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SUMMARY:Foucault\, Governmentality and the Knowledge Economy - Umar Salam-
  DPhil candidate at Queen Elizabeth House\, Oxford and affiliated with Wol
 fson College\, Oxford
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DESCRIPTION:This paper considers Foucault's concept of governmentality and
  asks whether it might be applied to contemporary forms of development dis
 course\, specifically those associated with the knowledge economy. \nIn th
 e first section\, I will examine Foucault's critique of Chicago-School neo
 liberalism and the striking claims Foucault made regarding the Chicago Sch
 ool's "generalisation of the economic form of the market" - firstly\, that
  the market served as a "principle of intelligibility of social relationsh
 ips" and secondly\, that it acted as a "permanent economic\ntribunal" acco
 rding to which the state could be held to account. I will describe how the
  concept of governmentality relates to these claims and explain how Foucau
 lt's understanding of the term differs from that of later scholars. In the
  second section\, I will briefly outline how the idea of 'building knowled
 ge economies' came to take such a dominant position in development discour
 se and review the impact this has had on science and higher education poli
 cies in certain developing countries. I will then argue that Foucault's th
 eoretical insights about the relationship between systems and practices of
  knowledge on the one hand\,and the relations and exercise of power on the
  other may be generalised\nfrom his own critique of neoliberalism to that 
 of the knowledge economy discourse\, and that the political effects of pur
 suing a knowledge economy strategy cannot be disentangled from the concept
 ual context from which\nsuch strageies emerged.\n
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