Normativity versus normalisation: reassembling actor-network theory through Butler and Foucault
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2020.1780623" target="_blank" >10.1080/14735784.2020.1780623</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Normativity versus normalisation: reassembling actor-network theory through Butler and Foucault
Original language description
Judith Butler is often heralded as carrying on the legacy of Foucault, yet Butlerian normalisation is engrained in a sincere (mis)interpretation of Foucault. Foucault's work on punitive measures defined a historically-limited domain by which one could map out a clustered network of power relations, or what he called a dispositif. By revisiting their differences and rethinking their relationship accordingly, one can piece together a methodological model that is immensely utilisable for actor-network theory (ANT). While Butler's performativity allots agency to nonhuman entities-viewing it more as a dispersed field of agency-Foucault's genealogy contextually places various power relations, particularly pertaining to material and immaterial nonhuman entities. More than just laying out a method for ANT though, highlighting their differences can help us rethink how we visualise the subject, the body, materialism and agency in very innovative ways while also gaining a deeper insight into what separates Foucault and Butler. Alongside this, we can see how their combined contribution helps ANT with (a) its lack of attention given to immaterial entities, (b) its reluctance to deal with identarian politics and (c) the divide between its more performative and its more practical branches.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Culture, Theory and Critique
ISSN
1473-5784
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
61
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
389-403
UT code for WoS article
000553205900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85087348851