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<p><strong>Trémon, A.-C.<br /> Spatial governmentality and the rhetoric of scarce resources: ‘Scientific and reasonable’ points systems in Shenzhen (China) (2024) <em>Environment and Planning A</em></strong></p> <p>DOI: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241286335" target="_blank">10.1177/0308518X241286335</a></p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong><br /> Since the early 2010s, all Chinese megacities have adopted points systems that allow ordinary people to apply for urban citizenship (hukou) in the city where they live. Although intended for applicants other than ‘talents’, points systems are highly selective. They are used to adjust urban population growth to economic development and to available resources. Based on research in Shenzhen, and combining Foucault and Gramsci, this article makes three arguments: first, points systems intensify the hukou system’s spatial governmentality, in that they set up a competition for scarce resources that shapes self-governing urban citizens; second, they are justified in ways that seek to produce consent, by giving them uncontestable grounding in science; and third, the gap between their proclaimed benefits and their actual, complex workings gives rise to critique, and even class-based critique. © The Author(s) 2024.</p> <p><strong>Author Keywords</strong><br /> carrying capacity; China; citizenship; critique; Foucault; governmentality; Gramsci; hegemony; points systems; population; public goods; resources; scarcity; urban economy</p>
Trémon, A.-C. Spatial governmentality and the rhetoric of scarce resources: ‘Scientific and reasonable’ points systems in Shenzhen (China) (2024) Environment and Planning A DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241286335 Abstract Since the early 2010s, all Chinese […]
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<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-25224" height="300" src="https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/testa.jpg?w=200" width="200" /><strong>Federico Testa, <em><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-the-politics-of-the-living-9781350299283/" target="_blank">On the Politics of the Living. Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms</a></em>, Bloomsbury, 2025</strong></p> <p><strong>Description</strong><br /> Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying our modern experience of politics.</p> <p>Today’s global health crisis acts as a stark reminder that life is at the core of our political debates and dilemmas. We can no longer think of forms of political organization, citizenship and participation without considering the materiality and precarity of our own organic life. Ours is a politics of the living.</p> <p>Within this context, this book examines Foucault’s work on the politicization of life and biopolitics through the lens of Canguilhem’s notion of norms. Testa extracts from Canguilhem’s philosophy the conceptual tools to re-interpret Foucault’s ideas on power, and reconceptualises normativity as a process of the creation of norms that provide tools for political and social analysis and for thinking resistance. In so doing, he uncovers new and important possibilities for biopolitical resistance.</p> <p>Demonstrating not only Canguilhem’s underexplored social and political concerns but also the intellectual osmosis between the two thinkers, On the Politics of the Living is an urgent examination of the ever-increasing significance of the concepts of life, care and health in today’s political discourse.</p> <p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <p>Part I: Reframing A Philosophical Encounter<br /> Introduction: Foucault, Canguilhem, and the Power of Life<br /> 1. From Foucault to Canguilhem<br /> 2. Canguilhem and Foucault beyond Historical Epistemology</p> <p>Part II: Life and Norms in Georges Canguilhem<br /> 3. Canguilhem, Philosopher<br /> 4. The Normal and the Pathological<br /> 5. Vital Normativity</p> <p>Part III: Foucault and the Power of Norms<br /> 6. Vital and Social Norms<br /> 7. Foucault and the “Archaeology of Normalizing Power”<br /> 8. The Itinerary of the Norm</p> <p>Part IV: Normativity and Critique<br /> 9. Normativity and the Arts of Life<br /> 10. The Political “Awe” of Genealogy: On Critique as an Art of Listening</p>
Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living. Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms […]
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Philippe Chevallier, Foucault: Genealogies for the Future, Rice University, April 19, (2024) Panel moderated by Cymene Howe, Rice University
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