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... Las consideraciones que presentamos, derivan y se apoyan en diferentes andamiajes teóricos, por ejemplo: la teoría del actor red propuesta por Latour (2001) en diferentes obras; la perspectiva emergentista contemporánea de Deacon (2013); las ideas de Guattari (1996) y la psicología discusiva (Edwards y Potter, 1992;Íñiguez, 2012) y los estudios de la gubernamentalidad (Burchell et al., 1991;Foucault, 1991;Rose, 2019). ...
... Se trata más bien, de amplificar las posibilidades de comprensión sobre el funcionamiento de los elementos que se vinculan a los procesos de transformación que, a nivel de lo subjetivo, operan en los procesos de construcción de memoria histórica. En este sentido, los estudios de la gubernamentalidad ofrecen una variedad de elementos teórico-conceptuales, así como herramientas metodológicas 20 que aportarían a estudiar la memoria histórica con dicho propósito; sin embargo, ello implica entender y admitir, la existencia de una forma singular de gobierno sobre la memoria, que se ejerce sobre un segmento singular de la población.La llamada analítica de la gubernamentalidad (Castro-Gómez, 2010) puede desplegarse, siguiendo aFoucault (1991), sobre cualquier campo que incluya una experiencia fundamental que se encuentre intervenida por el arte de gobierno. Para ser más precisos, el arte de gobierno no incluye de manera directa prácticas violentas para conducir a las poblaciones, sino que ha de implementar otro tipo de prácticas que, orientadas por un modo particular de racionalidad, han de generar condiciones de aceptabilidad en los gobernados; aquí operan las tecnologías gubernamentales, que incluyen el uso de un saber puntual (académico, científico, etc.) sobre el que fundamentan su acción; en este sentido, estas "no buscan simplemente determinar la conducta de los otros, sino dirigirla de un modo eficaz, ya que presuponen la capacidad de acción (libertad) de aquellas personas que deben ser gobernadas" (Castro-Gómez, 2010, p. 39). ...
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... In his work, Foucault also introduced the concept of "governmentality" to discuss the comprehensive nature of governance, as an authoritative attempt to regulate the behavior. The term "governmentality" (Foucault, 1991(Foucault, , 2000 refers to institutions' endeavours to shape individual behavior through various forms of regulation and intervention (Dean, 2009). A governmentality analysis focuses on how individuals are subjected to various processes and become objects of knowledge within specific historical contexts (Nicoll and Fejes, 2008). ...
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... governmentality, fr. gouvernementalité), inspirert av arbeida til Michel Foucault (1991Foucault ( , 2002sjå også Dean, 2010;Gordon, 1991). Rusførebygging kan i dette perspektivet verte forstått som ei av mange manifesteringar av styringsformer i seinmoderne liberale samfunn, der målet er å leie individ mot ynskjeleg livsførsel og optimaliserte livsval. ...
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... See the criticism of Habermas and the historians to learn why they used the public sphere so eagerly (Mah 2000). Also, unlike Habermas, Foucault considered these spheres as places under the surveillance of the power, and with modernization, the power began to take control of people's daily lives (Foucault 1991(Foucault , 1995. 16 Republic of Cyprus Statistical Service, census of 1911, www.cystat.gov.cy 17 Rüger explains what insularity meant for the British, especially in the 19 th century, and he stresses that insularity meant freedom and protection from foreign rulers for the British. ...
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