neglected in the Foucauldian
tradition.
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