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Confession as a Form of Knowledge-Power in the Problem of Sexuality
Law and Critique Pub Date : 2021-03-08 , DOI: 10.1007/s10978-021-09287-x
Iiris Kestilä

This article addresses two questions related to the discrimination of homosexuals in the British Armed Forces as illuminated in the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the cases Smith and Grady v. the United Kingdom and Beck, Copp and Bazeley v. the United Kingdom. First, how does the military organization obtain knowledge about its subjects? Two works by Michel Foucault concerning the thematic of confession—The Will to Knowledge and About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth—provide a foundation for answering this question. Second, what happens when this knowledge obtained by the military organization comes into contact with the legal system? In relation to this question, Foucauldian theories of law are discussed, namely the so-called ‘expulsion thesis’ and ‘polyvalence theory’. It is argued that the production of knowledge in the context of these cases is intertwined with the technique of confession. However, the confession does not only operate at the level of the military organization but also as an internal practice of the individual. When this knowledge then encounters the legal system, it appears that the law puts up a certain resistance towards other forms of power, e.g. disciplinary power. It is argued that this resistance is due to the law’s ‘strategic openness’, i.e. the possibility to harness the law to different strategic purposes, due to which law can never be fully subordinated by external powers.



中文翻译:

自白是性问题中一种知识力量的形式

本文讨论了两个与英国武装部队中同性恋歧视有关的问题,如欧洲人权法院在史密斯和格雷迪诉英国案贝克,科普和巴泽利诉英国案中的判决所阐明的那样。首先,军事组织如何获得有关其主题的知识?米歇尔·福柯(Michel Foucault)的两件关于认罪主题的作品:《知识的意志》《自我的诠释学的开端:达特茅斯的两次演讲》。为回答这个问题提供基础。第二,当军事组织获得的知识与法律制度接触时,会发生什么?关于这个问题,讨论了福柯法理论,即所谓的“驱逐论点”和“多价论”。有人认为,在这些情况下,知识的产生与认罪技术是交织在一起的。但是,认罪不仅在军事组织一级进行,而且还作为个人的内部实践。当这些知识随后遇到法律制度时,法律似乎对其他形式的权力(例如纪律权力)产生了一定的抵制。有人认为,这种抵制是由于法律的“战略开放性”造成的,即

更新日期:2021-03-14
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