Abstract

RAFFIN, Marcelo. Racism, Biopolitics and Governmentality. Derivations of the Foucauldian Categories. Prax. filos. [online]. 2022, n.55, pp.51-68.  Epub Sep 26, 2022. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i55.12382.

This article analyzes the ideas produced by Foucault on the issue of racism in order to assess its scope and potentialities to continue thinking about this problematic today, to interact with it but also to discuss with this perspective and to review the transmutations, disruptions and new configurations that racism can currently assume. The argument development examines the following points: the notion of racism elaborated by Foucault and its complementary of State racism, as fundamental transformations of the idea of the war of races and the discourse of counter-history and as epiphenomena of biopolitics; the model of war, the discourse of counter-history and the war of races as the antecedents that, in the Foucauldian analysis, led, inside the European societies and States, but also in an inseparable relationship with the systems of classification and social hierarchy of the colonies, to the idea of racism, or at least, to a certain paradigmatic development of what we conceive as racism; and finally, a series of tentative conclusions about the ideas that Foucault proposes to address and analyze racism, assessing the scope and potentialities of these ideas.

Keywords : Foucault; Racism; Biopolitics; Governmentality; Subjectivity.

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