Knowledge-Power/Resistance: Beyond Bacon, Ambedkar and Foucault - Hardcover

Rawat, Vinod Kumar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1482839172 ISBN 13: 9781482839173

Publisher: Partridge India, 2014

Synopsis

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 Foucault's theory, the research investigated the relevance of the Francis Bacon's popular dictum, "Knowledge is Power," and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's 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.

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About the Author

Vinod Kumar Rawat, from Uttar Pradesh, has first-hand experience of the subtle police-criminal-politician connections. The long student, and short faculty and campus correspondent life, enlightened him about the web like education-knowledge-power nexus. He acted as a tutor, coach, cadre instructor, power-knowledge mentor, and spin doctor to produce this work. After his team won award for the short film "Girl Education" in 12th Plan Hackathon, he is using film-making as a tool to revive humanity. kprfilms@gmail.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Partridge India
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1482839172
• ISBN 13: 9781482839173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 414