GS201 Lecture Notes - Occupy Movement, Norm (Social), Youth Studies
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Week 11: foucault space, race, and gender. The only way they can fight back is through some sort of revolution: foucault there"s another way that power works didn"t believe it was just the proletariat that would rise up against the bourgeoisie. Post structuralism he is concerned with the idea of the subject, who are we as human beings: racialized subjects, subjects according to gender. There is nothing set in stone in regards to things such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality. Looked at larger structures in society (e. g. schools and prisons) and looked at how they shape people. E. g. madness, we label some people as normal, but others are outside of those boundaries. Docile bodies: the soldier in the 17th century. A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed and improved (136: a docile body is one that can be transformed or molded in certain kinds of ways.
