Discipline—sovereignty—education: A genealogy of bioschooling
This dissertation defines the matrix of power relations constituting the internal contradictions of bioschooling as a particular form of educational practice concerned with the relation between the life of the individual and the life of the nation state. Through an analysis of four case studies, I a...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-2006
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| Summary: | This dissertation defines the matrix of power relations constituting the internal contradictions of bioschooling as a particular form of educational practice concerned with the relation between the life of the individual and the life of the nation state. Through an analysis of four case studies, I argue that bioschooling consists of an unstable organization of disciplinary or normalizing power and sovereign force over and above the life of students. In the end, this conflictual apparatus divides student life against itself resulting in either a State of educational abandonment or student retribution. In opposition to bioschooling, I propose a new theory of biopolitics that separates education from the normalization of the state and the force of the sovereign ban. The relation between education and biopolitics in the end enables me to then position student life as constitutive rather than simply constituted by the state. Furthermore, student life also becomes anew model for conceptualizing the revolutionary possibilities of the multitude as they struggle against Empire, and pedagogy becomes a new form of radical, organizational theory. |
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| ISBN: | 9780542901430 0542901439 |