Lanuza, G.M.
Agency and Governmentality: The Regulation and resistance of Muslim students in a public high school
(2013) Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 13 (2), pp. 63-78.
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to show how Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality can be used to illustrate the regulation of Muslim students while engaging in self-making in the context of the disciplinary feld of a public high school. Using ethnographic data, this paper argues that Muslim students are not just passive subjects; rather, they are active agents in constituting their identities while simultaneously subjected to the power relations in the school. Towards the end of the paper, I propose certain policy recommendations that could address the problems generated by current specifc form of rationality of government that normalizes Muslim students in public schools. © 2013 De La Salle University, Philippines.
Author Keywords
Foucault; Governmentality; Identity; Muslim; Reproduction
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