Anderson, A. Toward a genealogy of the liberal government of youth (2018) Journal of Youth Studies, 21 (4), pp. 461-477. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2017.1394993 Abstract While discourses that define and demarcate young people such that they become legitimate targets of negative practices of marginalisation and exclusion have not disappeared, these are no longer the dominant discourses and …
Bailey, A.J., Drbohlav, D., Salukvadze, J. Migration and pastoral power through life course: Evidence from Georgia (2018) Geoforum, 91, pp. 97-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.023 Abstract This article advances critical migration theory by exploring how pastoral power works through relational life courses. Extending governmentality accounts, we posit and trace the circulation of use, exchange, and surplus values …
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Return to Foucault’s “What is an Author” – Gordon Hull at New APPS I’m teaching a Foucault seminar this term, and one of the things I’m trying to do is get better on the doxography of his essays. That led me to a discovery about “What is an Author” that…
Call for chapters: Interrupting Globalisation: Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century Deadline for submissions:September 15, 2018 Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman (the University of Amsterdam) Contact: heterotopics@gmail.com Confirmed contributors: Kevin Hetherington (the Open University), author of Badlands of Modernity: Heterotopia and Social Ordering Lieven De Cauter (Catholic University of Leuven), editor of Heterotopia and the City: …
Dashtipour, P., Rumens, N. Entrepreneurship, incongruence and affect: Drawing insights from a Swedish anti-racist organisation (2018) Organization, 25 (2), pp. 223-241. DOI: 10.1177/1350508417720022 Abstract In recent years, entrepreneurship has been reconceptualised as social change. Understood as such, entrepreneurship can be viewed to disrupt and disturb the social order. We argue in this article that Foucault’s …
Lida Maxwell, The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia. Contemporary Political Theory 18, 22–42 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0224-5 Abstract This essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political predicament: of having to …
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Alexandre Gefen briefly reviews Foucault’s Les Aveux de la Chair at the Critical Inquiry blog. Thanks to Michael O’Rourke for the link. A roundup of news stories and other pieces – mostly in French and some in English is here. My review essay is on the Theory, Culture and Society blog (open access),…
Michel Foucault : “Je me suis demandé si l’analyse que j’avais faite sur la prison ne pouvait pas être transposée à la sexualité” France Culture, podcast, 07/01/2018 1977 C’était dans un “Après-midi de France Culture“ dont Michel Foucault était l’invité, à l’occasion de la parution de La volonté de savoir, premier tome de son Histoire de la sexualité. …
‘I don’t think there is actually a sovereign founding subject, a universal form of subject that one might find everywhere. I am very skeptical and very hostile towards this conception of the subject. I think on the contrary, that the subject is constituted through practices of subjection, or, in a more autonomous way, through practices …
Mike Gane, The New Foucault Effect, Cultural Politics Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2018, pp. 109-127 This review article considers two lecture courses by Michel Foucault (1972–73, 1979–80) and two books relating to the whole series of lectures (1970–84) by Stuart Elden. Foucault’s lecture courses can be divided into three phases, the first focused on …
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