Birtles, M. (2024). World-class education for the few: Analysing Japan’s designated national university corporation system policy discourse. Policy Futures in Education, 23(3), 582-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103241287276 (Original work published 2025) Abstract This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan’s Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames …
Andrew, M. (2024). Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education. In: Rudolph, J., Crawford, J., Sam, CY., Tan, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54509-2_3 Abstract This chapter demonstrates how higher and vocational education have long faced and continue to face a more insidious crisis than COVID: …
Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia. The Rhetoric of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been …
Markoff, B. (2024). Beyond the discipline gap: the role of spectacular state violence in the discipline and punishment of Black and Indigenous children in US public schools. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(2), 132–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2378304 ABSTRACT Education research frequently measures and calls for an end to racial disparities in rates of US …
Fung, C. K. M. (2025). Homophobic media or lesbian memories? Hong Kong queer women’ online debate over The First Girl I Loved. Continuum, 39(2), 363–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2462102 ABSTRACT Hong Kong cinema is known for producing bittersweet teenage lesbian stories, in which young lovers inevitably grow up to be married women leading heteronormative lives. The latest film …
Critique 935. Après Canguilhem. Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie « Ôtez Canguilhem et vous ne comprenez plus grand-chose à toute une série de discussions. » Par ces mots, Michel Foucault faisait de Georges Canguilhem l’invisible clef de voûte de la philosophie française. Pourtant, à son décès en 1995, l’austère historien des sciences ne nous …
Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from within the tradition of liberal political economy. Divided into two parts …
Rovira Martorell, J., Gálvez, A., & Tirado, F. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth. Theory, Culture & Society, 42(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241268174 (Original work published 2025) Abstract The aim of this paper is to present artificial intelligence (AI) as an organ with a role in the production of judicial truth, expanding its objects, …
Jones, Luke, Zoe Avner, Neil Boardman, and Jim Denison. 2025. “Confessions of a Retired Footballer: A Foucauldian Reading of British Working Footballers’ Longer-Term Retirement Experiences.” Sport in Society, March, 1–21. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2025.2470144 Abstract Historically, the phenomenon of retirement from high-performance sport has predominantly been researched through a psychological or psychosocial lens, highlighting the key challenges experienced …
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