Brendon Murphy, Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience, Springer, 2021 This book examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia. Drawing on documentary and doctrinal legal analysis, this book investigates how, in the space of a single decade, Australian law makers set out to regulate one of …
Alessandro Baccarin, Archeologia dell’erotismo. Ascesa ed oblio dell’ars erotica greco-romana. Edizioni Efesto (2020) Descrizione Nel grande naufragio della letteratura greco-romana uno spazio particolare occupa la manualistica erotica. Si trattava di un genere letterario importante, che solo una lettura distorsiva e anacronistica può ascrivere alla pornografia. L’autorialità che rese celebre questo genere era composta per lo …
Frias, F.J.L., Dattilo, J. The influence of power on leisure: Implications for inclusive leisure services (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (5), art. no. 2220, pp. 1-14. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18052220 Abstract Many people experience domination as they encounter oppression and marginalization because of power differentials limiting their leisure. We rely on Foucault …
Mitchell Dean & Daniel Zamora, The Last Man Takes LSD Foucault and the End of Revolution, Verso, forthcoming May 2021. ISBN: 9781839761393 In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the southern Californian desert. He described it as the most important event of his life, which would lead him to completely rework his History of …
Carlo Salzani COVID-19 and State of Exception: Medicine, Politics, and the Epidemic State, Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, 12 March 2021 Open access The article analyzes the paradigm of the state of exception which has been evoked in relation to the exceptional measures adopted against the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, with particular reference to …
Adriany, V., Newberry, J. Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy (2021) Current Sociology. DOI: 10.1177/0011392120985875 Abstract Neuroscience has become a new ‘truth’ in early childhood education across the globe, including in Indonesia. This article aims to demonstrate how the alignment of neuroscience discourse and …
Kim, J. Rethinking public administration and the state: a Foucauldian governmentality perspective (2021) International Review of Public Administration. DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2021.1889102 Abstract Public administration as a field of study (PA) has long suffered from a chronic identity crisis. Against such a background, by adopting Michel Foucault’s governmentality perspective, this paper critically examines the key assumptions and …
Minca, C., Rijke, A., Pallister-Wilkins, P., Tazzioli, M., Vigneswaran, D., van Houtum, H., van Uden, A. Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities… (2021) Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space DOI: 10.1177/2399654420981389 Abstract This Symposium reflects on the growing relevance of biopolitical perspectives in camps studies, border studies, refugee studies, and in particular in research …
Bregham Dalgliesh, Critique as Critical History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 Description This book presents the first sustained articulation of a Foucauldian œuvre. It situates Foucault’s critique within the tradition of Kant’s call for a philosophical archaeology of reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault’s thought of Nietzsche over Heidegger and the framing of reason …
Robb L., Deane F. (2021) Smart Cities as Panopticon: Highlighting Blockchain’s Potential for Smart Cities Through Competing Narratives. In: Wang B.T., Wang C.M. (eds) Automating Cities. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8670-5_12 Abstract This chapter argues that the narratives of smart cities demonstrate the potential value of blockchain technologies. Drawing upon competing …
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