<b>Mitchell Dean</b>, <i>Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule</i> (New York: Open University Press, 2007). ISBN: 0335208975
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Abstract
In the January 2008 issue of Foucault Studies, Colin Gordon and Jacques Donzelot offer an evaluation of governmentality scholarship since the landmark 1991 publication of The Foucault Effect.In this conversation, Gordon and Donzelot articulate concerns over how Foucault's perspectives on liberalism and government have been taken up over the past two decades.Donzelot claims that while the analysis of neoliberal governmentality has yielded many important insights it has also tended to flatten the innovative and critical potential of Foucault's approach.They both agree that in some cases this has lead to an exaggerated focus on the "technical" as opposed to the "political" aspects of neo-liberalism, as well as a kind of "ambivalent" "rationalization" of its central rationalities. 1 Mitchell Dean's book represents an attempt to address these concerns.For readers not familiar with Dean, he has been one of the leading scholars in governmentality studies since the early 1990s.In Governing Societies he moves away from the more systematized "analytics of government" approach developed within his previous work and instead embarks on a detailed engagement with the political dimension of liberal powers.His overarching claim within Governing Societies is that mainstream social science narratives as well as perspectives in governmentality have failed to adequately apprehend the rapid changes in domestic and international governance in the post 9/11 era due to their failure to engage it politically --that is, "as something concerned with power, confrontation and appropriation, with struggle resistance and combat, and with the use and threat of force". 2 On the one hand, Dean is interested in producing a sober counter-narrative to social and political theorists who have claimed that neo-liberal globalization has thrown the historical project of governing societies into doubt.On the other hand, he seeks to revive the relevancy of studies in governmentality, which he argues have in many cases become complicit in reproducing instead of challenging the normative 1 Jacques Donzelot and Colin Gordon, "Governing Liberal Societies: the Foucault Effect in the English Speaking World," Foucault Studies 5 (2008), 48-62.2 Dean, 1.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.017 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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