Analyse foucaldienne du dispositif policier à l'ère des manifestations altermondialistes et assembléistes
This thesis pursues Foucault's reflections on the "security society" through an investigation into the theme of the modulation of the conduct of "interstitials subjects": individuals on the margins of powers whose presence and demands provoke concern and threaten the social order. More precisely, the thesis investigates the history of police and its strategies of crowd control as they lead to the adoption of a strategy of "preventive incapacitation," the aftermath of anti-globalization protests. On a theoretical and methodological level, the thesis draws on Foucault's theories of the police, law, and communication, in dialogue with the work of sociologists of social movements and historians of police, with the aim of better understanding the "hard" tendencies and (State) rationality characteristizing today's policing. The thesis will also examine the laws concerning protests, in order to shed light on how their implementation augments the power of those with the authority to enact them. Furthering these analyses of the ratio of security and the tactics of control, the thesis identifies the principal objects and objectives employed to circumscribe the actions of protesters. This is done in order to reconceptualize the different functions now fulfilled by policing and to schematize the constitutive relations of the contemporary police apparatus. The overall aim of the thesis is to produce an "analytic of the present" of policing, and more generally to elaborate a "diagram" of power.
Foucault Police Manifestation altermondialiste Protest policing Counter-globalization demonstration