Conceptualizing Biopolitics: Citizen-State Interactions in the Securing of Water Services in South Africa.
Conceptualizing Biopolitics: Citizen-State Interactions in the Securing of Water Services in South Africa.
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DOI：
10.1080/01459740.2015.1050490
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发表时间：
2015
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2.3
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Bulled N
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尽管南非有向所有公民提供清洁用水的宪法义务，但获得水和相关服务的问题仍然很大。宪法的承诺和水的获取，特别是通过国家基础设施的生活现实之间的不和谐，提供了一个平台，在此基础上审查福柯的生物政治学概念，通过治理技术控制人口。借鉴在农村Vhembe区在该国东北角的居民的情况下，我研究个人如何概念化的关系，存在于公民和国家之间的责任，在后种族隔离南非，因为它涉及到水的获取。此外，我描述了在南非各地采用的战略，以声音的水权，以及如何看待这些方法。最后，我认为三个主要形式的“水公民”-公民，代理人和主题-影响当前和未来的健康弱势居民。
Despite constitutional obligations to provide clean water to all citizens in South Africa, access to water and related services remains highly contested. The discord between constitutional promises and lived realities of water access, particularly through national infrastructure, provides a platform upon which to examine Foucauldian notions of biopolitics, the control of populations through technologies of governing. Drawing on the situations of residents in the rural Vhembe district in the north eastern corner of the country, I examine how individuals conceptualize the relationship that exists between citizen and state and the responsibilities of each in post-apartheid South Africa as it relates to water access. In addition, I describe strategies employed throughout South Africa to voice rights to water and how these approaches are perceived. Finally, I consider how the three primary forms of ‘water citizenship’ – citizen, agent, and subject – influence the current and future health of vulnerable residents.