Young, H. Asking the ‘right’ questions: the constitution of school governing bodies as apolitical (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (2), pp. 161-177. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1062145 Abstract School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research …
Ojalammi, S., Blomley, N. Dancing with wolves: Making legal territory in a more-than-human world (2015) Geoforum, 62, pp. 51-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.022 Abstract As human codings of animals are often simultaneously legal and spatial, it may be useful to bring together the animal geographies literature and scholarship on legal geography. Through a case study set in …
Nicholas Heron, What Is a Minister? Toward a Theory of the Instrumental Cause, CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015, pp. 135–166 Full text on Academia.edu First few lines The problem of the relationship between politics and religion in modernity, Michel Foucault once suggested, is not the problem of the relationship between …
VALDEZ, I. Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban (2016) American Political Science Review, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000647 Abstract This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault’s work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of …
Applications are now open for the July intake of the MA in Continental Philosophy at Western Sydney University. Our MA is an 18-month program that is designed primarily as a degree program for those excellent and promising students who would like to continue in a doctoral program. To that end, we will actively support students …
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