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Michel Foucault, power and planning

In: Handbook on Planning and Power

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  • John Pløger

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Michel Foucault has had a monumental impact on social science and humanities since he published Le mots et les choses (Words and Things) back 1966. If one aspect to his oeuvre stands out, it is to many his study of power-knowledge relations and seeing this relation as part of the governing of life from mechanisms like discipline, truth, the normal, and reason. Equally important to Foucault is the study of the micro-power of power effected by knowledge, but also different forms of normation emerging from architecture, discipline, medicine, and discourses. Starting from outlining how power and knowledge are conditions of possibility, the chapter includes an introduction to power as an apparatus (governing, governmentalization, governmentality), a mode of praxis and an effect (techne, discipline, ethos), space as policing and planning as a techne, the micro-physics of power (security, discipline), and power as subjectification (norm, normation, normalization). These entrances are followed by a section on how the concept dispositif is crucial to understand, how power-knowledge relations are generative and become micro-powers.

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  • John Pløger, 2023. "Michel Foucault, power and planning," Chapters, in: Michael Gunder & Kristina Grange & Tanja Winkler (ed.), Handbook on Planning and Power, chapter 4, pages 58-73, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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