CONTINUOUS ANALYTICAL REFLECTION

BY: Vanessa Tannous

TOPICS:

1. The Disciplinary and

Punitive State

2. Democracy and its

Discontents

3. Citizenship and Inequality

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THE DISCIPLINARY AND PUNITIVE

STATE

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OVERVEIW:

• Modern State and Power:

Weber and Foucault

• Instilling the disciplinary

society

• Industrial discipline

• Prisons and society

• Expanding the penal state

Modern State and Power: Weber and Foucault

“The prison, the factory and the school, like the army, are places where they system can project its conception of the disciplinary society in the reformed criminal, the good workers, student, loyal soldier and committed citizen” (O'Neill, 1986)

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Instilling the Disciplinary Society

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• School is perhaps the most influential factor for children, instilling in them the values of majority society from a young age

Industrial Discipline

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• “...worker

discipline was the

main ingredient

aimed at

improving the

moral habits of the

labouring poor, to

make them

orderly, punctual,

responsible and

temperate”.

(O’Neill, 1986, pp.

47)

The Taylorist System was created during the industrial revolution around the belief that workers were lazy

Prisons and Society

“To punish less, perhaps; but certainly to punish better.”(Foucault, 1975)

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Expanding the Penal State

“Its like a trash receptacle,

prisoners have been thrown away

like trash. The conditions are

subhuman. Go ahead, write that

down: subhuman”

- Chief of Sao Paolo’s third police precinct, cited in Waquant (2008)

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References cont’d

Foucault, M. (1975) ‘Discipline and Punish: The

Birth of the Prison’

Loewenstein, A. (2013) ‘Indigenous

incarceration rates are a national shame’, The

Guardian, 1 November 2013

O’Neill, J. (1986) ‘The Disciplinary Society: From

Weber to Foucault’, The British Journal of Sociology,

vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 42-60

DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS

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OVERVIEW:

• Theories of democracy

• A democratic deficit?

• Conditions for

democracy

•Can democracy be

globalised?

•Are liberal democracies

democratic?

Theories of democracy

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A democratic deficit?

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In the US and the

UK up to 40% of

people are

choosing not to

vote

Australia is the only liberal democracy where voting is compulsory

Conditions for democracy

“Democracy does not guarantee

equality of conditions – it only

guarantees equality of

opportunity”

(Irving Kristol, 1978)

Can democracy be globalised?

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Are liberal democracies democratic?

“The difference between a

democracy and a dictatorship is

that in a democracy you vote

first and take orders later; in a

dictatorship you don’t have to

waste your time voting.”  

- Charles Bukowski

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References cont’d

Huntington, S. (1986) Liberating Theory,

pp. 67

Kristol, I (1978) Two Cheers for Capitalism

Tay, W.S. and So A.Y. (2012) ‘Politics’,

Handbook of contemporary China, Singapore:

World Scientific Publishing

CITIZENSHIP AND INEQUALITY

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OVERVIEW:

• Classical views of

citizenship

• Critiquing citizenship

• Australia: The Great

Classless Society

• Capital and inequality

• Redressing inequality

Classical views of citizenship

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T.H Marshall:

• Civil rights

• Political

rights

• Social rights

Critiquing citizenship

“We may all be human, but

humanity has always despised

and degraded some of its

parts. Humanity is not

one...Human rights...do not

belong to humans; they help

us construct who and how one

becomes human”

(Costas Douzinas 2009)

Australia: The Great Classless Society

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Capital and inequality

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Thomas Piketty (2014):

1. The rich get richer faster than

the economy can grow

2. Income inequality is likely to

get worse

3. Inequality will not self correct

4. Top managers: no evidence

that higher wages lead to more

productivity

5. Balancing the books makes

matters worse

Redressing Inequality

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Douzinas, C. (2009)