The Difference Genealogy Makes

Strategies for Politicisation or How to Extend Capacities for Autonomy

Bibliographic Data

ID6345331
AuthorsLyndsay Jenkins (0000-0002-7259-4448, University of Birmingham, corresponding author), Laura Jenkins (0000-0002-5594-4477, University of Birmingham)
Year2011
Volume59
Issue1
Pages156-174
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00844.x
OpenAlexW1871765780
LanguageEN
Citations received51
References cited35

Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them in quite different ways. This article seeks to make some inroads into these debates by re-evaluating the concept of (de)politicisation and considering how academics can themselves participate in such processes. It suggests that (Foucauldian) genealogical critique offers a particularly fruitful analytically informed strategy for politicisation. Drawing on the work of David Owen, it is suggested that genealogical strategies help to address a depoliticising condition of aspectival captivity and extend human capacities for autonomy, without intensifying states of domination

Autonomy · Economics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies