Hassan, N.R., Lowry, P.B., Mathiassen, L. Useful Products in Information Systems Theorizing: A Discursive Formation Perspective (2022) Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23 (2), pp. 418-446. DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00730 Abstract Although there is a growing understanding of theory building in the information systems (IS) field, what constitutes IS theory remains the subject of intense …
Bonnie Evans, Beyond neurodiversity: The dangers of ‘reducing diversity to brain-based distinctions’ Genetic Literacy Project, March 30, 2022 The concept of ‘neurodiversity’ has gained enormous cultural influence in recent years. Computer scientists and ‘techies’ wear the ‘neurodiverse’ label with pride; businesses are building ‘neurodiverse’ workforces; scriptwriters strive to represent and cast ‘neurodivergent’ people. Those framed …
Fathzadeh, F. Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway (2022) Women’s Studies International Forum, 92, art. no. 102577, . DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102577 Abstract With reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of power and freedom, this article draws on narrative interviews with Iranian immigrant women living in Norway to explore …
Lorek-Jezińska, E., Strehlau, N., Więckowska, K. Altering Authorships: Absences and Presences of Authors in Contemporary Culture (2021) Avant, 12 (3) DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.07 Abstract This article serves as an introduction to the anthology devoted to the study of altering author-ships in contemporary literature and culture. Drawing attention to the influence of Roland Barthes’s and Michel Foucault’s …
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Elisabetta Basso,?Young Foucault:?The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955?- Columbia University Press, September 2022, translated by Marie Satya McDonough, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt In the 1950s, long before his ascent to international renown, Michel Foucault published a scant few works. His early writings on psychology, psychopathology, and…
Flavin, M. Wikipedia = Heterotopia (2022) New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2022.2047800 Abstract This paper analyses the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia using Michel Foucault’s (1926–1984) concept of heterotopia. In Foucault’s writings, heterotopias are both similar to and distinct from the conditions that give rise to them. The paper undertakes a case study of one …
Foucault Lives. A Day Seminar on the Work and Legacy of Michel Foucault Event: Foucault Lives 2022 Date: 25 June 2022 Venue: Valletta Campus As he often said, Foucault never wanted his work to become dead theory or inspire a cult following. From metaphors that compare his ideas to ‘a box of tools’ to characterisations …
Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story. What Reality TV Says About Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) 2022 A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality What do we see when we watch reality television? In True …
Brara, Rita. “Introduction: What Might We Mean by the Anthropocene?” Contributions to Indian Sociology 55, no. 3 (October 2021): 307–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211073723. Abstract ‘[T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.’ (Michel Foucault 1977: 27) …
van Wijk, Berend. “Beyond the Entrepreneur Society: Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Critical Attitude.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, June 2021, doi:10.1177/01914537211017589. Abstract Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics is generally acknowledged as a pioneering study of neoliberalism, presenting it not merely as an economic theory but also as a mode of government. There is much debate, …
