The Foucauldian Concept of Governmentality

The purpose of this study is to explore criticize and understand the discourse and practices targeting vulnerable disadvantaged risk groups in development in the case of Seasonal Migrant Agricultural Workers (SMAW) in Turkey. The study is conducted in an alternative development approach from the lenses of development experts and analyses the development discourse and practices targeting SMAW in Turkey since 2000s. For this purpose the study takes an alternative development theoretical standpoint enriched with post-development approach and operationalizes the research with Foucauldian concept of governmentality. The book analyses the construction of knowledge about SMAW and the construction of power over SMAW in Turkey since 2000s. This book includes the PhD research conducted at the Middle East Technical University under the supervision of Professor Ayse Gündüz Hosgör and Professor Helga Rittersberger Tılıç.