Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s time in Hamburg has been commemorated with a plaque on the building he worked in. It’s reproduced and discussed in this newsletter, sent to me by Melissa Pawelski. Melissa has also provided this translation of the plaque and the comment, which I share here with her permission. As Director…
Smaranda Spanu, Architecture and the heterotopic concept (2020) In: Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation. The Heterotopic Tool as a Means of Heritage Assessment. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. pp. 239-386. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18259-5_4 Abstract The present chapter proposes the outlining and identification of the main instances of the concept of heterotopia as it has been employed and …
Samuel R. Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) About this book Examining Georges Canguilhem’s enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault’s first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in …
Christiaens, T. Financial Neoliberalism and Exclusion with and beyond Foucault (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (4), pp. 95-116. DOI: 10.1177/0263276418816364 Abstract In the beginning of the 1970s Michel Foucault dismissed the terminology of ‘exclusion’ for his projected analytics of modern power. This rejection has had major repercussions on the theory of neoliberal subject-formation. Many …
Alison Wrench, Framing citizenship: from assumptions to possibilities in health and physical education (2019) Sport, Education and Society, 24 (5), pp. 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2017.1403314 Abstract Within the Australian context physical education (PE) and more recently health and physical education (HPE) have long been ascribed utilitarian value for producing healthy citizens. Whilst this has not been a …
Davies, A.W.J., Souleymanov, R., Brennan, D.J. Imagining Online Sexual Health Outreach: A Critical Investigation into AIDS Service Organizations Workers’ Notions of ‘Gay Community’ (2019) Social Work in Public Health, 34 (4), pp. 353-369. DOI: 10.1080/19371918.2019.1606755 Abstract This paper examines how online outreach workers within AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) discursively imagine notions of “gay community” and …
Aris Escarcena, J.P. Expulsions: The Construction of a Hostile Environment in Calais (2019) European Journal of Migration and Law, 21 (2), pp. 215-237. DOI: 10.1163/15718166-12340048 Abstract After the dismantling of “the great Jungle” of Calais, migrants have returned to settle in the territory of the region. In this article I analyse how different instances of …
Ítala Nepomuceno, Hugo Affonso, James Angus Fraser, Maurício Torres, Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia (2019) Global Environmental Change, 56, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.004 Abstract This paper contributes to the theory of environmentality – the ‘conduct of conduct’ with regard to the environment …
María Alejandra Energici, Afectividad y subjetividad femenina: análisis de la gordura como código moral, Límite. Revista Interdisciplinaria de Filosofía y Psicología, Volumen 13, Nº 43, 2018, pp. 17-28 Open access on Academia.edu Affectivity and female subjectivity: an analysis of fatness as a moral code RESUMEN El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar que en la …
Keohane, K., Grace, V. What is ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’? The ‘Auguste D’ Case Re-opened, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Volume 43, Issue 2, 15 June 2019, Pages 336-359 DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09622-z Abstract What is Alzheimer’s: an organic, neuropathological psychiatric disease, caused by plaques and tangles in aging brains or/and an existential condition affecting the minds of aging persons …
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