TY - JOUR
T1 - Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex
AU - Klein, Elise
AU - Mills, China
AU - Achuthan, Asha
AU - Hilberg, Eva
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Minds, behaviours and psyches are increasingly and explicitly problematized within social, economic, health, welfare, education and development policy, in both the global North and global South. While this shift is new, it also builds on a long colonial history of the constitution and governance of the ‘psy’. This special section considers these developments through critically engaging with them as human technologies whereby certain cognitions, affects and behaviours come to be made knowable, calculable and amenable to technological interventions and quantification. Starting with the concept of human technologies, this special section also seeks to extend it, troubling the prevailing account of technology’s role as governmentalization by placing this particular power/knowledge nexus in relation to other historical and current forms of power such as gender, race and coloniality. In this introduction to the special section, ‘Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex’, we outline the conceptual and empirical contributions the collection of papers seeks to make.
AB - Minds, behaviours and psyches are increasingly and explicitly problematized within social, economic, health, welfare, education and development policy, in both the global North and global South. While this shift is new, it also builds on a long colonial history of the constitution and governance of the ‘psy’. This special section considers these developments through critically engaging with them as human technologies whereby certain cognitions, affects and behaviours come to be made knowable, calculable and amenable to technological interventions and quantification. Starting with the concept of human technologies, this special section also seeks to extend it, troubling the prevailing account of technology’s role as governmentalization by placing this particular power/knowledge nexus in relation to other historical and current forms of power such as gender, race and coloniality. In this introduction to the special section, ‘Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex’, we outline the conceptual and empirical contributions the collection of papers seeks to make.
KW - affective technologies
KW - coloniality
KW - gender
KW - governmentality
KW - human technologies
KW - psy-complex
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U2 - 10.1080/03085147.2021.1899658
DO - 10.1080/03085147.2021.1899658
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-5147
VL - 50
SP - 347
EP - 358
JO - Economy and Society
JF - Economy and Society
IS - 3
ER -