Policy Analysis, biopolitics and citizenship

Panel Chairs:

Ewen Speed, Essex University (UK)

Andreja Vezovnik, University of Ljubljana, (Slovenia)

Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), hcuevasster@gmail.com

Abstract:

This panel explores the shaping of identities and citizenship by policies and forms of governmentality through a diversity of technologies and biopolitical means in a variety of settings. We invite policy analysis papers inspired in (either) interpretative and/or poststructuralist epistemological and ontological underpinnings as a way of promoting theoretical and methodological discussion and cross-fertilization. In terms of content, we invite papers that focus on forms of control and negative biopolitics as well as on forms of self-governing practices of individuals and groups, phenomena of inclusion/exclusion of categories of people and on the constitution of individuals.  Papers can range across such diverse fields as public policy, political science, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and humanities.

Topics can include:

-          Citizenship, rights and policy analysis.

-          Citizenship, nationhood, othering and immigration.

-          Scientific disciplines and practices, identity formation and forms of classification.

-          The body and inclusion/exclusion.

-          Biography and experience of inclusion/exclusion.

-          Discursive formation of categories of people qua service users and beneficiaries.

-          Education and inclusion/exclusion.

-          Bioscience and the politics of life.

-          (Public)medicine and experiences of health and illness.

-          Social policy and the construction of the individual.

-          Personal trouble, social problem, political issue and policy analysis.

-          Health discourses and the constitution of types of patient-users.