governmentalisation definition

governmentalisation of the state, by which he means the acceleration of a form of power „that has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge, and apparatuses of security as its essential technical instrument‟ (ibid., 108). Foucault‟s insights about governmentality are important here insofar as they set Spike Peterson‟s insight against itself: protection systems are both participatory and non- participatory, simultaneously remaking and dispersing the state, wilfully insecure and wilfully secure. It is in this context that we might read Foucault‟s characterisation of contemporary state power as a „tricky combination...of individualization techniques, and of totalization procedures‟ (1982: 782). The subjects of this power are both subordinated and „free‟, protected and endangered, participative and docile.
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  • Governmental means any federal, state or local court or governmental or regulatory agency or authority or any arbitration board, tribunal or mediator having jurisdiction over the Company or its assets or Members.

  • Governmental Agency means (a) any foreign, federal, state, county or municipal government, or political subdivision thereof, (b) any governmental or quasi-governmental agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, department, instrumentality or public body, (c) any court or administrative tribunal or (d) with respect to any Person, any arbitration tribunal or other nongovernmental authority to whose jurisdiction that Person has consented.

  • Government means the Government of Kenya;

  • Relevant Governmental Body means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.

  • Governmental Agency(ies) means, individually or collectively, any federal, state, county or local governmental department, commission, board, regulatory authority or agency (including, without limitation, each applicable Regulatory Agency) with jurisdiction over the Company or a Subsidiary.