Xu, P., & Ritchie, J. Neoliberalism, citizenship, and young children: Exploring discursive constructions of citizenship in early childhood curricula in China and Aotearoa New Zealand. (2025) Global Studies of Childhood https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106241311639 Abstract As an entitlement to rights, well-being and equity, young children’s citizenship lays the foundation for a democratic, just and sustainable world. This article …
Friedmann, V., & Marton, P. (2025). Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2024.2442433 Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic made biopolitical decisions, including on vaccine approval, a subject of public discussion, challenging governmental legitimacy at the level of …
Tavani, E. (2025). The Selfie and the Low-Resolution Self: Beyond Foucault’s Technologies of the Self. Itinera, (28). https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/27832 Abstract The article discusses Foucault’s «technologies of the self» by reconsidering the link between ethics and aesthetics in this paradigm, with a view to its possible application to selfie technology as a «gestural image» (Frosh). This reconsideration …
Dent, C. (2025). Road deaths as problematisation: thanatopolitics and economised thoughts. Griffith Law Review, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2025.2452029 ABSTRACT The persistence of the road toll suggests that a new perspective may be of value – either to consider new insights to reduce it, or to allow a greater acceptance of the relatively limited number of deaths. The …
Emmanuel Le Doeuff et Thierry Lesage, À la découverte des thèses annotées de Michel Foucault, Panacée, 28/02/2025 Le thème de la folie est actuellement mis à l’honneur à travers plusieurs événements nationaux, parmi lesquels l’exposition Figures du fou qui s’est récemment tenue au Musée du Louvre, ou l’exposition Aux sources de la psychiatrie : la Maison …
Droz-Dit-Busset, O., Spilioti, T. “Getting personal with you” Affect and authenticity in confessional videos of YouTube lifestyle and beauty influencers (2024) Influencer DiscourseAffective relations and identities, Eds. Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company, pp. 278-302. DOI: 10.1075/pbns.349.11dro Abstract Since the Middle Ages, confession has been one of the ‘most highly valued techniques for …
PhD Course: Foucault and Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation – 4 ECTS. Copenhagen Business School Monday 16th June to Thursday 19th June 2025 in Copenhagen. Registration Deadline: Monday 5th May 2025 at 23:55. LINK to registration: https://phdsupport.nemtilmeld.dk/38/ Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Faculty Professor Sverre Raffnsøe Department of Business Humanities and Law, CBS Associate …
Apr 22, 2024 There certainly is a multiplicity of pathways leading from Deleuze (and Guattari) to posthuman thought. This one explores the one leading from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s “vitalism” and his version of the “death of man” to today’s convergence of molecular biology and computer science. Bruno Latour’s actor networks and Donna Haraway’s cyborgs …
Feb 23, 2025 Michel Foucault from A to Z. War is certainly not a central entry in Foucault’s vocabulary. Nevertheless, in his lectures “Society Must Be Defended”, he deals extensively with the hypothesis that the model of war is well suited to analyzing the effects of power. In the end, however, he concludes that this …
Cudworth, E. Resisting Zoopolis: Bordering species relations as a response to COVID-19 (2024) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal, Edited By Josephine Browne, Zoei Sutton, Routledge, pp. 133-150. DOI: 10.4324/9781003257912-12 Abstract Human publics are now more aware than ever of the presence and threat of zoonotic …
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