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Modern Power and Statecraft - Coggle Diagram
Modern Power and Statecraft
Foucault
Discipline
shift away from torture and public punishment to rehabilitation and reform
shift to more invisible punishment
punishing the individual rather than the crime; the individual as a case; deviance from the norm
disciplinary practices of prison shape other spaces e.g. schools
the soul is the prison of the body
docile bodies
produced through hierarchical observation, normalising judgement, the examination
James C. Scott,
Seeing Like a State
making society 'legible'
government simplifies and standardises society
introducing surnames
enforced on society, especially in colonialism e.g. Philippines
enables taxation, conscription
nomadic people a problem for state control; policy of sedentarisation i.e. to settle those people and absorb them into state functions of taxation and conscription
standardisation of language: helps control population
promotes national unity; buy into nationalist project
administratively convenient; necessary for taxation, conscription etc