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Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Specialist Group of The Post-Structuralism & Radical Politics post-structuralism & radical politics Specialist Group of the PSA Group Convenor Alan Finlayson Department of Political Theory and Government University of Wales Swansea Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP Email: [email protected] Newsletter Editor James Martin newsletter Department of Social Policy & Politics Goldsmiths College University of London no. 2, june 2000 New Cross London SE14 6NW Email: [email protected] Visit our web site: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/psrpsg/ where this Newsletter is available as a PDF document editorial identity, politics and so on. This can be put down Alan Finlayson to watching too many Open University programmes as a teenager and to the common I don’t need to tell anyone reading this about the tendency of straight, white, middle-class boys to disciplinary technologies that are rapidly extending appropriate the struggles of Latin Americans or themselves into our workplaces. QAA and the urban community theatre groups. But, whatever ‘benchmarking’ of subject specifications are a my subjective motivations the objective necessity headache for all of us. The ease with which they of opening up the social to wider ranging can be employed as textbook examples of contestation persists. We can do this in our ‘governmentality’ hardly compensates for the everyday lives as customers of the UK state but we increased workload they demand. should also be doing it in our work lives and in our teaching. But where there is normalisation there is also the opportunity for subversion. The QAA Coming from a sociology/cultural studies sort of benchmarking statement for politics and background I was somewhat surprised to discover international relations is satisfyingly vague. It how narrow departments of politics are. The specifies, for example, that undergraduates should benchmarking statement, perhaps, offers an typically be taught to critically engage with opportunity to open up the boundaries of what is ‘definitions of the boundaries of the political’. taught as politics. From a theoretical stance this Unfortunately it does not specify that this should might entail the attempt to promote the also be a typical level of achievement for academic recognition that politics is itself the foundational staff. But one could make the case that this point of modernity and not that which our epoch enshrines within official documentation one of the must transcend. But it also includes opening up things that those of us under the influence of post- the subject matter of political studies – into structuralism would like to achieve. Granted, the popular culture/media, spatiality, medico-legal interests and aims of each of us are varied. Some apparatuses, the educational system itself are no doubt most turned on by the opportunity (increasingly a paradigmatic example of what to talk about metaphorical substitution. Others get Deleuze calls ‘the control society’) and so on. As their jouissance from sliding up and down on the benchmarking statement acknowledges signifiers. Speaking as one who doesn’t know his ‘Politics and IR reach out to other disciplines such aporia from his asshole, my interests and aims are as anthropology, cultural studies, economics, embarrassingly modest. I find it enough of a sociology, geography, history, law or literature.’ challenge, at the present conjuncture, to simply be Add to this the fact that applications to political; to keep open spaces for contestation and departments of politics are falling at a faster rate challenge the hypnotic effect of discourses of than they are across HE as whole and we can inevitability and the managerialist politics they argue that not only are we in line with the real legitimise. I got into ‘intellectual’ pursuits because nature of our subject but also that self-interest I ‘discovered’ that culture was political and that demands we make our courses more relevant to many of the most significant of radical advances the contemporary experience of social and political come about after struggles on the terrain of culture life. – struggles that in turn challenge us to think again about what grounds our theories of justice, Post-Structuralism & Radical Politics Newsletter No. 2 1 But how open or closed are departments of sender of the first card will receive a copy of the politics in the UK? I have no really concrete DFEE’s latest policy document on HE, signed by evidence to support most of the assertions I have David Blunkett. If nobody replies I shall donate made about the closure of politics departments. my entire collection of Lyotard to the Cancer Anecdotally I am aware of, for example, Research shop just around the corner from my Derrideans who feel forced to go and write about house, quit the university life, take a course on Rawls because they have been told they will not elementary survey methodology and apply for jobs find employment unless they do so. I have heard with the Institute of Public Policy Research in stories that certain departments will not give a order to end my days researching HE curriculum second look to a CV citing publications on post- provision. My future is in your hands. structuralism no matter its quality. We all know that we feel obliged to tailor our applications in news ways that downplay our ‘fringe’ interests and make James Martin us look mainstream but this is not a unique feature of the lives of post-strutcuralists. After all, politics The PSRPSG now has its own mailing list. If you as a discipline is dominated by white males and join, you will receive the emails that all other teaching gender or ethnic politics is not always members receive. This makes it possible to send central to undergraduate degree programmes. But around news, have discussions etc. Anyone can how extensive and how real is this kind of join if they have an email address. Should you find exclusion? Fantasies of oppression are not it overwhelmingly stimulating, or even uncommon amongst radicals. Being discouraged depressingly dull, you can leave as well. However, from teaching a Foucauldian approach to haircare by leaving you don’t get any news and info regimes in the hardly counts as the greatest of from/about the group since the mailing list has contemporary human rights violations. So perhaps now taken over as the group’s principal form of I am imagining it all, desperate to avoid the communication. The PSA-run ‘discussion group’ Hegelian ‘loss of the loss’ that Zizek sometimes has now been dropped (owing, in part, to a bangs on about. worrying lack of discussion). So I want the people who read this (both of you) to provide me with some facts. Do we Go on, have a look. The website is: actually have any evidence that qualified people with interests in non-traditional approaches to http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/poststruc- political theory or analysis are marginalized? Are radpols/ you prevented from teaching certain topics, texts or themes? Have you tried to convince colleagues Also, the PSRPSG website has now moved. It is to critically evaluate ‘definitions of the boundaries now located at : of the political’ and found them scowling? Of course such questions do not apply solely to post- http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/psrpsg/ structuralists. What about the status of contemporary feminist theory, media studies, the Tell your friends, students, etc. politics of literature and so on – do you have evidence that these are or are not being * encouraged. Answers to these questions could comment: politics and governmentality help this specialist group fulfil one of its key aims: Barry Hindess, Professor of Political Science, Australian to support and defend post-structuralists within National University, Canberra. the discipline of politics in the UK. Maybe I’m Michel Foucault's studies of the political rationality wrong and there is no need to do any such thing. of modern government have inspired a substantial Or maybe, because of the individualised nature of body of academic work devoted to the analysis of our work lives, such a collectivist intention has no liberal and neo-liberal government in the societies solid grounding on which to build itself. Perhaps you are quite content now you have your research grant to travel to Paris next semester and consequently unconcerned with anything as mundane as the curriculum. Either way, as usual, * answers on a postcard to Alan Finlayson, A longer version of this comment will appear in the Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. I am grateful to the editors Department of Politics, University of Wales (Kate Nash and Alan Scott) for permission to make use of it Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales. The here. Post-Structuralism & Radical Politics Newsletter No. 2 2 of the modern West.1 A curious feature of this subordinating it to some external principle of development is that the Foucaultian study of legitimacy but rather with the work of conducting government has been taken up largely by the affairs of the population in the interests of the sociologists and historians while in departments of whole. Government, in this sense, is not restricted Government and Political Science Foucault is to the work of the government and the agencies it treated largely as a philosopher or normative controls. Much of it will also be performed by theorist who has little to contribute to the agencies of other kinds, by elements of what is substantive analysis of politics. now called civil society: churches, employers, financial institutions, legal and medical One reason why these studies have not been taken professionals, voluntary associations. The work of up in such departments is surely to be found in the governing the state as a whole, then, extends far intellectually conservative character of political beyond the institutions of the state itself.
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