L'interventionnisme environnemental, une stratégie néolibérale

Abstract

This article focuses on Foucault's analysis in The Birth of Biopolitics of the neoliberal concept of homo oeconomicus, which is no more defined (as it was the case in classical liberalism) as an atom of intangible freedom, but becomes on the contrary a manageable and "eminently governable" man, whose economic behaviour can be modified through an action on his environment. Thus, according to Foucault, the neoliberal governmentality is characterized by the necessary coexistence of an autonomy of the markets and massive strategies of intervention (implying the imposition of modes of subjectivation through the ajustment of an "environment") on the social field. © 2013 Presses de Sciences Po. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.