International Conference “GOVERNMENT OF SELF, GOVERNMENT OF OTHERS. Ethical and political questions in the late Foucault” 6-8 March 2017 IFILNOVA – EPLab / FCSH – Philosophy Department I&D Multiusos 2-3, Av. Berna 26C, Lisbon Live streaming: https://videocast.fccn.pt/live/fcsh_unl/foucaultconference PROGRAM 6th March | Multiusos 3 09h30 – 10h00 Opening António Marques (Director of IFILNOVA) João Luís Lisboa …
Visser, L.M., Bleijenbergh, I.L., Benschop, Y.W.M., Van Riel, A.C.R., Bloem, B.R. Do online communities change power processes in healthcare? Using case studies to examine the use of online health communities by patients with Parkinson’s disease (2016) BMJ Open, 6 (11), art. no. e012110, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012110 Abstract Objective: Communication technologies, such as personal online health communities, …
Sabrina Smith and Matthew Atencio, “Yoga is yoga. Yoga is everywhere. You either practice or you don’t”: a qualitative examination of yoga social dynamics (2017) Sport in Society, 20(9), 1167–1184. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1269082 Abstract Within the context of yoga’s increasing popularity, the prevailing view that yoga is ‘good for everyone’ is often perpetuated by participants. This view …
Observer blog – Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong) will showcase a neon text installation by French artist Laurent Grasso (*1972). Over seven meters wide, Visibility is a Trap, 2012, is a direct reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of Panopticism as elaborated in the theorist’s seminal text ‘Discipline and Punish’ (1975). Picture from the archello site
Springer RA, Clinton ME. Doing Foucault: inquiring into nursing knowledge with Foucauldian discourse analysis. Nursing Philosophy. 2015 Apr;16(2):87-97 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12079 Abstract Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) is a methodology that is well suited to inquiring into nursing knowledge and its organization. It is a critical analytic approach derived from Foucault’s histories of science, madness, medicine, incarceration …
Borovoy, A. Japan’s Public Health Paradigm: Governmentality and the Containment of Harmful Behavior (2017) Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 36 (1), pp. 32-46. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2016.1148033 Abstract In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and …
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