Connor J Cavanagh, Political ecologies of biopower: diversity, debates, and new frontiers of inquiry, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 25, No 1 (2018) DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/v25i1.23047 Open access Abstract This article reviews recent literature on the political ecologies of conservation and environmental change mitigation, highlighting the biopolitical stakes of many writings in this field. Although a …
PhD course Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis Editor: Update 24 February 2026. Link above to the archived page on the Wayback Machine About the course Course title: Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis Course coordinator and leader: Professor Nico Carpentier Course credits: 5 credits Course timing: …
Carlson, David Lee, Rodriguez, Nelson M. (Eds.) Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education. Friendship as Ascesis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 This book examines, within the context and concerns of education, Foucault’s reflections on friendship in his 1981 interview “Friendship as a Way of Life.” In the interview, Foucault advances the notion of a homosexual …
Aldo Avellaneda y Guillermo Vega, (eds.) Conductas que importan. Variantes de análisis de los Estudios en Gubernamentalidad. EUDENE 2018. Presentation: Wednesday, 27, 18:30. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. Resumen Los así llamados Governmentality Studies (Estudios en Gubernamentalidad) vieron la luz en el año 1991, si convenimos en otorgar crédito …
Smaranda Spanu, Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation. The Heterotopic Tool as a Means of Heritage Assessment. Springer, 2020 This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The fundamental understandings of heritage, its evolution and practices all reveal intrinsic heterotopic features …
Chris Methmann, “The Sky Is the Limit: Global Warming as Global Governmentality.” European Journal of International Relations 19, no. 1 (March 2013): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066111415300 Open access Abstract The concept of governmentality has gained significant influence among scholars of International Relations. Recently, however, there is a growing literature engaging critically with the notion of a global …
Biagio Carrano, Balkanism, the European image of the Balkans, Serbian Monitor, 13/08/2019 An analysis of the Balkanist mentality, which, in a way, we all take with us when we think about the Balkans. A premise that is almost a spoiler: if you want to read something lighter, go immediately to the related article dedicated to Balkanology. And …
Erick Bengel, A One-Man Show Repackages Michel Foucault for the Age of Trump, November 11, 2019, Hyperallergic This article is part of a series of pieces covering or inspired by the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival, produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Editor: Update 13 …
Editor: “la critique, ce sera l’art de l’inservitude volontaire, celui de l’indocilité réfléchie. La critique aurait essentiellement pour fonction le désassujetiissement dans le jeu de ce qu’on pourrait appeler, d’un mot. la politique de la vérité” Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi, Vrin, 2015, p.39 inservitude dans le cadre …
Paul Horton, School bullying and bare life: Challenging the state of exception EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, Volume: 51 Issue: 14, 2019, Pages: 1444-1453 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1557043 Despite a vast amount of research into school bullying and the widespread implementation of anti-bullying policies and programs, large numbers of students continue to report that they are routinely subjected to …
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