Alison Howell
Ali Howell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, where she is also an affiliate member of Women's and Gender Studies, the Division of Global Affairs, Global Urban Studies, American Studies, the Department of Urban Education, and Disability Studies.
Using feminist, anti-racist, and disability studies approaches, she has written on topics relating to the international relations of medicine, technoscience, security and warfare.
Address: Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, Newark
730 Hill Hall
360 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ
United States
http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/alison-howell
Using feminist, anti-racist, and disability studies approaches, she has written on topics relating to the international relations of medicine, technoscience, security and warfare.
Address: Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, Newark
730 Hill Hall
360 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ
United States
http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/alison-howell
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Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still other times benevolent, though not benign. In each case a ‘diagnostic competition’ is traced, that is, a contestation over how best to diagnose and treat the population in question. The book examines the populations of Guantánamo Bay, post-conflict societies and western militaries, identifying how these diagnostic competitions ultimately rest on shared assumptions about the value of psychology and psychiatry in managing global security, about the value of achieving security through mental health governance, and ultimately about the medicalization of security
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Link to the Video Abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD9rciOA8Js&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0HjATApteWJ2KdLD2FMgyn0mOUs_QIH3XNL9XeJuibn06BHHa3CkyrWew
Studies that approach practices of resilience as governmentality tend to ask what the analytical tools offered by ‘governmentality’ can tell us about resilience: what it is doing, how it is doing it, what it effaces, and so on. The reverse question receives scant attention: How can contemporary practices that congeal around the concept or discourse of resilience tell us something about the changing nature of governmentality or the arts of governing? From my perspective, this is a fruitful line of inquiry precisely because the multiple and proliferating sites of ‘resilience’ form a major node of contemporary shifts in governance, and precisely because we now see ‘resilience’ cropping up in a number of unconnected sites.
Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still other times benevolent, though not benign. In each case a ‘diagnostic competition’ is traced, that is, a contestation over how best to diagnose and treat the population in question. The book examines the populations of Guantánamo Bay, post-conflict societies and western militaries, identifying how these diagnostic competitions ultimately rest on shared assumptions about the value of psychology and psychiatry in managing global security, about the value of achieving security through mental health governance, and ultimately about the medicalization of security
Link to the Video Abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD9rciOA8Js&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0HjATApteWJ2KdLD2FMgyn0mOUs_QIH3XNL9XeJuibn06BHHa3CkyrWew
Studies that approach practices of resilience as governmentality tend to ask what the analytical tools offered by ‘governmentality’ can tell us about resilience: what it is doing, how it is doing it, what it effaces, and so on. The reverse question receives scant attention: How can contemporary practices that congeal around the concept or discourse of resilience tell us something about the changing nature of governmentality or the arts of governing? From my perspective, this is a fruitful line of inquiry precisely because the multiple and proliferating sites of ‘resilience’ form a major node of contemporary shifts in governance, and precisely because we now see ‘resilience’ cropping up in a number of unconnected sites.