Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor (eds) Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, Routledge, 2013 Description Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, …
Alex Black and Karen Lumsden, Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers (2020) Policing and Society, 30 (1), pp. 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1568428 Abstract This article explores the riskwork engaged in by call handlers, dispatchers and response officers in …
Cornelius Borck (2019). Cooperation and Critique in Neuroscience: Loops of Feedback Between Philosophy, the Psy Sciences and Neurophenomenology. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.57 Open access Abstract In the long history of tenuous relations between psychology, psychiatry and philosophy the rise of neuroscience is typically regarded as decisive turn towards biological reductionism. Roughly since the turn …
LIVE! From City Lights STAFF PICK – Foucault in California (2020) Podcast (From April 2019) Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade celebrating the release of Foucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade, Foreword by Heather Dundas, and published by Heyday …
Justin Ross Muchnick, Wrestling with the Heterotopia: Jordan Burroughs and His Post-Match Interview at the 2016 Olympics (2020) Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 14 (1), pp. 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2018.1531056 Abstract This essay applies Michel Foucault’s conception of the heterotopia to the context of the sport of wrestling. In particular, it examines the social and spatial structures of …
Janosik Herder, The Power of Platforms. How biopolitical companies threaten democracy, Public Seminar, January 25, 2019 The 2010s will likely be remembered as the decade of the rise of platforms. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber — all of these companies have become more than just billion-dollar businesses. Over the last ten years they have started …
Hanne Svarstad, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ragnhild Overå, Power theories in political ecology, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 25, No 1 (2018) DOI: 10.2458/v25i1.23044 See also article on Researchgate if link above is timing out Open access Abstract Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Crisis de gubernamentalidad en Chile: contra la expropiación financiera y el Orden Público Económico [Crisis of governmentality in Chile: against financial expropriation and the Public Economic Order] Kalagatos, V.16, N.3. Setembro – Dezembro 2019 DOI: 10.23845/kgt.v16i3.861 Open access Resumen El presente ensayo tiene como propósito pensar la sublevación, y la consecuente represión que …
Stephanie Rutherford (2017). Environmentality and Green Governmentality. In International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology (eds D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R.A. Marston). Wiley https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0111 Abstract Environmentality, or green governmentality, offers a way of thinking about how power works through the construction of the environment, its …
Special section Philosophical Studies, Alcoff’s Rape and Resistance (2020) Philsophical Studies, Volume 177, Issue 2, February 2020 Ann J. Cahill, Alcoff’s Rape and Resistance: A Précis Abstract This article summarizes Linda Martin Alcoff’s Rape and Resistance (Polity, Cambridge, 2018). Alcoff’s analysis centers on a political and philosophical defense of the need to recognize the complexity …
