The Foucault Society, NYC
2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies
Please join us for the first colloquium in our new series:
Stephanie Clare
"Foucault, Geopower, and the Transformation of the Earth"
Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00-9:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409
New York, NY
Abstract:
This paper introduces an analysis of "geopower"--the force relations
that transform the earth--by reading Foucault's _Discipline and Punish_
and _Security, Territory, Population_ alongside the archive of Canadian
settler colonialism, specifically the construction of the Canadian
Pacific Railway in the nineteenth century. Geopower physically
transforms the earth through techniques such as urban planning,
architecture, engineering, agriculture, and surveying--as well as
digging, logging, and marking territory. Its analysis demonstrates that
power relations are not only operative between humans: multiple forms
of life transform the earth. Although geopower subtends both biopower
and sovereign power, it is a repressed presence in Foucault's writing,
perhaps because it does not have humans as its target. This analysis
therefore puts pressure on Foucauldian understandings of power.
Stephanie Clare is a PhD candidate in Women's and Gender Studies at
Rutgers University. Her dissertation, "Earthly Encounters: Readings in
Poststructuralism, Feminist Theory, and Canadian Settler Colonialism,"
touches upon feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory,
twentieth-century French philosophy, and settler colonial studies. She
has published articles in Hypatia and Exit Nine, and has received
grants from SSHRC and FQRSC.
About the Colloquium Series:
The 2011 Colloquium Series provides a forum for new research and
works-in-progress, and an opportunity for both junior and senior
scholars to share new work with a friendly, supportive audience of
colleagues.
To RSVP, please send an e-mail to Shifra Diamond, Colloquium Chair, at:
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About the Foucault Society:
The Foucault Society is an independent, nonprofit educational
organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to critical study
of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) within a contemporary
context.
Website: www.foucaultsociety.org
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Shifra Diamond
Doctoral Candidate
Human Sciences: Program in Language, Culture & Society
George Washington University
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