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SUMMARY:CGHR Research Group: Umar Salam\, 'Foucault\, Governmentality and 
 the Knowledge Economy' - Umar Salam- DPhil candidate\, Queen Elizabeth Hou
 se (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:*Umar Salam DPhil candidate\, Queen Elizabeth House (Universit
 y of Oxford)\, Wolfson College*\n\nDiscussant: Dr Patrick Baert\, Reader i
 n Social Theory\, Department of Sociology\, University of Cambridge. Fello
 w and Director of Studies at Selwyn College\, Cambridge.\n\nThis paper con
 siders Foucault’s concept of governmentality and asks whether it might b
 e applied to contemporary forms of development discourse\, specifically th
 ose associated with the knowledge economy. In the first section\, I will e
 xamine Foucault’s critique of Chicago-School neoliberalism and the strik
 ing claims Foucault made regarding the Chicago School’s “generalisatio
 n of the economic form of the market” – firstly\, that the market serv
 ed as a “principle of intelligibility of social relationships” and sec
 ondly\, that it acted as a “permanent economic tribunal” according to 
 which the state could be held to account. I will describe how the concept 
 of governmentality relates to these claims and explain how Foucault’s un
 derstanding of the term differs from that of later scholars. In the second
  section\, I will briefly outline how the idea of ‘building knowledge ec
 onomies’ came to take such a dominant position in development discourse 
 and review the impact this has had on science and higher education policie
 s in certain developing countries. I will then argue that Foucault’s the
 oretical 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 from his own critique of neoliberalism to that of
  the knowledge economy discourse\, and that the political effects of pursu
 ing a knowledge economy strategy cannot be disentangled from the conceptua
 l context from which such strageies emerged.\n\nTea\, Coffee and Biscuits 
 are provided
LOCATION:Room 138\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Rd\, 
 CB3 9DT
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