Michiel T’Jampens & Jelle Versieren (2020), Entering the Archive: “Il faut défendre la société” and Michel Foucault’s Critical Archeological Inquiry into the History and Method of Genealogy, Critical Horizons, 21 (3): 240–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2020.1790753 ABSTRACT In “Il faut défendre la société”, Foucault attempted to historicize and criticize Nietzsche’s equating of the social with struggle. In order …
Anne E. Martin, Teresa R. Fisher-Ari, and Kara M. Kavanagh, “Our Schools Turned Into Literal Police States.”: Disciplinary Power and Novice Teachers Enduring a Cheating Scandal (2020) Educational Studies – AESA, 56 (3), pp. 306-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2020.1745809 Abstract The voices of teachers experiencing and reacting to highly-publicized testing scandals are rarely heard, despite high-levels of criticism …
Simon Flacks, Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people (2020) Theoretical Criminology, 24 (2), pp. 387-405. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618774036 Abstract Stop and search can harm young people, damage relations between police and the community and alienate ethnic and racial minorities. In Mohidin and another v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis and others, …
Renate Stauss, Passing as Fashionable, Feminine and Sane: “Therapy of Fashion” and the Normalization of Psychiatric Patients in 1960s US (2020) Fashion Theory – Journal of Dress Body and Culture, 24 (4), pp. 601-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2020.1746515 Abstract This article introduces the little-known therapeutic approach of “Therapy of Fashion.” Piloted with a group of female psychiatric patients …
Lock down and punish by Blake Smith| Washington Examiner, June 11, 2020 The French philosopher Michel Foucault warned that public health threatens the principles of liberal democracy. Our political system, he argued, depends on us imagining each other as citizens working out collective rules to protect our rights. Our conception of public health, however, results …
Zhang, A. Chinese Practice of Foucault’s ‘Disciplinary Power’ and its Effects on the Rehabilitation of Female Prisoners in China (2020) British Journal of Criminology, 60 (3), pp. 662-680. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azz068 Abstract The prison system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been viewed by some scholars as effective in achieving the primary target of …
COVID-19: Narrative economics, public policy and mental health, Annie Tubadji, Don Webber, Frederic Boy VOX CEPR Policy Portal, 10 June 2020 The general public’s mental health can be affected by different public policy responses to a pandemic threat. Italy, the UK and Sweden implemented distinct approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic: early lockdown, delayed lockdown, and …
Maev Conneely, Paul Higgs & Joanna Moncrieff, Medicalising the moral: the case of depression as revealed in internet blogs. Social Theory & Health (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00141-1 Abstract Depression is regularly declared to be equivalent to a bodily illness, yet critics have long contested this ‘medical’ view of mental disorders. Following the ideas of Szasz and Foucault, …
Rakesh Sengupta, “Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi.” Theory, Culture & Society, (July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420930276 Abstract Much has been written about how Foucault’s archaeology of the modern episteme, emerging from early 19th-century Europe, was curiously divorced from its context of colonialism. Media archaeology, as Foucault’s legacy, …
Alexander Kauffman. Manet, museum, modernism: Michel Foucault and modernist art history. Journal of Art Historiography Number 22 June 2020. Open access Extract Michel Foucault’s writing transformed the field of museum studies. 1 As Kevin Hetherington reflected in a recent state-of-the-field volume, ‘Foucault can be seen as one of the two leading theoretical inspirations for critical …
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