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 …
Barnett, N.J., Griggs, S., Howarth, D. Whatever Happened to Councillors? Problematising the Deficiency Narrative in English Local Politics (2019) Political Studies, 67 (3), pp. 775-794. DOI: 10.1177/0032321718807379 Abstract Calls for councillors to change are nothing new, even from staunch defenders of local democracy. But one critical question has been sidestepped: Why have councillors been persistently …
Brookfield, K. Studentified areas as contested heterotopias: Findings from Southampton (2019) Area, 51 (2), pp. 350-359. DOI: 10.1111/area.12458 Abstract The ongoing “massification” of higher education in the UK has generated increased demand for student housing. Some of this demand is being met by new, purpose-built student accommodation, but much is being met through an intensification …
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Since the last update, and a short holiday in Wales, I’ve been systematically going through each of the previously drafted chapters, and doing a bit of reorganization. I’ve also worked through all the issues of Le Magazine Littéraire which have theme sections on Foucault, many of which are revealing sources of…
Herausgeber: Gerhards, Helene, Braun, Kathrin (Hrsg.), Biopolitiken – Regierungen des Lebens heute, Springer, 2019 Includes 2 chapters in English Das Buch versammelt konstruktivistische Perspektiven auf das Konzept „Biopolitik“. Dadurch werden die Analysepotentiale für aktuelle Phänomene, die den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Leben und dem Lebendigen und der Regierbarmachung betreffen, ausgelotet. Im Fokus stehen die Strategien und …
Call for chapters: Autoethnography and self-study as education research methods: Continuing debates and contemporary applications Edited by Deborah L. Mulligan, Emilio A. Anteliz and Patrick Alan Danaher FOCUS AND RATIONALE There is recurring and increasing scholarly interest in the ethical and methodological possibilities of autoethnography and self-study as research methods in education (understood broadly and …
Daniel Verginelli Galantin, A dimensão literária da genealogia em Foucault, Kriterion. Revista de Filosofia, v. 60, n. 143 (2019) Open Access PDF Resumo Neste artigo propomos estabelecer uma comparação entre escritos de Foucault sobre a literatura, notadamente seu livro “Raymond Roussel”, e textos que se consagraram pela fortuna crítica enquanto fundadores da genealogia, especificamente “Nietzsche, …
Eric Sarmiento, Catharina Landström, Sarah Whatmore, Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro-citizenship: Drought management and water governance in England (2019) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44 (2), pp. 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12288 Abstract In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” …
