Hi everyone,
first of all I'm trying to figure out if dispositive analysis is a useful perspective for geographical research. Furthermore I think about doing further research on creative cities using this perspective. Why are there just a few geographers using the dispositive, introduced by Michel Foucault, although it allows for adressing material and immaterial aspects of ("creative") urbanism for instance? Are there disciplinary, theoretical reasons, path dependencies in geographical thinking with Foucault? I'm looking forward to your critical input!
Best,
Moritz
Dear Felix,
thanks a lot! Peck and Evans are already part of my PhD project and I'm looking forward to reading the other two!
Best,
Moritz
I published an article in 2017 in Geographica Helvetica that might be interesting. Maybe it is a starting point for further discussion.
Dear Mortiz:
I use Foucault to study art district, to explain governmentality and territorialisation of the deserving community.
Wang, June, and S.M. Li. 2017. "State territorialization, neoliberal governmentality: the remaking of Dafen oil painting village, Shenzhen, China." Urban Geography 38 (5):708-728. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2016.1139409.
there are a strand of studies on affective turn and moral subject making, which often turns to foucault.
hope this is useful.
Dear June,
thank you! Many colleagues of mine use governmentality approaches, that also use a specific notion of dispositive. I am looking forward to reading your paper!
Best,
Moritz
Hi June,
my work on this issue is available above. Maybe you are also interested in these articles and the referenced literature concerning governmentality:
Article Performing the Creative-Economy Script: Contradicting Urban ...
Article Assemblage/apparatus: Using Deleuze and Foucault
Article Spillover of the private city: BIDs as a pivot of social con...
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