The discipline of freedom: Foucault, neo-liberal governmentality and resistance
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2014-01-13
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Fleming, Andrew
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Michel Foucault is often is taken to represent human beings as products of insidious structures of power that lie beyond control and perception. This is an unfair characterisation since a deeper reading into his work reveals reflections and even insistences on creativity, resistance and freedom as fundamental components of human experience. My aim is to unify these two aspects of Foucault's thought so as to provide a positive account of political resistance to power relations in contemporary neo-liberal society.
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Foucault, neo-liberalism, governmentality, resistance