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'''"Social Economy and the Government of Poverty" by Giovanna Procacci

Table of Contents:
 * Summary of the chapter “Social Economy and the Government of Poverty”
 * About the author of the article “Social Economy and the Government of Poverty”
 * About the volume “The Focault Effect : Studies in Governmentality”
 * Pauperism
 * References'''

Summary of the chapter “Social Economy and the Government of Poverty”

"Social Economy and the Government of Poverty" is the seventh chapter of the volume "The Foucault Effect : Studies in Governmentality." In this chapter Procacci divides class into two sections and calls it a division between paupers and those invested in capitalism and the welfare state. Foucault examines the art or activity of government both in its present form and within a historical perspective as well as the different ways governmentality has been made thinkable and practicable. She talks about how poverty is nothing but the counterpart to abundance. She says “Poverty is the counterpart to wealth in as much as it is the territory of unfulfilled needs, or of needs not yet invented; a territory that extends indefinitely, the symbol of a market without limits.”

About the author of the article “Social Economy and the Government of Poverty”

Giovanna Procacci is Professor of Sociology at Milan University and past President of the European Sociology Association. (Blackdoor Broadcasting Company, 2011)

About the volume “The Focault Effect : Studies in Governmentality”

The volume “The Focault Effect” is based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment. Published seven years after Michel Foucault’s death, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality provided access to a little known and major new area of his later research, accompanied and illustrated by a rich collection of complementary studies by his co-researchers. The volume has served over the past 20 years as an influential and widely cited source, stimulating new work in many fields. (Blackdoor Broadcasting Company, 2011)

Pauperism Pauperism is the state or condition of utter poverty. A pauper is a poor person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity. An example of a pauper would be a very poor person living on the streets with no money. Giovanna Procacci defines pauperism in the following four ways: Pauperism is mobility and promiscuity: Pauperism is a representation of illegal and unethical activities. Pauperism is independence: Paupers are free from social ties. They don't have a lot of responsibility on their head. Pauperism is improvidence and frugality: The state of being poor brings with it lack of future planning. Pauperism is a hand-to-mouth existence. Pauperism is ignorance and subordination: Paupers lack a sense of responsibility and discipline. The book explains it really well - "ignorance of duty and its usefulness" and it is this ignorance which lies at the origin of their challenge to political power, which they consider responsible for their fate, and of their belief in political struggle as a possible instrument for transforming their situation." (Procacci, 162)

References

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/06/giovanna-procacci-exploring-security/ "Social Economy and the Government of Poverty" by Giovanna Procacci “The Focault Effect : Studies in Governmentality”