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The London Review of Books has a new website and content is open access for one month: For a full calendar month, there won’t be a paywall of any kind anywhere on the site. This means that not only all 24 of this year’s issues, but also our entire archive, dating back to 25…
Gavin Rae,Critiquing Sovereign Violence. Law, Biopolitics, Bio-Juridicalism Edinburgh University Press, 2019 Critiques the historically dominant classic–juridical model of sovereign violence and defends a bio-juridical model instead Works across the disciplines of critical theory, political theory, biopolitical theory, poststructuralism and deconstruction Develops three models – radical-juridical, biopolitical, and bio-juridical – to understand contemporary debates Situates current …
Angela Oels(2005) Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government?,Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning,7:3,185-207,DOI: 10.1080/15239080500339661 Abstract This article generates a theoretical framework for analysing the politics of climate change on the basis of Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Foucault does not limit the exercise of power to sovereignty, but introduces discipline, biopower, liberal …
Levon, E., Milani, T.M. Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging (2019) Language in Society, 48 (4), pp. 607-628. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404519000356 Open access Abstract Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous …
Gabriela Valdivia, “Eco-Governmentality” In The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Edited By Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy, Routledge, 2015 Abstract “Eco-governmentality” is a Foucaultian-inspired power analytic that political ecologists use to examine nature–society relationships. Since its early days, political ecologists have used Marxist-inspired critique to explain environmental domination and oppression (Watts 1983; Blaikie and Brookfield 1987; …
“Are we witnessing the emergence of a new global psychiatric power ?” Federico Soldani, MD, SM, PhD 3rd September 2019 – Royal College of Psychiatrists – London Philosophy of Psychiatry Special Interest Group Biennial Conference – “Madness, the Mind, and Politics” See this link for program
Andrew Neal, Security as Politics. Beyond the State of Exception, Edinburgh University Press Uses the perspective of parliamentarians to reassess the relationship between security and politics Andrew W. Neal argues that while ‘security’ was once an anti-political ‘exception’ in liberal democracies – a black box of secret intelligence and military decision-making at the dark heart …
Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, Astérion (ENS de Lyon), 21/2019 https://doi.org/10.4000/asterion.4074 Challenging Foucault with psychiatry and psychoanalysis Sous la direction de Laurent DARTIGUES et Elisabetta BASSO Open access Le dossier a pour but d’interroger, à partir de Michel Foucault, le lien entre la réflexion épistémologique sur la santé mentale et …
Sonya E. Pritzker & Whitney L. Duncan, Technologies of the Social: Family Constellation Therapy and the Remodeling of Relational Selfhood in China and Mexico (2019) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 43 (3), pp. 468-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09632-x Abstract In this article, we investigate how an increasingly popular therapeutic modality, family constellation therapy (FCT), functions simultaneously as a technology …
Rasker, Maya. “A Letter to Foucault.” In Artistic Research and Literature, edited by Caduff Corina and Wälchli Tan, 35-46. Boston: Brill, 2019. Open access Abstract: Investigating in what way some aspects of Foucault’s work can be fruitful to ‘think’ writing-as-research, a letter to Foucault as academic fiction unravels and valuates the paradoxes that emerge from connecting …
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