PDF of flyer Online Book Launch, 6–9 May 2025 Join us for a four-day online panel series —each day featuring a single one-hour session—hosted by the team behind The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space & Politics, Vol I & II. Hosted by the co-editors of these two volumes— Dr Nikolina Bobic (University of Plymouth, …
Baciu, Elena-Loreni , Lazăr, Theofild-Andrei , Totan, Raluca Iunia, Social goals under a neoliberal agenda: measures to promote equality in European higher education read through a Foucauldian lens, Frontiers in Sociology, vol 10, 2025 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1492863 Abstract In this study we draw on Foucault’s work on governmentality and examine the power dynamics involved in establishing and …
Ridgway, V. (2025). Conspiracy theories and Geography: Who gets to say where is power? Dialogues in Human Geography https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251316008 Abstract Conspiracism has become a powerful explanatory category for major political events (Brexit vote, January 6th Capitol attack) and the subject of a diverse body of research. Yet geography has largely ignored such debates and has, …
Lawrence Grossberg, On the Way to Theory, Duke University Press, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059837 In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces cultural and critical theory’s foundations from the contested enlightenments to modern and …
Gretzky, M., & Dishon, G. (2025). Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2452196 ABSTRACT The emergence of large language models (LLMs) that generate human-like texts has raised questions about the boundaries between human-authored and machine-generated outputs. This article examines how LLMs are re-shaping academic …
Newman, S. (2024). Fugitive Truth: Renewing the Public Sphere in the Age of Post-Truth. Javnost – The Public, 31(3), 327–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2383904 Abstract In the sixty years since the publication of Jürgen Habermas’ magnum opus, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the public sphere now faces a new threat in the era of “post-truth” politics. …
Bulut Doğan, Transformation of Higher Education in Turkey: A Foucauldian Analysis, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Abstract This book examines the transformation of higher education in Turkey (Türkiye) after 1980 through Foucault’s historical method, discourse analysis and the concept of dispositif in the field of higher education research. Foucault’s method is seen as holistic and historical. Discourse analysis …
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