Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and the Politics of Language Today Telos Summer 2020 vol. 2020 no. 191 47-68 doi: 10.3817/0620191047 From Editorial summary – Special Issue Telos 191 (Summer 2020): Going Viral By David Pan · Monday, June 15, 2020 We face such danger with every viral outbreak that underlines the unpredictability of our …
Problematic statues and ‘race war’ by Blake Smith, Washington Examiner, June 18, 2020 […] What we are in the habit of calling “identity politics,” and particularly political movements based on (somewhat contradictory) appeals to racial solidarity and anti-racism, depend on a “certain way of making historical knowledge work within political struggle.” So argued Foucault in …
Pandemic Conundrum: To Control Or To Trust? – Analysis, Eurasia Review June 27, 2020 By Yasmine Wong The COVID-19 pandemic has blurred the boundaries between private and public life. Government efforts to discourage socially irresponsible behaviour have emboldened individuals to report, shame, and berate individuals who flout rules. This rise in mutual surveillance erodes trust …
Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence. The Ethical in the Political, Verso, February 2020 Towards a form of aggressive nonviolence. Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates …
Purdy, N., Hunter, J., Totton, L. Examining the legacy of the Warnock Report in Northern Ireland: A Foucauldian genealogical approach (2020) British Educational Research Journal, 46 (3), pp. 706-723. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3604 Abstract Over 40 years after the publication of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People, …
Wynne, L. Empowerment and the individualisation of resistance: A Foucauldian perspective on Theatre of the Oppressed (2020) Critical Social Policy, 40 (3), pp. 331-349. DOI: 10.1177/0261018319839309 Abstract Waterloo, in Sydney, Australia, is a neighbourhood currently dominated by a large public housing estate. The estate is to be redeveloped to be a ‘socially mixed’ community largely …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
While work on The Early Foucault is just about complete, though stuck until I can get back to Paris, I’m today beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’, the fourth and final book in this sequence. It fills in the missing years of 1962-1969, providing an intellectual history of Foucault’s…
Daniel Nemser, Infrastructures of Race. Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2017. See also radio interview with Daniel Nemser Description Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city …
Journal Interlitterara Call for papers Pandemics in European Literature (20th – 21st ce.): Theory and Practice Guest Editors: Nikoleta Zampaki, PhD Candidate of Modern Greek Philology, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, e-mail: nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr, nikoletazampaki@hotmail.com Peggy Karpouzou, Assistant Professor of Theory of Literature, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of …
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