Open Access"Endlose Transaktionen"
Author(s) -
Markus Griesser,
Gundula Ludwig
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v38i151.474
Subject(s) - materialism , hegemony , governmentality , state (computer science) , sociology , epistemology , order (exchange) , power (physics) , perspective (graphical) , philosophy , political science , law , politics , mathematics , economics , physics , algorithm , finance , quantum mechanics , geometry
What is the use of appropriating Foucault· s studies of governmentality out of a Gramscian perspective for a feminist state theolY? In order to give an answer to this question we suggest four aspects of convergence between Gramsci' s theolY of hegemony and Foucault's studies of gouvernementality. In doing so, we also argue that Foucault's approach to state/power can be interpreted within a materialist state theory. In a second step we discuss how these aspects can be used for a feminist materialistic approach to the state in order to explain both, how state structures are gendered and how the state governs gender and gender relations.