Garrett, P.M. Faulty ‘tools’? Why social work scholarship needs to take a more critical approach to Michel Foucault (2020) Journal of Social Work, 20 (4), pp. 483-500. DOI: 10.1177/1468017319830538 Abstract Summary: Having outlined Foucault’s articulation of power and governmentality, the article critically explores attempts to translate the philosopher’s theorisation into social work. Findings: After briefly …
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While I continue to find focus a challenge as the world lurches from one crisis to another, I’ve been doing various bits of work for this book on Foucault’s work in the 1960s. I continued work on the comparison of the first and second editions of Naissance de la clinique.…
Elizabeth J. Done, Helen Knowler, Painful invisibilities: Roll management or ‘off-rolling’ and professional identity (2020) British Educational Research Journal, 46 (3), pp. 516-531. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3591 Abstract ‘Off-rolling’ is widely defined as the illegal removal of students from a school roll, unlike permanent exclusion, which involves sanctioned formal procedures. It is a practice that brings very different …
Young, H., Jerome, L. Student voice in higher education: Opening the loop (2020) British Educational Research Journal, 46 (3), pp. 688-705. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3603 Abstract UK national policy and the practices of university course boards tend to reduce understandings of ‘student voice’ to a feedback loop. In this loop, students express feedback, the university takes this …
Nancy Ettlinger (2020) Unbounding ‘states of exception’, reconceptualizing precarity, Space and Polity DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1755645 Abstract This provocation unbounds ‘state of exception’ to account for its sustainability and its role in daily life. I argue that sustaining a ‘state of exception’ requires a governmentality to govern and render the exceptional ‘normal’ over time, pointing to the …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Biopolítica: somatocracia y medicina social, In COVID19. La comunicación en tiempos de pandemia, 2020 PDF of article En octubre de 1974, Michel Foucault visitó la Universidad del Estado de Guanabara (que después sería la de Río de Janeiro) en Brasil, donde dictó una serie de seis conferencias en el Instituto de Medicina Social. …
David Langwallner on Foucault’s Panopticon Audio interview on Soundcloud Human Rights Lawyer David Langwallner discusses the idea of the Panopticon that Michel Foucault borrowed from Jeremy Bentham to describe the all-seeing eye of the prison. Foucault argued that this has been internalised and led to a series of restraints on our natural inclinations, which have …
Ramón Spaaij, Annelies Knoppers, Ruth Jeanes, “We want more diversity but…”: Resisting diversity in recreational sports clubs (2020) Sport Management Review, 23 (3), pp. 363-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2019.05.007 Open access Abstract Participation in sport is highly valued by governments and policy makers. Policies and programs encourage participation of populations who are underrepresented in sport. In many countries …
Patrick Pinkerton, The biopolitics of the migration-development nexus: Governing migration in the UK (2019) Politics, 39 (4), pp. 448-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395718809287 Abstract While politicians in the United Kingdom (UK) have engaged in fractious debate over the appropriate way of responding to the myriad issues arising from the so-called migration or refugee crisis in recent years, there …
Corfee, F., Cox, L., Windsor, C. The constitution of space in intensive care: Power, knowledge and the othering of people experiencing mental illness (2020) Nursing Inquiry, 27 (2), art. no. e12328. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12328 Abstract A sociological conceptualisation of space moves beyond the material to the relational, to consider space as a social process. This paper …
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