Lyness, C. Governing the suicide bomber: reading terrorism studies as governmentality (2014) Critical Studies on Terrorism, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract This article engages with the suicide bomber as he or she appears in the terrorism studies literature. In contrast to sensationalised narratives of the suicide bomber as pathological or fanatical, terrorism studies has increasingly …
Walker, S.P. Accounting and rural rehabilitation in New Deal America (2014) Accounting, Organizations and Society, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract The enabling potential of accounting is explored through an investigation of practices attending the rural rehabilitation program in 1930s USA. The paper examines the attempts of a progressive government agency to encourage the adoption of …
Niesche, R., Keddie, A. Issues of Indigenous representation: White advocacy and the complexities of ethical leadership (2014) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27 (4), pp. 509-526. Abstract This paper explores the tensions and complexities for two principals as they work towards equity and improved social and educational outcomes for their Indigenous students. Drawing …
Ahonen, P., Tienari, J., Meriläinen, S., Pullen, A. Hidden contexts and invisible power relations: A Foucauldian reading of diversity research (2014) Human Relations, 67 (3), pp. 263-286. Abstract This article joins recent critical diversity studies that point to an urgent need to revitalize the field, but goes further by showing the inherent contextual issues and …
Millei, Z., Cliff, K. The preschool bathroom: Making ‘problem bodies’ and the limit of the disciplinary regime over children (2014) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2), pp. 244-262. Abstract In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from …
Mooney, J. A tale of two regicides (2014) European Journal of Criminology, 11 (2), pp. 228-250. Abstract This paper examines two attempted 18th century cases of regicide: those of Robert François Damiens against Louis XV and Margaret Nicholson against George III, which have similar circumstances yet, on the face of it, strikingly different outcomes. For …
Pepper, S. Subscribing to Governmental Rationality: HBO and the AIDS Epidemic (2014) Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract Between 1987 and 2013, HBO produced or distributed over twenty HIV/AIDS programs. These films trace a cultural shift from an early focus on AIDS as a public health issue to be dealt with …
Korycki, K., Nasirzadeh, A. Desire recast: the production of gay identity in Iran (2014) Journal of Gender Studies, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract This paper traces the transformation of sexual space in Iran during the past 200 years; a process which culminated in the emergence of Iranian gays at the beginning of this century. We …
Jusionyte, I. For social emergencies “We Are 9-1-1”: How journalists perform the state in an Argentine Border Town (2014) Anthropological Quarterly, 87 (1), pp. 151-181. Abstract This article focuses on Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, where the local media create a patchwork of substitute social services that form the basis of …
Rosol, M. On resistance in the post-political city: Conduct and counter-conduct in Vancouver (2014) Space and Polity, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract The paper contributes to understandings of contestation and resistance in urban politics, using a land use struggle against a “big-box” development in Vancouver, Canada as an example. It surveys Foucault’s work on “governmentality,” …
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