TY  - CONF
A1  - Rizvi, Ali M.
T1  - Biopower, governmentality, and capitalism through the lenses of freedom: a conceptual enquiry
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 016
N2  - In this paper I propose a framework to understand the transition in Foucault’s work from the disciplinary model to the governmentality model. Foucault’s work on power emerges within the general context of an expression of capitalist rationality and the nature of freedom and power within it. I argue that, thus understood, Foucault’s transition to the governmentality model can be seen simultaneously as a deepening recognition of what capitalism is and how it works, but also the recognition of the changing historical nature of the actually existing capitalisms and their specifically situated historical needs. I then argue that the disciplinary model should be understood as a contingent response to the demands of early capitalism, and argue that with the maturation of the capitalist enterprise many of those responses no longer are necessary. New realities require new responses; although this does not necessarily result in the abandonment of the earlier disciplinary model, it does require their reconfiguration according to the changed situation and the new imperatives following from it.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 016 
KW  - Foucault
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Freedom
KW  - Power
KW  - Disciplines
KW  - Governmentality
KW  - Biopower
KW  - Population
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24874
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-248749
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -