Risk construction from the Point of View of Governmentality Theory
Journal Title: KultŁ«ra ir visuomenė. SocialiniŁ³ tyrimŁ³ Ł¾urnalas - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
The article focuses on the specific conception of the governmentalization of the state and its relation to the contemporary risk society. In other words, the theory of governmentality could be used to analize the construction of risk in the governing of contemporary society. In this case, the risk is used as a means of governing people or as a way of self-governing. M. Foucault presented and discussed this conception in his writings. In late modernity, with the ideal of the welfare state receding, neoliberal principles and objectives became ascendant; they prompted many to take an interest in M. Foucault’s theory on the history of governmentality and emergence of neoliberalism. According to M. Foucault, the term govermentality deals with the ways people think about governing, different rationalities or mentalities of the government. All various ways of the activities employ different mentalities of the government of conduct entailed in related knowledge. The same activities can be regarded as a different form of practice depending on mentalities that invest it. The conceptions of various risks are a part of such knowledge and social actors interiorize them. The contemporary neoliberal governing or, more precisely, governmentality seeks to find adequate reciprocal communication between governors of risk and interest group. The recognition of risk conception and governing must be visible very clearly as a constructive meaning of the theory of risk governmentality.
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Vylius Leonavičius
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