Brown is very critical of this idea. she argues that law and this disciplinary power converge in the use of law and legal rights to enforce political claims based on identity. So how does her argument work? She says the state governs by what she calls normative and disciplinary critique techniques that form particular types of citizens.
A bad someone is not a good citizen, is someone who isn’t hard working and doesn’t deserve benefits. This is our discourse or a representation or an idea about what it means to be a good citizen.
what does Brown do? She says here’s the state and it governs by juridical power, meaning the courts, crime, justice system, etc. policing and as well, this disciplinary panel. Meaning you’ve learnt to be a certain kind of person. And the state brings this together to say here, here is the kind of citizen you should be.