Mathias Rodatz | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Vortrag am 16.4.2011 im Rahmen der AAG 2011 in Seattle
Discourse analysis has become central for studying the governance of urban spaces. For approaches that operationalize Foucault’s broad sense of governing and power, it has led to the inclusion of a variety of fields, documents, artifacts and practices to be analyzed focusing power effects produced by formal or materialized political knowledge: e.g. authorizations, normalizations, subjectifications, spatializations. We will argue that for understanding these power effects, especially within the specific dynamics of urban space, another aspect of analysis should be added: the question of how exactly political knowledge is created, transported and transformed through time and space. Weiterlesen »