An Analytics of Government

2015 ◽  
pp. 9-24
Keyword(s):  
Analytics Of Government

Towards an experimental analytics of government

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Sergei Prozorov
Keyword(s):  
Analytics Of Government ◽  
The Way

The Introduction discusses the way the question of democracy has been addressed in the canonical theories of biopolitics, presents the method of the inquiry and briefly outlines the structure of the argument.

Negotiating Republican Islam

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Johanna Konttori
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Analytics Of Government

The article analyzes the discursive construction of republican Islam by French parliamentarians and the representatives of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (cfcmorConseil français du culte musulman) during the debates on headscarves and full veils. It is argued that even though both parties agreed generally on the need to promote moderate Islam that is loyal to French laws, values and principles, there were also several issues that divided these parties. The article employs the framework of analytics of government and highlights the element of negotiation and the active role of the different parties involved in the regulation of Islam.

scholarly journals Governmentality at the limits of the international: African politics and Foucauldian theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARL DEATH
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
World Politics ◽  
African Politics ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The World ◽  
Analytics Of Government ◽  
Foucauldian Theory

AbstractThe ability of International Relations theory to ‘travel well’ to other parts of the world has become one of the central questions within the discipline. This article argues that a Foucauldian-derived ‘analytics of government’ framework has particular advantages in overcoming some of the difficulties IR theory has faced abroad. These advantages include a methodological focus on specific practices of power at their point of application; attention to similarities between practices of power that cut across perceived binaries such as the domestic and international, and public and private; and an illumination of the ways in which practices of freedom are combined and interrelate with forms of coercion and violence. This argument is illustrated in the context of debates about the applicability of Foucauldian theory to African politics, through examples drawn from Bayart's work on globalisation, the power of development partnerships, and violence and civil war. It argues that deploying governmentality as an analytical framework, rather than seeing it as a specifically neoliberal form of power relation, can not only facilitate the application of IR theory outside Europe and North America but can also help develop a broader perspective on genuinely world politics.

scholarly journals Testing times: governing a pandemic with numbers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Ahmad ◽  
Ciaran Connolly ◽  
Istemi Demirag
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Accounting Numbers ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Analytics Of Government ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Testing Policies

PurposeUsing Dean's (2010) analytics of government, this research explores how regimes of governing practices are linked to the underlying policy rationalities in dealing with the UK government's COVID-19 testing policies as a strategy for governing at a distance, including how targets were set and operationalized.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on the UK government's policy documents, other official publications (plans) and parliamentary discourse, together with publicly available media information related to its COVID-19 policies.FindingsThis research reveals that, with respect to the governance of COVID-19 in the UK, testing has the dual role of inscription for the government's performance and classification for the pandemic risks. The analysis illustrates that the central role of testing is as a technology for classification for identifying and monitoring the virus-related risks. Moreover, our discourse analysis suggests that initially COVID-19 testing was used by the UK government more for performance communication, with the classificatory role of testing and its performativity as a strategic device evolving and only being acknowledged by government gradually as the underlying testing infrastructure was developed.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is based upon publicly available reports and other information of a single country's attempts to control COVID-19 over a relatively short period of time.Originality/valueThis paper provides a critical understanding of the role of (accounting) numbers in developing an effective government policy for governing COVID-19.

‘Securitization’ revisited: theory and cases

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Balzacq ◽  
Sarah Léonard ◽  
Jan Ruzicka
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
Analytics Of Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
Initial Focus

Securitization theory seeks to explain the politics through which (1) the security character of public problems is established, (2) the social commitments resulting from the collective acceptance that a phenomenon is a threat are fixed and (3) the possibility of a particular policy is created. In the last decade, research on securitization has grown significantly. The aim of this article is to evaluate the achievements of securitization theory. First, its main concepts and premises are critically discussed. This article then proceeds to examine the empirical applications of securitization theory to a broad range of issues, as well as the theoretical implications of these studies. Finally, it discusses the main challenges faced by securitization scholars and puts forward strategies to overcome them. This article develops three inter-related arguments. First, notably thanks to empirical studies, securitization theory has significantly developed beyond its initial focus on the speech act. Second, as a result, the distinctiveness of securitization theory currently lies in its capacity to articulate a specific approach to security – influenced by the speech act – with an ‘analytics of government’, which emphasizes practices and processes. Third, securitization theory faces three types of challenges, related, respectively, to theory, method and methodology. The capacity of scholars to overcome those will strongly influence the extent to which securitization theory will be able to make significant contributions to the debates in Security Studies and International Relations in the years to come.

Fighting Fire with Fire

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciara O'Loughlin
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Analytics Of Government

Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in transitional justice. Although much attention has been directed toward measuring the effects of transitional justice mechanisms, discussion of the motivations for and manifestations of resistance to transitional justice processes has been limited. Th is article contributes to this underexamined area through an analysis of the nature of resistance to transitional justice in Bahrain following the February 2011 uprisings. It identifies existing explanations for resistance to and engagement with transitional justice before considering whether Mitchell Dean’s analytics of government approach—with its emphasis on identifying discrepancies between actors’ declared and actual intentions—assists in revealing less obvious manifestations of resistance, such as those seen in Bahrain. It is suggested that adopting the institutional manifestations of transitional justice may, paradoxically, be understood as a strategy for resisting popular demands for accountability and political transformation—the very notions at the core of any transition.

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