Roundtable Workshop: Foucault’s Historical Imaginary Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault’s thought in the contemporary humanities and social sciences, including in history, and the clearly historical nature of his most widely read works, Foucault’s historical method remains relatively under-explored. We invite you to join Alison Downham Moore (Western Sydney University), Stuart Elden (Warwick University) …
Jun, M. The Creation of a Docile Body: What Makes the Practice of Chhaupadi Persistent? (2022) Asian Women, 38 (1), pp. 107-126. DOI: 10.14431/aw.2022.3.38.1.107 Abstract Chhaupadi is a Nepalese patriarchal custom that prohibits menstruating women from participating in daily routines, such as entering houses and temples, touching living plants, cattle, and taps, and eating dairy …
Shai Gortler, The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization. Contemporary Polital Theory (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00537-2 Abstract The texts of Walid Daka, a Palestinian political prisoner incarcerated since 1986, challenge the notion that colonial power ends with decolonization and expose the shortcomings of examining colonial prisons solely through the eliminatory prism of death and deprivation. Studying Daka’s …
Shai Gortler, (2022). Participatory panopticon: Thomas Mott Osborne’s prison democracy. Constellations, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12641 Open access Thomas Mott Osborne’s early-20th-century experiment in prison democracy shows us how domination can be disguised as participation. Osborne knew a thing or two about disguise. As the mayor of Auburn, NY, he would go about his business in …
Macherey, Pierre. “Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?” Theory, Culture & Society, (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221084903. Abstract A ‘way out’ expresses a movement which looks completely different depending on whether one views it prospectively or retrospectively: in the first instance, it signifies ‘to emerge from’, which suggests a relationship of continuity; in the second …
Hansen, M.P., Triantafillou, P. Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity (2022) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310221078926 Abstract This article seeks to provide a set of pointers for methodological reflections on Foucauldian-inspired analyses of the exercise of power. Michel Foucault deliberately eschewed methodological schemata, which …
The legacy of deconstructivism “makes me want to retreat to the back of the room” says Bernard Tschumi Tom Ravenscroft | Dezeen, 23 May 2022 Deconstructivism was built on intellectual rigour and a desire for exploration that contemporary architects do not share, says French-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi in this exclusive interview as part of our …
Mills, J.P., Gearity, B., Kuklick, C., Bible, J. Making Foucault coach: turning post-structural assumptions into coaching praxis (2022) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2057696 Abstract Foucauldian-inspired coaching practices have been a recent focus in the Foucauldian coaching studies literature. There can be no denying the emergence of a number of ethical coaching practices in synergy with …
Salinas-Arreortua, L.A., Alcantar-García, E.A. Reflexions on public space from disciplinary and regulatory mechanisms statement by Foucault [Reflexiones sobre el espacio público desde los mecanismos disciplinarios y de regulación enunciados por Foucault] (2022) Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 34 (2), pp. 817-834. DOI: 10.5209/aris.75811 Abstract Public space, understood as a space for socialization and construction of critical …
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