Kearns, RobinMurphy, LarryHenry, Matthew Garth2007-07-232007-07-232002Thesis (PhD--Geography)--University of Auckland, 2002https://hdl.handle.net/2292/1072Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This work examines the entwining of regimes of visuality within the practice of a liberal governmentality. It argues that contrary to Foucault's belief that practices of spectacle and surveillance signified fundamentally different modalities of power, that rather the two are closely related elements in the exercise of modern governmental power. In this context the work examines governmental power in its specifically liberal context, which is characterised by a concern with the conduct of individuals and populations, and attempts to govern indirectly. The work suggests that an integral element of this indirect government is the production of regimes of visuality through which individuals, populations, and indeed government can be rendered calculable. These theoretical propositions are used to provide an interpretation of four fields of governing in Auckland: the city's streets, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Auckland Public Library, and the commemorative activities associated with Anzac Day. Collectively the work seeks to trace the ways in which these governmental fields emerged in Auckland, and the attempts at ordering associated with these fields. In particular the work focuses on the construction of gaze within each field that was simultaneously turned inwards to order those people passing through, or using, the particular field of governing, and turned outwards as a means of problemising the conduct of the world within which they were embedded. The work concludes that the specific fields of governing that are explored have, and indeed more generally, been produced through the assemblage of heterogeneous practices and knowledges, and have operated in a variety of mundane ways to help produce disciplined, productive liberal citizens able to perform their freedom in appropriate ways. KEYWORDS: governmentality, visuality, Auckland, streets, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Public Library, Anzac DayenRestricted Item. Available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland.Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmThesisCopyright: The authorQ112857660