Thomas Macho and Sascha Rashof, Alone with oneself: solitude as cultural technique (2021) Angelaki – Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26 (1), pp. 9-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2021.1863587 Abstract The essay examines solitude not as fate, sacrifice or passion, but as an experience that is actively initiated, that is perceived ambivalently, sometimes painfully, but also sensually, and that …
Call for Abstracts: Feminist Takes on Post-Truth Politics Special Issue Philosophy and Social Criticism PDF of Call for Abstracts Feminist Takes on Post Truth This volume solicits essays that address the politics of (post-)truth as a distinctive matter of concern for feminist philosophy. Post-truth, both as a political phenomenon and an emergent discourse, has not …
Carozzi, G. Hope and responsibility: embracing different types of knowledge whilst generating my own living-educational-theory (2021) Educational Action Research DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1880458 Abstract For Foucault, discourses shape people’s knowledge and inform how they act in a society. Power over others is legitimated by dominant discourses, a means through which hegemony discloses itself: a given group is …
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Soleymanjahan, I., Maleki, N., Weisi, H. The real America: Representation of American society in Jack Kerouac’s on the road based on Michel Foucault’s notions of institutions, normalization, and surveillance (2020) Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 28 (4), pp. 2913-2927. DOI: 10.47836/PJSSH.28.4.23 Abstract This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the …
Joseph Zajda, Discourse analysis as a qualitative methodology (2020) Educational Practice and Theory, 42 (2), pp. 5-21. https://doi.org/10.7459/ept/42.2.02 Abstract The article analyses the term discourse and discourse analysis with reference to Foucault and other critics. Foucault used the role of discourses in wider social processes of legitimating power, and emphasizing the construction of current truths. …
Remigiusz Ryziński. Foucault in Warsaw, Open Letter Books (Forthcoming, June 2021) The previously untold story of the plot to kick Michel Foucault out of Poland in the 1950s In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis—a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was …
Pele, Antonio, and Stephen Riley. “For a Right to Health Beyond Biopolitics: The Politics of Pandemic and the ‘Politics of Life.’” Law, Culture and the Humanities, (February 2021). DOI: 10.1177/1743872120978201 Open access Abstract We argue, drawing on the work of Didier Fassin, that the right to health can be understood as an essential part of …
Kahan, Benjamin. The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality. University of Chicago Press, 2019. Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of …
Javaid, Aliraza. Masculinities, sexualities and love. Routledge, 2018. Book Description It can be said that societies today know little of how gender, sexuality and love interconnect in dissimilar contexts, and how they are collectively shaped by social structures. Underpinned by the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault, Masculinities, Sexualities and Love examines a range of empirical …
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