France: Defection of the Leftist Intellectuals More readable PDF of document Research Paper from the CIA archives. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/13 !reformation available as of 15 November 1985 was used in this report. Scope note Intellectuals have traditionally played an influential role in French political life. Even though they have seldom sought a …
Thoma, M. Critical analysis of textbooks: knowledge-generating logics and the emerging image of ‘global economic contexts’ (2017) Critical Studies in Education, 58 (1), pp. 19-35. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1111248 Abstract This paper presents an approach to the critical analysis of textbook knowledge, which, working from a discourse theory perspective (based on the work of Foucault), refers to …
Foucault à Münsterlingen. À l’origine de l’Histoire de la folie Jean-François Bert & Elisabetta Basso (ed.) Avec des photographies de Jacqueline Verdeaux, Éditions de l’EHESS En 1954, Michel Foucault participe à une fête des fous à l’asile psychiatrique suisse de Münsterlingen, dont il reste des photos, inédites. Étrange cérémonie, survivance d’un rituel hérité directement du …
Gerdin, G., Pringle, R. The politics of pleasure: an ethnographic examination exploring the dominance of the multi-activity sport-based physical education model (2017) Sport, Education and Society, 22 (2), pp. 194-213. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2015.1019448 Abstract Kirk warns that physical education (PE) exists in a precarious situation as the dominance of the multi-activity sport-techniques model, and its associated …
Murphy, Michael P. A. 2017. “Pouvoir constituant betrayed: a model of abjection in power relations” Journal of Political Power (Ahead of Print): 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2017.1287471 Abstract Examination of the limit serves as a powerful tool for revealing the hidden characteristics of concepts, and also their relationship with other concepts. This article follows the processes of …
Bruno Latour, Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern, Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004) Full PDF Wars. So many wars. Wars outside and wars inside. Cultural wars, science wars, and wars against terrorism. Wars against poverty and wars against the poor. Wars against ignorance and wars out …
Dowd, J. Moments that matter: Educational entanglements and ecologies of action (2017) Review of Communication, 17 (1), pp. 3-17. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2016.1260761 Abstract In this article, I argue that “the freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves” is intimately entangled with processes of education. To understand this relationship, we need to articulate more fully …
Elisabetta Basso, Complicités et ambivalences de la psychiatrie, Münsterlingen et le carnaval des fous de 1954, Médecine/Sciences (Paris), Volume 33, Number 1, Janvier 2017 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20173301019 Complicities and ambivalences of psychiatry: Münsterlingen and the 1954 feast of fools Résumé En mars 1954, Michel Foucault visite l’asile de Münsterlingen, dans le canton de Thurgovie, sur la …
Amsler, M., Shore, C. Responsibilisation and leadership in the neoliberal university: a New Zealand perspective (2017) Discourse, 38 (1), pp. 123-137. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1104857 Abstract We examine how discourses of leadership and responsibilisation are used in contemporary universities to deepen neoliberal administration and further the corporate university’s business plan by restructuring and redescribing academic work. Strategically, …
Steven G. Ogden, The Church, Authority, and Foucault. Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom, Routledge, 2017 The Church, Authority, and Foucault addresses the problem of the Church’s enmeshment with sovereign power, which can lead to marginalization. Breaking new ground, Ogden uses Foucault’s approach to power and knowledge to interpret the church leader’s …
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