Plusieurs théories sociales et politiques avancent que les nouveaux mouvements sociaux participent au renouvellement de la démocratie actuelle, souvent parce qu'ils remettent à l'ordre du jour la question du bien commun ou qu'ils proposent de nouveaux modèles de participation politique. La théorie des nouveaux mouvements sociaux suggère que ces nouvelles formes d'action collective constituent une force de démocratisation du quotidien. Pour celle-ci, les nouveaux mouvements sociaux ancrent leurs actions dans les valeurs apparues avec la société postindustrielle. L'émergence de ces nouvelles valeurs marquerait un changement d'orientation des forces de contestation politique. De luttes pour la redistribution, incarnées par le mouvement ouvrier, elles se présentent maintenant comme des luttes identitaires. À la différence du mouvement ouvrier dont les actions visaient à prendre le pouvoir politique afin de réaliser son objectif historique: le socialisme, les nouveaux mouvements sociaux ont abandonné toute prétention à l'exercice du pouvoir de l'État. Leurs actions chercheraient dorénavant à libérer des champs d'autonomie. En s'inscrivant dans le cadre du concept de gouvernementalité, élaboré par Michel Foucault, ce mémoire explique plutôt les nouvelles formes d'action collective par l'émergence d'un nouveau dispositif: l'État libéral avancé. Les nouveaux mouvements sociaux constituent ainsi des forces de contestation politique spécitiques à l'actuel dispositif de gouvernement. Les formes et les finalités de ces luttes sont dès lors redevables de la transformation des technologies du pouvoir employées par l'État libéral et de la rationalité politique qu'elles mettent en oeuvre par leur fonctionnement. Dans ce contexte, les actions collectives se présentent comme le résultat d'un processus de construction identitaire où des individus se réunissent pour contester l'identité que leur assigne un mécanisme de gouvernement et revendiquer une identité alternative. Elles apparaissent dès lors comme des contre-conduites dont l'objectif consiste à articuler des relations de pouvoir à des identités subjectives. Comme ce mémoire le suggère, si ces contre-conduites évoquent un renouvellement de la démocratie, ce n'est pas parce qu'elles portent en elles les valeurs au fondement d'institutions politiques à venir, mais bien puisqu'elles réactivent par leurs actions notre compréhension de la démocratie. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Pensée politique, Michel Foucault, Gouvernementalité, Action collective, Démocratie.

Title from title page of PDF (University of Missouri--St. Louis, viewed February 9, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-165).

The United States recently completed the construction of a new Consulate compound in an underdeveloped site in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Mexican applicants for U.S. Immigrant Visas, particularly those who had previously entered the United States without inspection, are sent to the facility to apply through a mandatory personal interview. The interview process necessitates highly invasive medical exams at designated militarized facilities, followed by a series of interviews with consular officers. Applicants, many of whom are visiting Juarez for the first time, must wait in the city for days or weeks as they attempt to navigate the requirements. Even as the city has become more violent, the U.S. Consulate mission in Juarez has become an economic driver as it processes more immigrant visas than any other U.S. Consular office in the world. It is also the largest U.S. Consulate building on the planet and the immigration complex is drawing new migrants who are both seeking asylum through it and aiding in its construction. U.S. immigration policies and the administrative procedures that accompany them also serve to discipline immigrant visa applicants long before they arrive in Juarez as they navigate a system built on penalties and waivers. The effects of these policies transcend borders and citizenship, impacting not only the immigrant applicant, but their U.S. families as well. The normalization of violence towards Mexicans and their families is becoming entrenched in a culture of impunity, both in Mexico and the United States. The immigrant processing and maquiladora manufacturing that take place in Ciudad Juarez play a specific role in U.S. / Mexico relations and are representative of the intersection of immigration policy, labor desires, and neoliberal and post-neoliberal policies of structural violence. The United States has developed, in Juarez, an economic development and security program and immigrant processing center concomitantly and Mexico has worked lockstep to fortify this position. I examine this historical occurrence, and the experiences of immigrant applicants and their families, using Foucault’s theories of discipline. / text

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La tesis utiliza la noción de astucia, cuyas raíces se remontan a la antigua cultura griega, como clave de lectura para abordar las dimensiones involucradas en la problemática del conocimiento en los trabajos de Foucault. En tanto forma de inteligencia práctica que sirve para imponerse frente a realidades donde prima la ambigüedad y el devenir, la astucia resulta una noción adecuada para analizar una perspectiva que toma el conocimiento como un producto histórico cambiante en sus formas y destinado a intervenir en la historia misma. En este marco, la problemática del conocimiento es considerada desde los más tempranos textos del francés para señalar la constancia de dos rasgos que le son esenciales: la invención y la utilidad. La invención como elemento inherente al conocimiento se considera en las dos primeras partes siguiendo su desarrollo cronológico. En primer lugar, a partir de los trabajos de los años cincuenta, en relación con un análisis que sitúa al conocimiento en un ámbito deudor de la imaginación. La dimensión onírica, en tanto forma de la actividad imaginativa que no es gobernada por la conciencia, aparece entonces como fundamento posible para todo conocimiento, incluso empírico y experimental. En segundo lugar, a partir de los trabajos de la década siguiente, la invención se presenta a través de la reformulación teórica del problema del esquematismo, a partir del estudio del lenguaje en la literatura, como el problema del vínculo, fundamental para el conocimiento, entre lo visible y lo decible. La noción de ficción sirve entonces para desplegar los elementos sobre los que el conocimiento podrá apoyarse. El mismo recorrido se ofrece en torno a la utilidad. A partir de los primeros textos se subraya el lugar esencial que Foucault adjudica a la intervención sobre la realidad por parte del conocimiento. Comienza así a esbozarse una concepción de la verdad que no busca tanto representar o reflejar lo real sino más bien transformarlo. El carácter utilitario del conocimiento se desarrolla en la segunda parte a partir del trabajo del francés sobre la Antropología desde el punto de vista pragmático de Kant y encuentra, en la tercera parte de la tesis, un apoyo en la concepción griega arcaica de la verdad. La verdad que surge del conocimiento aparece entonces como una modalidad de esta forma arcaica y radical cuya especificidad consiste en ser un instrumento de intervención y realización efectiva. Finalmente, la última parte de la tesis pone de manifiesto la dimensión política implicada por la forma de verdad que aparece con el conocimiento. En primer lugar, a partir de las transformaciones histórico-institucionales en las que el conocimiento encontró un terreno fértil. En segundo lugar, gracias al establecimiento de un espacio que permite “estar en lo verdadero” a partir de la condición teórica del sentido establecida por Aristóteles. La temática de la astucia se presenta aquí como reformulación de la temática de la astucia de la razón hegeliana y la verdad aparece entonces como una forma de sujeción que opera a través de la exclusión de una alteridad que le es esencial, y que constituye un instrumento exclusivo de funciones sociales específicas.

My critical essay uses Foucault???s theory of discursive formation to chart the emergence of the figure of the single modern woman as she is created by the various discourses surrounding her. It argues that representations of the single modern woman continue a tradition of perceiving the female body as a source of social anxiety. The project explores ???chick-lit??? as a site within the discursive formation from which the single modern woman emerges as a paradoxical figure; the paradoxes fundamentally linked to her sexuality. This essay, then, essentially seeks to investigate representations of female sexuality within chick-lit, exposing for scrutiny the paradoxes inherent in and around the figure of the single modern woman. My fictional piece is a work of erotica. It is divided into four sections: The Reader, The Writer, The Muse and The Critic. Essentially it explores the relationships between female sexuality and literature; between female sexuality and feminist, post-feminist and patriarchal values and between literature and issues of truth, perspective and representation. The two works complement each other to illuminate the paradox of female sexuality: one from a theoretical perspective and the other from a fictional perspective. The critical work focuses on female sexuality and its relationship to, and development within, the current social context. Chick-lit, as a new and immensely popular genre of fiction which holistically explores the lives of single modern women was useful for examining the relationship between the sexual persona of the single modern woman and society. The fiction is concerned with a narrower focus: specifically the sexual life of the single modern woman. Through the creative process, it became apparent that working within the genre of ???erotica??? would be not only more useful than working within chick-lit, but more powerful in exploring the themes I was interested in. The creative work draws on numerous points of interest raised in the critical work from, for example, the grander notions of the relationship between object and discourse ??? in this case female sexuality and literature ??? and the female body as a source of social fascination and anxiety to finer observations such as what it means to have sex ???like a man.??? In essence, the creative work seeks to examine the many faces of the single modern woman as a sexual being and to illuminate, on an intimate level, the many conflicts between and surrounding those faces and to suggest that while paradox remains in female sexual ideology, the single modern woman will remain suspended in a kind of sexual paralysis.

Bibliography : leaves 273-293. / iv, 293 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / A study, from a Foucauldian perspective, of the discourses that surround organ donation and transplantation. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Clinical Nursing, 2000?

Freiburg i. Br., Univ., Diss., 2002.

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The Postanarchist, an activist in a heterotopia : building an ideal type is the theme of this doctoral thesis. The main aim is to elaborate a design for the postanarchist figure, picking up its main characteristics from the work of the postanarchist Saul Newman. The argument also bears on two other authors: the post-structuralist Michel Foucault, considered a strong influence of postanarchism, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first author who labelled himself as anarchist and the first to embrace anarchy positively. Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are introduced as mediators to provide deeper understanding of the main authors. The dissertation offers a novel theoretical revision of postanarchism through Michel Foucault and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. It notes the close similarities between Foucault and Proudhon - in terms of concepts of space, struggle, movement, necessity and consequently anarchy; establishes a conceptual net around them and uses Proudhon s thinking to fill the bibliographic gaps in Foucault s writings. The goal is to better understand the thought and the activist practice of Foucault in terms of anarchism and, in the last instance, to better grasp the postanarchism of Saul Newman in order to carve the postanarchist ideal type. Postanarchism is understood as the constitution of autonomous spaces; the notions of space and heterotopias - the Foucauldian space - are central in the dissertation. Accordingly, the thesis is structured by three hypotheses: (i) postanarchism is space constitution; (ii) the constitution of space is a struggle; (iii) to establish space is to survive. The sub-concepts of the dissertation are: movement, necessity, struggle, power subject, body, sign, truth and utopia. The thesis provides an interpretative analysis of primary sources - books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and manifestos - of the three main authors supported by secondary commentaries. It departs from conventions by adopting a theoretical approach inspired by Foucault s solar and circular worldview (and Tommaso Campanella s City of the Sun). This facilitates the fluid organization of the argument and avoids imposing linearity on the content, thus highlighting the interrelation between content and the structure of the argument. This thesis is an exposition, an interpretation that develops new knowledge through the connections and methods that enable us to better know who the postanarchist activist is.