An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish by Meghan Kallman

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How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault argues that prison created and merged into a wider system of surveillance that extends throughout society. Today power is no longer exerted directly, through violence.

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An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish by Meghan Kallman

How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucaults Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault argues that prison created and merged into a wider system of surveillance that extends throughout society. Today power is no longer exerted directly, through violence.

Dr Meghan Kallman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brown University, working in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on bureaucratized morality and public altruism. In her spare time, she plays accordion in the Extraordinary Rendition Band, a guerilla activist collective in Providence, RI.

Dr Rachele Dini studied at Cambridge, King’s College London and University College London. Much of her current work focuses on the representation of production and consumption in modern and contemporary Anglo-American fiction. She teaches at Cambridge and for the Foundation for International Education, and her first monograph, Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.

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ISBN 13 9781912127511
ISBN 10 1912127512
Title An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish
Author Meghan Kallman
Series The Macat Library
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Macat International Limited
Year published 2017-07-15
Number of pages 106
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