Abstract

SUAREZ RUIZ, Hero. Governmentality and Resistance to Neoliberalism in the Work of Michel Foucault. An Attempt to Free Us from Ourselves. Diánoia [online]. 2020, vol.65, n.85, pp.3-28.  Epub Mar 19, 2021. ISSN 0185-2450.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704913e.2020.85.1845.

This article examines the relations between subjectivity and governmentality in the work of Michel Foucault in order to clarify the elements involved in his strategy to escape from neoliberal forms of subjectivation. Thus, i examine how subjectivity emerges from the tension between being a control device and at the same time a place of resistance. Foucault's strategy is based on the understanding of processes of nationalization and State practices, from which we might understand how we have become what we are and, on this basis, resist the processes of subjectivation promoted by state practices.

Keywords : subjectivation; statalization; self-care; helplessness; population.