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Affective Governmentality Through Gratitude: Governmental Rationality, Education, and Everyday Life
Sat, April 10, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
One of the most thought-provoking contemporary developments in the study of governmentality is the concept of affective governmentality, which suggests clarifying how emotions play an important role in the regulation of individuals and populations. This article proposes to examine affective governmentality through the governmental construction and the phenomenological maintenance of gratitude among graduates of a state-run boarding school in Israel. The article discussion exposes the internal logic of gratitude which reinforces a specific emotional reflexivity and asymmetry in the relations between the State and its disadvantaged citizens.