Perryman, J., Ball, S. J., Braun, A., & Maguire, M. (2017). Translating policy: governmentality and the reflective teacher. Journal of Education Policy, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2017.1309072 Abstract This paper deploys some concepts from the work of Michel Foucault to problematise the mundane and quotidian practices of policy translation as these occur in the everyday of schools. …
Marín-Díaz, D.L. The key is the individual: Practices of the self, self-help and learning (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 710-719. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204737 ABSTRACT: The article analyses the boom of self-help discourses and their relationship with pedagogic discourses, with the purpose of marking the centrality of the individual in the practices of contemporaneous …
Silvio Gallo, The care of the self and biopolitics: Resistance and practices of freedom (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204735 Translated from Portuguese by Gabriela Salim Spagnol and Davina Marques. Abstract This text through the direct use to Foucault’s work and using the concepts of ‘care of the self’ and biopolitics …
[Editor: You never know where references to Foucault’s name will pop up…] Todd Martens, Meet Disney’s philosopher king: the brain behind ‘Avatar’s’ Pandora and Marvel’s ‘Guardians’ ride, Los Angeles Times, May 25 2017 When visitors set foot into Pandora — The World of Avatar at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., they will find glowing …
Noguera-Ramírez, C.E. The pedagogical effect: On Foucault and Sloterdijk (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 720-733. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204738 Abstract Although Foucault did not produce any particular work devoted to teaching or education, following authors like Hoskin this text aims to show the importance that teaching practices and discourses have in Foucault’s analysis, particularly …
Jen Bagelman, Sarah Marie Wiebe, Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in ‘Chemical Valley’(2017) Political Geography, 60, pp. 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.04.007 Abstract This paper examines the geopolitics of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s reserve, situated in a toxic petrochemical complex known as Canada’s ‘Chemical Valley.’ While this reserve holds the perilous title of worst air-pollution in …
Leib, R.S. Spaces of the self: Foucault and Goffman on the micro-physics of discipline (2017) Philosophy Today, 61 (1), pp. 189-210. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2017321153 Abstract This article argues that the works of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman are complementary, specifically in their analyses of disciplinary power. This analysis would be what Foucault calls a ‘micro-physics’ of …
Tynan, R., McEvilly, N. ‘No pain, no gain’: former elite female gymnasts’ engagements with pain and injury discourses (2017) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2017.1323778 Abstract This paper investigates former elite female gymnasts’ views and experiences of pain and injury. The purpose of the study was to …
Fage-Butler, A.M. Risk resistance: constructing home birth as morally responsible on an online discussion group (2017) Health, Risk and Society, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2017.1327038 Abstract In hegemonic risk discourses, hospital obstetric units are represented as the safest and best birth settings; however, a minority of women in England and Wales (2.3% in …
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz, Theory Culture and Society, 22 May 2017 The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz Elizabeth Grosz & Vikki Bell March 2017 VB: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2017). The book seems to simultaneously explore …
