Producing 'docile bodies': disciplining citizen-subjects. Issue 10 (26th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stewart, Dafina-Lazarus
• Is Part Of: International journal of qualitative studies in education. Volume 30:Issue 10(2017)
• Page Start: 1042
• Page End: 1046
• Publication Date: 2017-11-26
• Subjects: Black students -- liberatory revolution -- resistance; Education -- Research -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Recherche -- Périodiques; Sciences de l'éducation -- Méthodes qualitatives -- Périodiques; 370.72
• DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2017.1312598
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-8398

Abstract

Abstract: The US academy has been anti-democratic in philosophy and practice from its inception, seeking to discipline students as docile bodies cooperative with a white supremacist status quo. This Foucauldian analysis highlights how the academy's historical and ongoing enforcement of discipline and normalizing judgments made the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election inevitable. Yet, this essay concludes by lifting up the consistent resistance of Black students as the foundation for the liberatory revolution necessary within the academy.