August, V. Network concepts in social theory: Foucault and cybernetics (2021) European Journal of Social Theory. DOI: 10.1177/1368431021991046 Abstract Network concepts are omnipresent in contemporary diagnoses (network society), management practices (network governance), social science methods (network analysis) and theories (network theory). Instigating a critical analysis of network concepts, this article explores the sources and relevance …
Powell, D. Critical ethnography in schools: reflections on power, positionality, and privilege (2021) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2021.1888160 Abstract This paper is a critical reflection of a critical ethnography, a study focused on how ‘healthy lifestyle education’ programmes were implemented and experienced in two primary schools. In an attempt to disrupt …
Fawzy, R.M. Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital: A Semio-Foucauldian Landscape Analysis (2021) Space and Culture. DOI: 10.1177/1206331221991323 Abstract Signs in the urban landscapes are never neutral; they always enact connections to power relations and social hierarchies. By examining the New Administrative Capital of Egypt’s (NAC) advertising billboards, the current study relates itself to the …
Marta Faustino & Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault. Ethical and Political Questions, Bloomsbury, 2020 Description Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collège …
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 …
