POL378H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Xenophobia, Immigration Enforcement, Transphobia
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Neoliberalism has been used to conceptually draw together several key trends shaping contemporary policies and practices that have redistributed life chances over the last forty years. Through this lens, we look more at impact than intent. We look more at what legal regimes do rather than what they say about what they do. We look at how vulnerability is distributed across populations, not just among individuals. This allows us to shape resistance strategies that have a better chance at actually addressing the conditions that concern us, rather than just changing the window-dressing that attends them. The disciplinary mode of power refers to how racism, transphobia, sexism, ableism, and homophobia operate through norms that produce ideas about types of people and proper ways to be. These norms are enforced through internal and external policing and discipline. Institutional locations such as medicine, the social sciences, and education where standards of healthfulness, proper behavior, and.
