Sifakakis, P., Tsatsaroni, A., Sarakinioti, A., Kourou, M. Governance and knowledge transformations in educational administration: Greek responses to global policies (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 35-67. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040377 Abstract This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the …
Call for book proposals: Theory as method in education research From the Social Theory Applied blog, 2 January 2016 Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Mark Murphy is currently in negotiations with a book publisher regarding a potential book series on the topic: Theory as …
Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds), Foucault and Neoliberalism, Polity Press, 2016 Description Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault …
Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self. Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Translated by Graham Burchell Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini Introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 …
Gordon Hull, Foucault, Descartes and Monastic Subjectivity, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 07 January 2016 Extracts [,,,] So Descartes is an Augustinian, at least on this point. What I’d like to do here is point out that Foucault further situates Descartes in a traditional Catholic framework of confession. Recall that, in general, On the …
Hardy C., Maguire S. Organizing risk: Discourse, power, and “riskification” (2016) Academy of Management Review, 41 (1), pp. 80-108. DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0106 Abstract Drawing on the work of Foucault, we develop an integrated framework for understanding how risk is organized in three different modes: prospectively, in real time, and retrospectively. We show how these modes are …
Vichnar, D. ‘Territories Of Risk’ within ‘Tropological Space’: From Zero to 2666, and back (2015) Fear and Fantasy in a Global World, 81, pp. 55-73. DOI: 10.1163/9789004306042_005 Abstract The essay examines the subversive treatment of discourses of fear and anxiety on both local and global scales to which they are subjected within what Michel Foucault …
Andreas Folkers, Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique, Theory, Culture & Society, January 2016 vol. 33 no. 1 3-28 doi: 10.1177/0263276414558885 Abstract This paper draws attention to Foucault’s genealogy of critique. In a series of inquiries, Foucault traced the origins and trajectories of critical practices from the ancient tradition of parrhesia …
Cristina Chimisso, Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem’s concept of scientific ideology (2015) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54, pp. 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.016 Abstract In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of ‘scientific ideology’. This concept had not played any role in his previous work, so why introduce it at all? …
Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse. Exercises in Genealogical Criticism, University of Minnesota Press, 1994 As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end …
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