(The Daily Star, 2023-10-05) Dr Nazia Manzoor, assistant professor, North South Unimrsity
In Discipline and Punish (1975). French philosopher Nlichel Foucault argues, is It surprising that prisons resemble factories schools. barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?' The observation is part of a Luger argument the thinker makes about the formation of disciplinary societies that are intent on producing subjects who are docile and capable of self disciplining. But the comparison - between schools and prisons permits us nonetheless to initiate a discourse on the politics of educational institutions in our country. If schools are indeed prisons, who are they imprisoning, and what practices structure such imprisonment? (*owned annually on October