Добруване на социалното тяло: благонадеждни индивиди и благонадеждни общности
Identity and societal security: The art of governing poverty in Bulgaria (1934-1944)

Summary/Abstract: The present study is focused on poverty as a security concern through which certain populations are governed and certain identities or social agencies are produced. Or, in other words, the focus is on poverty as a threat to society and its ‘good order.’ The general theoretical background of the study is the conceptual corpus dealing with the organized practices – mentalities, rationalities, and techniques – through which subjects are governed and subjectivities produced, i.e. the governmentality studies. These organized practices are investigated predominantly in the context of contemporary liberal and neoliberal regimes of government and their functioning in drawing lines of inclusions and exclusions in the social body and as a form of disciplinary and biopolitical regulation of social groups. The particular case which is investigated is the poverty administration and its transformations in Bulgaria in the period ca. 1934-1944.

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