Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s The Punitive Society lecture course and my Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton. It’s a long, thoughtful and generous review. As well as saying many insightful things about the books reviewed, it’s also a good meditation on Foucault’s enduring impact today.…
Nathan W. Harter, Foucault on Leadership. The Leader as Subject, Routledge, 2016 Description Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for …
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MA in Continental Philosophy If you want to find out more details about the program, there is a postgraduate information session next Thursday, October 12 2017, from 6pm, at the Female Orphan School, Parramatta Campus. All welcome to attend. There will be refreshments and nibbles. The Masters is structured as an eighteen month or three …
Richard Niesche, Amanda Keddie, Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice, Routledge, 2016 Description Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges …
Susan Milner, From Foucault to Valls: experiments with basic income in France. IPR blog, University of Bath, 25th November 2016 Dr Susan Milner is Reader in European Politics at the University of Bath. In line with changes discussed in the British context, it is startling to observe how much has shifted in French policy debates …
Diff’rent Level : Governmentality Blues – Written by Alexander Martin. From circa 1992. Posted Nov 10 2016
Ashe, Leah M. (2017). “Knowing food, knowing men: Some thoughts on food, knowledge, and violence.” Presentation at L’Institut Européen D’Histoire et des Cultures de L’Alimentation (IEHCA) Université d’Été, Tours, France, 28 August – 2 September 2017. Video presentation Text available at academia.edu In a return to the world of food studies, I draw from my …
Meet Brujas, NYC’s Newest Streetwear Skateboarding Collective With a Feminist Mission, 9/25/2017 by Brett Berk, Billboard Brujas is a diverse and radical feminist youth skateboarding collective from New York’s Bronx and Lower East Side. It was founded three years ago by a group of young women to reclaim space from the white/male dominated skater culture that …
Willmott, K. (2017). Taxpayer governmentality: governing government in Metro Vancouver’s transit tax debate. Economy and Society, Pages 255-274 | Published online: 25 Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2017.1359441 Abstract In a 2015 plebiscite, voters in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia rejected a proposed sales tax dedicated to funding a regional transportation plan. Opposition was spearheaded by a taxpayer …
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