Author : Vinod Kumar Rawat
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482839164
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Book Synopsis Knowledge-Power/Resistance by : Vinod Kumar Rawat
Download or read book Knowledge-Power/Resistance written by Vinod Kumar Rawat and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Educational institutes, that is, knowledge factories, apart from producing self-governing citizens, and skilled docile workers, function as minute social observatories that indirectly monitor their families. Michel Foucault delineates power in terms of Pastoral (church and salvation), Sovereign (visible and verifiable), Disciplinary (invisible and unverifiable), Bio-power (reproduction and individualization), Psychiatric (normal and abnormal), and Governmentality (sovereignty, discipline, and government). By applying Foucaults theory, the research investigated the relevance of the Francis Bacons popular dictum, Knowledge is Power, and Dr. B. R. Ambedkars final words, Educate, Agitate, Organize. The insights of the research may benefit the seekers and disseminators of knowledge in understanding the subtle operative modes of the government-capitalist nexus and in advocating appropriate resistance against the pathologies of power.