Foster, R. The therapeutic spirit of neoliberalism (2016) Political Theory, 44 (1), pp. 82-105. DOI: 10.1177/0090591715594660 Abstract My essay argues that neoliberal forms of government emerged through the shifting political trajectory of the therapeutic ethos in the postwar period in Anglo-American societies. In the postwar era, the therapeutic ethos attracted the attention of conservative cultural …
The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics Edited by Sergei Prozorov, Simona Rentea, Forthcoming 2017 – Routledge About the Book The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault’s genealogical research on the governance of sexuality, crime and mental illness in modern Europe, the research on biopolitics has developed into …
Christopher Worthman & Beverly Troiano (2016): A good student subject: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of an adolescent writer negotiating subject positions, Critical Studies in Education Published online: 24 Oct 2016 DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1246372 ABSTRACT In this article, we draw on the work of Michel Foucault to analyze one student’s subject development in an expository writing classroom. …
Terri Bourke, Mary Ryan, Margaret Lloyd, The discursive positioning of graduating teachers in accreditation of teacher education programs, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 53, January 2016, pp. 1–9 Abstract This paper uses discourse analysis techniques associated with Foucauldian archaeology to examine a teacher education accreditation document from Australia to reveal how graduating teachers are constructed …
Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency Editors: Seymour, Julie, Hackett, Abigail, Procter, Lisa (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 This book as the foreword states ‘takes up Foucault’s challenge to “examine the critical power of space and place in being and becoming of children’s lives’. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, architecture and …
History and Obstinacy By Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt Edited by Devin Fore With Cyrus Shahan, Martin Brady, Helen Hughes and Joel Golb Translated by Richard Langston The MIT Press, 2016 Devin Fore’s introduction which refers to Foucault can be found on his university website Overview If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of …
Mark de Valk (Ed.) Screening the Tortured Body. The Cinema as Scaffold, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’ as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily …
Rik Peeters & Marc Schuilenburg, The birth of mindpolitics: understanding nudging in public health policy, Social Theory & Health, 09 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-016-0024-z Abstract This article addresses the question: ‘In what ways have nudging and other behavioural techniques entered the realm of policymaking for public health and what does that mean for the way contemporary …
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[Image: Mike Winkelmann] In my dissertation summary, I linked the works of Evan Thompson, Pierre Hadot, Peter Sloterdijk, and Michel Foucault in terms of each philosopher’s emphasis on what we could call skills?of perception and action, each suggesting a view of philosophy as practice. In Pierre Hadot’s work?What is Ancient…
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