Christian William Callaghan, Critical perspectives on international pharmaceutical innovation: Malthus, Foucault and resistance (2019) Critical Perspectives on International Business, 15 (1), pp. 68-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2017-0078 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to argue that certain insights offered by Kuhn and Foucault may be of use to those seeking to resist a global paradigm of inequality in access …
Bresnihan, P. Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans: Governmentality and the biopolitics of ‘improvement’ in the Irish and European fisheries (2019) Environment and Planning A, 51 (1), pp. 156-177. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18803110 Abstract Foucault’s account of the emergence of biopolitics in the late 18th century helps frame the political economy of ‘improvements’ as an environmental project linked …
Pier Luigi Sacco, Sendy Ghirardi, Maria Tartari, Marianna Trimarchi, Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes (2019) Cities, 89, pp. 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.013 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to take part in the debate about power relationships in contemporary cities between the agents of urban renewal and …
Ofer Parchev, Biopower, Sadomasochism, and Pastoral Power: Acceptance via Transgression (2019) Sexuality and Culture, 23 (1), pp. 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9563-x Abstract The transposition of biopower from the state to the individual has been a major preoccupation of biopower scholarship in recent decades. While some researchers have found grounds for optimism in the diminution of state control …
Feldman, A.J. Power, labour power and productive force in Foucault’s reading of capital (2019) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45 (3), pp. 307-333. DOI: 10.1177/0191453718798416 Abstract This article uses Foucault’s lecture courses to illuminate his reading of Marx’s Capital in Discipline and Punish. Foucault finds in Marx’s account of cooperation a precedent for his own approach …
Angie Hobbs, Foucault on fake news, social media and algorithms – BBC Ideas If he were still alive, what would philosopher Michel Foucault make of the world today? He’d be sounding the alarm, says Professor Angie Hobbs, Professor of Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Made by The Moment, 9 August 2018
Norbert Schaffeld, A Fictionalized Representation of Scientific Counter-Discourse: Jo Lendle’s Historical Science Novel Alles Land (2011) (2019) German Quarterly, 92 (1), pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12093 Abstract This paper explores a fictionalized series of past events in which a process of scientific discovery clearly contradicts the dominant academic discourse and is therefore bound to meet with powerful …
Deborah N. Brewis, Duality and Fallibility in Practices of the Self: The ‘inclusive subject’ in diversity training (2019) Organization Studies, 40 (1), pp. 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618765554 Abstract The concept of ‘inclusion’ has been gaining ground in a field known as equality and diversity work. Scholars have begun to both theorise what this concept means as a …
Lord knows how many times myths, legends, stories and tales – or anything else we generally consider ‘untrue’ – have been subjected to ethnological study. But after all, isn’t truth-telling also embedded in the dense and complex tissue of ritual? It too has been accompanied by numerous beliefs, and accorded strange powers. So perhaps there …
Alex Moskowitz, The Production of the Subject: Foucault, Marx, and the Ontology of the Market, Polygraph, Issue 27, 2019. Special Issue: Neoliberalism And Social Reproduction Open Access First paragraph Though Michel Foucault certainly was not the first to write about the primacy of the market within capitalism, few have been able, with such precision, to …
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