Current Changes in the World of Work, Conditions of Subjectification and Governmentality

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https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i25.2700

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Work, Governmentality, Subjectivity

Abstract

The objective of this article is to conduct a preliminary study of the ways in which some of the literature pertaining to the social sciences addresses, at a conceptual and methodological level, certain conditions of subjectification related to current changes in the world of work from the perspective of an analysis of governmentality focusing on in the effects on subjectivity that this implies. The research consisted of a content analysis of articles found on the abstract and citation data base Scopus. This analysis demonstrated that a trend exists that posits that subjectivities are produced by forms of governmentality. This in turn opens up a discussion of determinate subjectivities or emergent subjectivities, which is to say of taking into consideration which forms of governmentality foster or provide conditions of subjectification from which certain subjectivities emerge.

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Author Biographies

  • Deidi Yolima Maca-Urbano, Universidad del Valle, Cali (Colombia)

    Psicóloga de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali (Colombia). Magíster en Sociología y candidata a doctora en Psicología, línea Psicología Social, por la Universidad del Valle (Colombia). Becaria de Colciencias.

  • Nelson Molina-Valencia, Universidad del Valle, Cali (Colombia)

    Psicólogo de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). Doctor en Psicología Social por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España). Profesor asociado de la Universidad del Valle (Colombia). Director de la línea de investigación "Narrativas, subjetividad y construcción social". Secretario general de la Asociación Iberolatinoamericana de Psicología Política 2016-2018.

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Published

2018-05-01

How to Cite

Maca-Urbano, D. Y., & Molina-Valencia, N. (2018). Current Changes in the World of Work, Conditions of Subjectification and Governmentality. Revista CS, (25), 137-166. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i25.2700