Ville Björck, Kristina Johansson, Problematising the theory–practice terminology: a discourse analysis of students’ statements on Work-integrated Learning (2019) Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43 (10), pp. 1363-1375. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2018.1483016 Open access Abstract This study uses a Foucault-inspired discourse analysis to examine two ideas about learning which reinforce the terminology whereby theory means campus-based training and …
Comby, E., Le Lay, Y.-F., Piégay, H. Power and Changing Riverscapes: The Socioecological Fix and Newspaper Discourse Concerning the Rhône River (France) Since 1945 (2019) Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109 (6), pp. 1671-1690. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1580134 Abstract Riverscapes are constructs that mix natural components with political, socioeconomic, and technical strategies. This article shows …
Day, A. “Almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang”: Nora Lang, Literary Labour, and the Fairy Books (2019) Women’s Writing, 26 (4), pp. 400-420. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2017.1371938 Abstract This essay uses documentary evidence to reveal Leonora Blanche “Nora” Lang’s elision from the history of children’s literature: Lang was actually responsible for the popular Fairy Book series …
Cappellini, B., Harman, V., Marilli, A., Parsons, E. Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism (2019) Journal of Consumer Culture, 19 (4), pp. 469-492. DOI: 10.1177/1469540519872067 Abstract Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently …
Bandinelli, C. (2019). The production of subjectivity in neoliberal culture industries: the case of coworking spaces. International Journal of Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1177/1367877919878449 Abstract This article adds to contemporary studies of neoliberalism by offering an empirical investigation of the production of subjectivity in the context of coworking spaces’ sociality. Coworking spaces are exemplary milieux in …
Call for papers The Sexual Politics of Freedom May 22nd & 23rd 2020 Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway Keynote speakers: Prof Ratna Kapur (QMUL) and Prof Linda Martín Alcoff (CUNY) At stake in framing the theme of this conference in terms of ‘the sexual politics of freedom’ as opposed to …
Francesco Bellusci, Michel Foucault: “Cosa importa chi parla?” Doppiozero, 15 Ottobre 2019 Doppiozero is a cultural magazine, with editions in Italian and English , and a publishing house, online since February 14, 2011. More than 900 writers, critics, journalists, researchers, scholars of different disciplines collaborate in doppiozero, in an ecosystem that brings together renowned intellectuals, young authors and …
Richard Bernstein, Howard’s Way, The New York Times Magazine, Sept 25, 1988 Editor: An interesting article on Richard Howard, the translator of the first book of Foucault’s to appear in English: Madness and Civilization. THE INSPIRATION CAME EARLY, AS Richard Howard, translator of more than 150 books from French into English, once told Charles de …
William B. Ashworth, Jr, Scientist of the Day – Michel Foucault, Linda Hall Library, October 15 2019 Editor: The Linda Hall library is an independent research library located in Kansas devoted to science, engineering, and technology. This short tribute to Foucault’s work on science in The Order of Things, was published on his birthday October …
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