Joe Christopher, Sarath Ukwatte, Prem Yapa, How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?: An historical analysis (2020) Journal of Management History, 26 (2), pp. 231-248. DOI: 10.1108/JMH-04-2019-0029 Abstract Purpose: This study aims to examine how government policies have influenced the governance paradigm of Australian public universities from a historical perspective. …
Murphy, B. Regulating Undercover Policing: Subjects, Rights and Governmentality. Critical Criminology (2020). Published: 28 April 2020 10.1007/s10612-020-09504-6 Abstract One of Foucault’s many unfinished projects was an analysis of the links between law, power and subjectivity. This article aims to make a contribution to Foucauldian jurisprudence by asking the question: in what ways does law construct …
Sibylle Erle & Helen Hendry, Monsters: interdisciplinary explorations in monstrosity(2020) Palgrave Communications, 6 (1), art. no. 53 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0428-1 Open access Abstract There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular reception of Mary Shelley’s Monster, termed a ‘new species’ by its overreaching but admiringly determined maker Victor Frankenstein …
Editor: An ongoing series of articles and blog posts by scholars working at Australian, British and Norwegian universities is being posted on The Disorder of Things blog. The first article was posted 24 March 2020
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
An eighth entry in our coronacrisis series, from Umut Ozguc. Umut is postdoctoral research fellow in International Ethics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a critical IR scholar working on critical security and border studies, settler colonialism, spatial…
Švantner, M. Two basic analyses of the historiography of semiotics: M. Foucault’s comparative semiology and J.N. Deely’s semiotic realism (2020) Semiotica, 2020 (233), pp. 159-177. DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0108 Abstract In this study I compare the work of two scholars who are important for contemporary research into the history of semiotics. The main goal of the study …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality – part 1 of a longer interview at the Journal of History of Ideas blog, conducted earlier this month. My thanks to Anne Schult and Jonas Knatz for the invitation to do this…
Jocelyn Lachance, Parental surveillance of teens in the digital era: the “ritual of confession” to the “ritual of repentance” (2020) International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 25 (1), pp. 355-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2019.1651351 Open access Abstract The use of ICTs by teens are sometimes a source of fear for parents. Yet the same ICTs can be a …
François Delaporte, Disease and Civilization. The Cholera in Paris, 1832, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Foreword by Paul Rabinow, 1986, MIT Press Summary Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. …
Marlon Salomon, Obituary, François Delaporte (1941 – 2019) Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science (6) 2019: 115-123 https://doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2019.i6.11 Open access On the 28th of May, the French philosopher and historian of sciences, François Delaporte died in Amiens at the age of 78. He was an emeritus professor at the Université de Picardie Jules …
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