Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Foucault And The Politics Of Coronavirus Pandemic – OpEd, Eurasia Review, News and Analysis, March 12, 2020 As the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, relentlessly continues it mayhem around the world, on the intellectual side it has also provoked fresh conversations on the (geo) politics and the related ramifications in terms of …
Tidmarsh, M. Transforming Rehabilitation: The micro-physics of (market) power (2020) Punishment and Society, 22 (1), pp. 108-126. DOI: 10.1177/1462474519850573 Abstract This paper explores the impact of the introduction of competition and profit to the probation service in England and Wales following the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. The paper adapts the ideas advanced in …
Aubin-Boltanski, E. A Lebanese contemporary female mystic and her counter-conducts (2020) Women’s History Review, 29 (1), pp. 74-89. DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2019.1595205 Abstract A network of Christian female mystics in Lebanon and Syria has been forming since the early 1980s. Composed of women from large cities, such as Beirut or Damascus, it is characterized by its denominational …
Ohaneson, H.C. Voices of madness in Foucault and Kierkegaard (2020) International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 87 (1), pp. 27-54. DOI: 10.1007/s11153-019-09739-6 Abstract The central idea of this paper is that Michel Foucault and Søren Kierkegaard are unexpected allies in the investigation into the relation between madness and reason. These thinkers criticize reason’s presumption of …
Oliver, C. Irrational rationalities and governmentality-effected neglect in immigration practice: Legal migrants’ entitlements to services and benefits in the United Kingdom (2020) British Journal of Sociology, 71 (1), pp. 96-111. DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12720 Abstract Governments’ attempts to manage immigration increasingly restrict immigrants’ eligibility to healthcare, education, and welfare benefits. This article examines the operation of these …
Editor: An introductory quotation from Foucault, followed by reflections on the current coronavirus Covid 19 crisis by contemporary thinkers. I have just included the passage from Foucault here. Please follow the link to the journal site for the contemporary debate Coronavirus and philosophers M. Foucault, G. Agamben, J.L. Nancy, R. Esposito, S. Benvenuto, D. Dwivedi, …
Mathias Hein Jessen and Nicolai von Eggers, Governmentality and Statification: Towards a Foucauldian Theory of the State (2020) Theory, Culture and Society, 37 (1), pp. 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419849099 Abstract This article contributes to governmentality studies and state theory by discussing how to understand the centrality and importance of the state from a governmentality perspective. It uses …
Mark Davis, Niamh Stephenson, Paul Flowers, Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 72, Issue 6, 2011, pp. 912-918 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.016 Abstract This article examines how pandemic influenza control policies interpellate the public. We analyse Australian pandemic control documents and key informant …
Amelia Morris, The Politics of Weight. Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become …
Jindra, M., Paulle, B., Jindra, I.W. Relational Work in the Struggle Against Poverty: Balancing Scholarly Critiques and Emancipatory Practices in the Nonprofit Sector (2020) Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 49 (1), pp. 160-179. DOI: 10.1177/0899764019861716 Abstract Among antipoverty nonprofit organizations (NPOs), a significant shift back to “relational work” has been occurring. This form of human …
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