Chenchen Zhang (2020) Governing (through) trustworthiness: technologies of power and subjectification in China’s social credit system, Critical Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2020.1822194 Open access Abstract:This article examines the technologies of power and subjectification in China’s social credit system through a theoretically informed analysis of policy and legal documents as well as the narratives of social credit practitioners, including local officials and …
As the 6th edition of the Workshop on Historical Epistemology – Historical Epistemology and Epistemology of History – could not take place last spring, we have rescheduled it in a new format. We are thus very glad to invite you to the Month of Historical Epistemology! During November 2020, we will hold weekly meetings on Zoom to discuss …
Beer, David. “A History of the Data Present.” History of the Human Sciences, (October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120959254. How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person Colin Koopman, How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 269 pp. ISBN: 9780226626581 Watching TV I start to wonder if …
Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition, Minnesota University Press, 2020 University of Minnesota Press | 368 pages | September 2020ISBN 978-1-5179-0964-2 | paper | $27.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0963-5 | cloth | $108.00 Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human-animal relations Antoine Traisnel reveals …
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The view back from the Devil’s Staircase The hairpins on the way up Penrhiw-Wen The valley road to the Devil’s Staircase A lot of the time recently has been spent revising?The Early Foucault, but that is now?done, and in the run-up to term I spent a bit of time on?this…
Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde (2020) From liberalism to biopolitics: investigating the Norwegian government’s two responses to Covid-19, European Societies, DOI:10.1080/14616696.2020.1824003 Open access Abstract In this text, I investigate the Norwegian government’s two responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, utilizing a Foucauldian discourse analysis. The pandemic forces us to ask questions about political leadership – about how successful political …
Foucault Studies, Vol 1 No 28 (2020): Number 28, September 2020 The editors of Foucault Studies are pleased to publish this issue containing a review symposium of Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s “Genealogies of Terrorism” as well as four original articles and three book reviews. Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Review Symposium Preface to Symposium on Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s …
Tom Bentley, Settler state apologies and the elusiveness of forgiveness: The purification ritual that does not purify (2020) Contemporary Political Theory, 19 (3), pp. 381-403. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00356-6 Open access Abstract Focusing on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the Stolen Generations, this article asks: can colonial-settler states obtain forgiveness through political apologies? The article …
Kathryn Gomersall, Imposition to agonism: Voluntary poverty alleviation resettlement in rural China (2020) Political Geography, 82, art. no. 102250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102250 Abstract Implementation of voluntary Poverty Alleviation Resettlement (PAR) in Shanxi Province, rural China is a function of the democratic processes of village governance under the Organic Law of Villages Committees and Assemblies. Villages consult with …
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