Evan Easton-Calabria, (2025) ‘How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda’, in L. Oesch and L. Lemaire (eds) Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529222852-015. Despite an increased recognition of urban refugees, there is startlingly limited research on the relationship between the …
Timothy O’Leary, (2026). Fiction’s critique: Gray’s Poor Things and the conduct of sensibility. Textual Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2608009 ABSTRACT This essay explores how works of literary fiction contribute to the aims of critique, understood along Foucauldian lines as a transformative engagement with modes of subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, these …
Richard Wolin, (2025). Blanchot Collabo: From the Jeune Droite to Jeune France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 43(1), 93-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2025.430105 Abstract Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was best known for his pathbreaking forays in literary criticism: dense meditations on the abyss of literary meaning, culminating in his radical insight concerning the ontological impossibility of writing or écriture. …
Dimitri M’Bama and William Tilleczek (2026). The Asceticism of the Oppressed: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Collective Self-Transformation. Political Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251398786 Abstract Asceticism has a bad reputation in political and social theory—insofar as it has any reputation at all. If it is not ignored entirely, it tends to be aligned with either political elitism …
Kurt Borg, (2026). Foucault and Business Ethics. In: Luetge, C., Thejls Ziegler, M. (eds) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6176-6_118-1 Abstract This chapter presents an overview of a range of analyses within business ethics which have been informed by the work of Michel Foucault. It considers work in business ethics …
Eduan Breedt, Erin Tichenor & Tim Barlott (2025), Diagnosing the body in physiotherapy: the passage from discipline to control. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2025.2585138 ABSTRACT The concept of the body as a biomechanical machine was central to legitimizing physiotherapy and defining its professional identity. As society transitioned from Michel Foucault’s disciplinary formation to Gilles …
Clancy Wilmott, Mobile Mapping Space, Cartography and the Digital, Routledge, 2020 This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography — and the work …
Diana Stypinska, On the Genealogy of Critique Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant, Routledge, 2020 Description On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today’s mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics. What does it mean to be …
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Édison Flávio Fernandes & Alice Casimiro Lopes (2025) When data speaks, what issues are silenced? Evidence, statistics, and curriculum. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 33(86). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.9195 Abstract: This paper presents a discussion that operates within the tension between deconstructionist philosophy—centered on the event as a rupture of stable meanings—and statistical practices in education, which seek to …
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