Governmentality Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

CMY2602- all the notes |497 Questions| With Correct Answers. the key issues surrounding high risk offenders Kemshall (2008:4) Who are high risk offenders? three major issues of knowing high risk offenders (Kemshall) Risk assessment tools The problem of risk prediction Criteria and evidence for "dangerousness'' Deciding on "dangerousness'' for under 18/ no previous offence dangerous offender (Kemshall) Criminological and legal approaches to risk and dangerousness Psychological fr...

Standpoint Epistemology - Answer "What is true depends on where you are standing" An individual's own perspectives are shaped by their social and political experiences. Developed from feminist theory that women's perspective must be kept in mind. All of the science-making process involved perspectives of men -- female absence from knowledge systems Military Industrial Complex - Answer The relationship between the government entities involved in military affairs and the defense industry...

Standpoint Epistemology "What is true depends on where you are standing" An individual's own perspectives are shaped by their social and political experiences. Developed from feminist theory that women's perspective must be kept in mind. All of the science-making process involved perspectives of men -- female absence from knowledge systems Military Industrial Complex The relationship between the government entities involved in military affairs and the defense industry. Private ind...

Summary of the literature for the course Identity, Boundaries and Violence of the Conflict minor at UU. The summary contains: Identity Matters, Jenkins/ Similarity and Difference, Jenkins/ Definitions, Gellner/ The Archipelago of Fear: Are fortification and foreign aid making Kabul more dangerous?, Montgomery/ Ethnicity without Groups, Brubaker/ Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict and Violence, Brubaker/ Identity, boundaries and violence, Demmers/ Introduction: Violent Imaginaries and Vio...

HSS 2321 Sociopolitical perspective related to health and illness Health: • World Health Organization defined health as “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” • Health depends on the individual's experience; it is an individual issue. • Socio-political: • Politics have to do with power. Power is that ability to act on someone or on some situation • Many examples of politics: it ca...

Overview giving the most important terminology per article and lecture. Definitions of some important concepts, e.g., New Terrorism, Actuarialism, Risk Society, Governmentality, are given. Be careful not to copy anything directly from this document into the exam, as it might give you plagiarism issues.

surveillance CORRECT ANSWERS: to be seen without seeing; to see without being seen governmentality CORRECT ANSWERS: power comes from potential of surveillance, not just actual surveillance normalization CORRECT ANSWERS: constructing and self-regulating idealized norms and behavior under culture of monitoring expository mode of representation CORRECT ANSWERS: framed as an argument supported with evidence observational mode of representation CORRECT ANSWERS: feels like unmediated ...

Lectures, Seminars and Articles: Jenkins. ‘Social Identity’ Gellner. ‘Nations and Nationalism’ Drakulic. ‘The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War’ Montgomery. ‘The Archipelago of Fear: Are Fortifications and Foreign Aid Making Kabul More Dangerous?’ Baumann. ‘Ethnicity: Blood or Wine?’ Brubaker. ‘Ethnicity Without Groups’ Brubaker. ‘Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict and Violence’ Drakulic. ‘The Balkan Express: Fragments From the Ot...

A summary of the lectures and the main points of the following articles: Edwards, C. & Imrie, R. (2015). “Understanding urban policy,” In The Short Guide to Urban Policy, pp. 41-74. Edwards, C. & Imrie, R. (2015). “Whose right to the city?” In The Short Guide to Urban Policy, pp. 75-100. Healey, P. (2006). “Transforming governance: Challenges of institutional adaptation and a new politics of space.” European Planning Studies 14(3): 299-320. Dikeç, M. (2007). “Space, governmenta...

Notes on Foucault for SO100 - Relationship between Power and Knowledge - Disciplinary Power - Bio-Politics - Sex/Sexuality - Governmentality