Rajendran, P. Parrhesia and clinical practice: A case study of Dr. Esdaile’s mesmeric hospital in Hooghly (2021) Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 13 (2), pp. 1-13. DOI: 10.21659/RUPKATHA.V13N2.05 Abstract This paper seeks to explore the complex negotiation between mesmerism (as unauthorised medical practice) and the State by analyzing the singular example of Dr. …
Perry Zurn and I are pleased to announce that Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press at the end of this month. Perry and I are co-editors of the volume and Perry and Erik Beranek are the principal translators. Intolerable UM …
Gravesen, J.D., Birkelund, R. The discursive transformation of grief throughout history (2021) Nursing Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/nup.12351 Abstract In recent decades, the phenomenon of grief, when you lose a loved one, has been the subject of exploration and discussion among researchers. Because of this, prolonged grief is now recognized as a possible mental disorder as the …
Larocque, C., Foth, T. Which lives are worth saving? Biolegitimacy and harm reduction during COVID-19 (2021) Nursing Inquiry DOI: 10.1111/nin.12417 Open access Abstract Despite the promise to save every life, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and racial inequalities, precarious living conditions, and engendered an exponential increase in overdose deaths. Although some lives are considered …
Wagner, A., Matulewska, A., & Marusek, S. “Pandemica Panoptica: Biopolitical Management of Viral Spread in the Age of Covid-19.” International journal for the semiotics of law = Revue internationale de semiotique juridique, 1-37. 4 Feb. 2021, doi:10.1007/s11196-021-09821-1 Abstract The current pandemic period has triggered a series of changes in society, at both individual and collective …
Riemann, M. “As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary (2021) Journal of Global Security Studies, 6 (1). DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogz069 Abstract IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the ahistorical and ahistoricist assumptions pervading the discipline. Specifically, attention has been turned to those concepts, actors, and practices that appear to be without history and …
Häberlen, J.C. Spiritual Politics: New Age and New Left in West Germany around 1980 (2021) European History Quarterly, 51 (2), pp. 239-261. DOI: 10.1177/02656914211004441 Open access Abstract In the late 1970s, an increasing number of West German ‘alternative’ leftist authors and activists turned to spiritual ideas. A milieu that had once been characterized by what …
De Sá, F. Z.; Gastal, S. A.(2021).Mobility, immobility and a-mobility: to discuss tourism in COVID-19 times. Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo, São Paulo,15(1), 2144. http://dx.doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v15i1.2144 Open access Abstract Mobility has been revisited in recent years, associated with the themes of space, time, territory, and place, but rarely involving Tourism more directly. Analyzing Tourism under …
Dix, G. Incentivization: From the current proliferation to the (re)problematization of incentives (2020) Economy and Society, 49 (4), pp. 642-663. DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2020.1774256 Abstract Incentives are so widespread and seemingly so insignificant that we might simply take them at face value and fail to ask how we can account for their emergence and proliferation. Building upon …
Stephen J. Ball & Emiliano Grimaldi (2021) Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2021.1963980 ABSTRACT This article explores some aspects of the relation between neoliberalisation and the increasing use of digital technologies in school classrooms. It does this in relation to a specific case – a specific school, classroom …
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