Ryan Schram's Anthrocyclopaedia

Anthropology presentations and learning resources

User Tools

Site Tools

You are here: start » 2700 » 2025 » 8
2700:2025:8

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Next revision		Previous revision
2700:2025:8 [2025/04/13 15:39] – Ryan Schram (admin)2700:2025:8 [2025/04/13 17:05] (current) – Ryan Schram (admin)
Line 121: Line 121:
     * We can **track our progress** toward a goal: “zero hunger,” “end[ing] TB” (Ansell 2014; “The End TB Strategy” 2025).     * We can **track our progress** toward a goal: “zero hunger,” “end[ing] TB” (Ansell 2014; “The End TB Strategy” 2025).
     * People’s actual suffering now is de-emphasized in favor of improving, uplifting, raising society as a whole; Social ane economic progress in the **future** is the objective, rather than doing justice to people **today**.     * People’s actual suffering now is de-emphasized in favor of improving, uplifting, raising society as a whole; Social ane economic progress in the **future** is the objective, rather than doing justice to people **today**.
 +
 +
 +===== In-class activity: Resistance to pastoral power today =====
 +
 +In a 1982 article in //Critical Inquiry//, "The Subject and Power," Foucault argues that we can tell that the nature of power has changed, because the kinds of radical politics people pursue has also changed. 
 +
 +These are **"transversal struggles"**: they are global in scope, and disregard differences of policy and political system: 
 +
 +* Struggles against **male domination** of women
 +* Struggles for **autonomy of children** from parents
 +* Struggles for **the rights of psychiatric patients** (schizophrenics, people with mental and development disabilities, people living with mental illness) to autonomy in medical decision making
 +* Other struggles against "administration" of daily life. (Foucault 1982, 780)
 +
 +These are struggles that contest **"pastoral power"** (Foucault 1982, 782). 
 +
 +Turn to pages 780 and 781 of this paper (available through the Leganto Reading List on Canvas and from JSTOR [via USYD Library catalogue]). 
 +
 +* What's another struggle today that belongs on this list? Why? 
 +* Does this also apply to questions of development, either as Gupta (2012a,b) describes for India or in another context? How? 
 +* Earlier in this paper, Foucault states that power in liberal societies operates the same way as fascism and Stalinism, even though people in liberal societies cite these as chief examples of the abuse of state power (Foucault 1982, 779). Do you agree? 
 +
  
 ===== References and further reading ===== ===== References and further reading =====
2700/2025/8.1744583992.txt.gz · Last modified: 2025/04/13 15:39 by Ryan Schram (admin)