Special feature: The government of life. Economy and Society (2015), Volume 44, issue 1, 2015 The government of life: managing populations, health and scarcity Kaspar Villadsen & Ayo Wahlberg The Malthus Effect: population and the liberal government of life Mitchell Dean Real-time biopolitics: the actuary and the sentinel in global public health Andrew Lakoff The …
Davis, C.S., Snider, M.J., King, L., Shukraft, A., Sonda, J.D., Hicks, L., Irvin, L. A Time to Live and a Time to Die: Heterotopian Spatialities and Temporalities in a Pediatric Palliative Care Team (2019) Health Communication, 34 (9), pp. 931-941. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1443262 Abstract The death of a child creates especially poignant feelings and extreme stress, …
Johannes Rytzler, Turning the gaze to the self and away from the self–Foucault and Weil on the matter of education as attention formation (2019) Ethics and Education, 14 (3), pp. 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2019.1617452 Abstract Through writings of Simone Weil and Michel Foucault, the article explores the notion of education as the formation of the attending and …
Paul Michael Garrett, Revisiting ‘The birth of biopolitics’: Foucault’s account of neoliberalism and the remaking of social policy (2019) Journal of Social Policy, 48 (3), pp. 469-487. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279418000582 Abstract The article charts the history and trajectory of neoliberalism provided in Foucault’s 1979 lectures on ‘The Birth of Biopolitics’. In these fascinating contributions, first published …
Péter Kakuk (ed), Bioethics and Biopolitics. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 8. Springer, Cham, 2017 This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. …
Call for articles: Continental Philosophy and Hellenistic Thought Special Section of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Hellenistic schools of thought―most notably, but not exclusively, Stoicism, Academic and Pyrrhonian scepticism, and Epicureanism―have been very influential for many centuries both in antiquity and in modernity. Nonetheless, for a variety of reasons, this influence has never …
Pratt, N., Alderton, J. Producing assessment truths: a Foucauldian analysis of teachers’ reorganisation of levels in English primary schools (2019) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40 (5), pp. 581-597. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2018.1561245 Abstract This article considers a recent policy initiative in assessment in English primary schools (ages 5–11 years) in which curriculum ‘levels’ used by …
Joe Hanley, The ‘quality’ of social work students in England: a genealogy of discourse 2002–18. Critical and Radical Social Work, online: August 23, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1332/204986019X15567132118821 Open access Abstract Students entering university-based social work qualifying education are increasingly constructed in policy as lacking in quality. This article presents a genealogy of discourse examining major reports and …
Siffrinn, N.E., McGovern, K.R. Expanding youth participatory action research: a Foucauldian take on youth identities (2019) International Multilingual Research Journal, 13 (3), pp. 168-180. DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2019.1623636 Abstract This paper explores the identity construction of multilingual and multidialectal middle school students in a semester-long youth participatory action research (YPAR) project. In particular, it moves beyond an …
Gassner, G. Thinking against Heritage: speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London (2019) Journal of Urbanism, 12 (3), pp. 279-295. DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2019.1576757 Abstract What does a political conceptualisation of the relationship between urban development and heritage involve? Against the widespread idea that there is a conflict between densification and the protection of …
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