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From Race War to Socialist Racism: Foucault’s Second Transcription
Get PDFSince the publication of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, his position on race and racism has received much attention. The focus of discussion has largely been on his genealogy of biological racism as a feature of modern biopolitics. His account of social racism, by contrast, remains largely unexamined. Thus, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct and substantiate Foucault’s cursory remarks of the transcription of the historical discourse of race war into social racism. After contextualizing Foucault’s discussion of racism and outlining his account of two transcriptions undergone by the discourse of race war into biological and social racism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I draw on the writings of the social revolutionary Lev Tikhomirov as well as Peter Holquist’s analysis of Soviet state violence as a technique of population management to give some substance to Foucault’s rather vague outline of a possible genealogy of social racism.
Lucan, Reception, Counter-history
Get PDFThis paper reads Foucault’s 1975-6 lecture series Society Must Be Defended. It argues that the notion of counter-history developed in these lectures depends on a particular construction of Rome, as that which counter-history counters. Foucault’s version of Rome in turn depends on a surprisingly conventional reading of two monumental histories (Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita and Virgil’s Aeneid) as ‘the praise of Rome’. Reading Foucault’s work instead with Lucan’s Pharsalia renders visible a counter-history within Rome itself. This reading demonstrates the ways in which reception theory can usefully illuminate and supplement Foucauldian genealogy as a critical-historical method
Foucault, Sovereignty, and Governmentality in the Roman Republic
Get PDFThe originality of Foucault’s work lies in part in how he reverses the question of power, asking not how power is held and imposed, but how it is produced. In both his discussion of sovereignty and governmentality, though, Foucault skips over the res publica; a form of political organization that fits neither Foucault’s characterization of sovereignty nor the care of the self. I extend Foucault’s discussion to identify a ratio of government around the discipline of ownership by which the res publica was made intelligible, its relations understood, and its logic organized. I end by suggesting some implications for neo-Roman interpretations of liberty as non-domination
An Urgent Need for More Ethnographic Study of Business Creation
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The Ethnography of versus for Question in an Anthropology of/for Business
Get PDFThis special-themed edition of the Journal of Business Anthropology critically examines the borders and crossovers between an anthropology of business (which I term 'non-consultant anthropology') and anthropologies for business ('consultant anthropology'). In the pages that follow authors consider the unique and valuable contributions of these varied approaches and their impacts on our understanding of business organizations and industries. In this introduction, I seek to focus on some of the issues faced by anthropologists ‘of’ and ‘for’ business who ‘study up’ when they prepare for, write about and conduct research in relation to businesses. I position and discuss the contribution of the authors in this volume amidst a broader discussion about how anthropologists approach or address organisations as field sites. As such, this introduction also provides a guide for anthropologists who study or are considering to study or work for businesses. My hope is that this volume will address and expose some of the assumptions and misunderstandings that tend to arise among anthropologists and laypeople in regards to business-related anthropology
Forms of Expectations about Future Returns*
Get PDF* Comment on Egbert, Henrik, “Pay-What-You-Want Pricing,” in this issue
Afklaring af ledelsesrum mellem politikere og embedsmænd: Hvordan og hvor meget?
Get PDF”Du afklarer dit ledelsesrum med den politiske leder.” Sådan lød den første anbefaling i kodekset for god offentlig topledelse i Danmark, da det blev udformet i 2005. Kodekset blev præsenteret som et forsøg på at gøre det klart, hvad der kendetegner ”forudsætning[erne] for at løfte de udfordringer, som den offentlige sektor står overfor i dag og i fremtiden” (Forum for Offentlig Topledelse 2005, 6). Der er nu gået 10 år, og i denne artikel afdækkes om afklaring af ledelsesrum faktisk er blevet et væsentligt element i samspillet mellem politikere og topembedsmænd. Artiklen er baseret på en spørgeskemaundersøgelse foretaget i foråret 2015. Centrale spørgsmåler, hvordan opgaver fordeles mellem topembedsmænd og politikere, hvor enige disse aktører er om ledelsesrummet,hvor ofte de diskuterer ledelsesrummet og endelig hvilken betydning organisationens omgivelser har for ledelsesrummet. Artiklen konkluderer, at ledelsesrummet langt fra altid afklares, men samtidig oplever størsteparten af de adspurgte ledere, at der er enighed mellem offentlige ledere og politikerne om ledelsesrummet. Samtidig ser vi, at omgivelsernes stabilitet spiller en væsentlig rolle i kommunerne. Her ser vi, at ustabile omgivelser medfører en større enighed mellem offentlige ledere og politikere om rollefordelingen
