Newman, S. (2024). Fugitive Truth: Renewing the Public Sphere in the Age of Post-Truth. Javnost – The Public, 31(3), 327–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2383904 Abstract In the sixty years since the publication of Jürgen Habermas’ magnum opus, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the public sphere now faces a new threat in the era of “post-truth” politics. …
Bulut Doğan, Transformation of Higher Education in Turkey: A Foucauldian Analysis, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Abstract This book examines the transformation of higher education in Turkey (Türkiye) after 1980 through Foucault’s historical method, discourse analysis and the concept of dispositif in the field of higher education research. Foucault’s method is seen as holistic and historical. Discourse analysis …
Punishment Acts Flyer Punishment Acts 7.30 pm Wednesday 9 -Thursday 17 April 2025 B.ARTS, 64 Hartshill Road Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7RB United Kingdom Tickets £10 and £6.50 available from https://bit.ly/3XdhjRJ Nights are long in prison. The minutes drag by for both the watched and the watchers like a dirty mop on a dirty floor. Tales are …
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 …
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