Archaeological, Alethurgical, and Dispositif Analysis: Discourse Studies on Higher Education in Poland from a Post-Foucauldian Perspective
08 Feb 2021-Qualitative sociology review (Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz))-Vol. 17, Iss: 1, pp 110-132
TL;DR: The authors distinguishes and describes three post-Foucauldian strategies of discourse analysis, the combined use of which in one research project is a proposal to integrate concepts scattered in Foucault's various works.
Abstract: At the present stage of the reception of Foucault’s ideas, various theoretical and methodological trends coexist, within which the concepts of Michel Foucault are used fruitfully in empirical research One of them is discourse studies understood as an inter- and transdisciplinary research area This article distinguishes and describes three post-Foucauldian strategies of discourse analysis, the combined use of which in one research project is a proposal to integrate concepts scattered in Foucault’s various works The strategies distinguished (archaeological, alethurgical, and dispositif) are characterized by the different analytical categories, understanding of discourse, and its relations with knowledge and power The article presents selected results of the complementary use of concepts such as knowledge formation, alethurgy, confession, or the dispositif in the empirical research on the reform of higher education in Poland
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors depict the course of the same name delivered by Michel Foucault at the College de France (1977-1978), where the author has developed the genealogy of a political knowledge centered on the mechanisms that enable to control people.
Abstract: The work depicts the course of the same name delivered by Michel Foucault at the College de France (1977-1978), where the author has developed the genealogy of a political knowledge centered on the mechanisms that enable to control people. "The government of the self and others" are questioned along a historical course that resulted in a "reason of State", whose rationality entailed in the construction of sets of knowledge and technologies of power, necessary for the growth of State forces. In explaining the problems that the Polizeiwissenschaft should control, he defined the role of the police as a guarantor of internal order and as a technique for controlling people, invested with specific knowledge, and which constitutes, along with the security and the political economy, what Foucault called biopolitics.
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...The dispositif strategy in discourse analysis derives its assumptions from several works by Foucault, in which he described, and genealogically analyzed, the different variants of the mechanisms of disciplinary, juridical, and neoliberal power (cf. Foucault 1977; 1978; 2008; 2009)....
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...But, it is in the lectures at the Collège de France in the years 1977-1979 (Foucault 2009) that we find analyses of the various modalities of the dispositif (i.e., juridical, disciplinary, and security dispositifs) and their functions....
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Abstract: List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.
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