Spatial rationalities: order, environment, evolution and government

Autor: Margo Huxley
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Social & Cultural Geography. 7:771-787
ISSN: 1470-1197
1464-9365
DOI: 10.1080/14649360600974758
Popis: Drawing on Foucault's notions of governmentality and governmental rationality, this paper examines how urban spaces and subjects were problematized in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Various practices aiming to foster appropriate subjectivities and regulate troublesome behaviours are informed by ‘operative rationales’ that ascribe to qualities of environments and spaces causal effects on the conduct of subjects. Three forms of spatial rationality are identified—dispositional, generative and vitalist—and each is illustrated with an exemplary instance, in order to reveal the mobilization of spatial and environmental ‘truths’ in the government of individuals and populations. Les rationalites spatiales: ordre, environnement, evolution et gouvernement C'est a partir des notions de la gouvernementalite et de la rationalite gouvernementale que cet article propose une exploration de la problematisation des espaces et sujets urbains au dix-neuvieme et au debut du vingtieme siecle. De nombreuses prati...
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