problematization

is (i.e. Life, pleasure, freedom, governmentality) a long term event that lasts centuries.

Also refered to as an anthropology of the 'near future and recent past'. Focuses on three objects of inquiry: 1. problematization 2. apparatus 3. assemblage. Each involves a different temporal scale. A problematization (i.e. life, pleasure, freedom, governmentality) is a long term event that lasts centuries. (Rabinow 2009:56)

is a domain of acts, practices, and thoughts that seem to me to pose problem for politics.

the development of a domain of acts, practices, and throughts that seem to me to pose problem for politics'

is a methodological approach (within genealogy) whereby, for any period or milieu, in any text or discourse, one is look for what it is that is problematized, for what is the subject of concern, reflection, and uncertainty, and one should investigate the form which that concern and reflection takes.

For Foucault 'problematization' is not the name of distinct episodes or events in the world. It is an aspect of his genealogical method (HS2, 11... EW1, 117). For any period or milieu, in any text or discourse, one should look for what it is that is problematized, for what is the subject of concern, reflection, and uncertainty, and one should investigate the form which that concern and reflection takes.

is a mode of analysis whose task is primarily to call into question taken-for-granted assumptions and identities and settlements.

The attraction of this interpretation is that it aligns quite easily with the idea that the task of analysis is primarily to call into question taken-for-granted assumptions and identities and settlements. This usage is increasingly common in critical social science.26

Zigon claims that 'moral breakdown' is 'what Foucault called problematization (2008, 18, 165... at 2007, 138 it is merely 'similar to' it), but actually these concepts are very different.

is a problem that arises out of practices which conformis to a quasi-third party model.

is a process whereby there is the relation of thought and reality.

Given a certain problematization, you can only understand why this kind of answer appears as a reply to some concrete and specific aspect of the world. There is the relation of thought and reality in the process of problematization. And that is the reason why I think that it is possible to give an analysis of a specific problematization as the history of an answer the original, specific, and singular answer of thought to a certain situation. (Foucault Fearless Speech, 172)

is a reorganization around a new set of issues.

problematization, n.All

problematization