From the Myth of Self-Government to the Rise of Holoptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality

IF 3.5 2区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Théo Jacob
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A long-standing critique of liberalism is that it is both amoral and anti-communitarian. Bound to the totemic figures of the Law and the Market, the “liberal art of governing” is unable to conceive of social regulations outside this twin rational framework. However, the 1990s saw the international dissemination of State managerial reform—embodied by the slogan “doing better with less”—where entrepreneurial practices coexist with participatory and decentralizing policies. In the context of State redeployment, an emerging strategy is evolving as economic neoliberalism merges with cooperative liberalism inspired by the American myth of self-government. By establishing a genealogy for this other side of liberal governmentality, this paper demonstrates how contemporary neo-progressivism emphasizes “holoptic” technologies. By encouraging a “proactive citizenship” through moral and community coercion, holoptic technologies can provide new resources to resurgent authoritarianism. Thus, the study of governmentality within the field of international political sociology should take into account a power architecture that is based on the local scale and implemented by States in a context of convergence of global political orders.
从自治的神话到整体观的兴起:自由主义治理的另一个谱系
对自由主义的一个长期批评是,它既是不道德的,也是反社群主义的。受制于法律和市场的图腾形象,“自由主义治理艺术”无法在这一双重理性框架之外构想社会规则。然而,在20世纪90年代,国家管理改革在国际上得到了传播,体现在“用更少的钱做得更好”的口号中,创业实践与参与性和权力下放政策共存。在国家重新部署的背景下,随着经济新自由主义与受美国自治神话启发的合作自由主义的融合,一种新的战略正在演变。通过为自由主义治理的另一面建立谱系,本文展示了当代新进步主义如何强调“全息”技术。通过道德和社区胁迫鼓励“积极的公民身份”,全息技术可以为复兴的威权主义提供新的资源。因此,国际政治社会学领域内的政府心态研究应考虑到一种基于地方规模并由各国在全球政治秩序趋同的背景下实施的权力架构。
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期刊介绍: International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.
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