Fathallah, J. Statements and silence: Fanfic paratexts for ASOIAF/Game of Thrones (2016) Continuum, 30 (1), pp. 75-88. DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2015.1099150 Abstract Today, most media authors acknowledge and to some degree integrate the user-generated content of their fandom. Some, however, still perform authoritarian positions of prohibition. George R. R. Martin, the creator of A Song of Ice …
Renkin, H.Z. Biopolitical mythologies: Róheim, Freud, (homo)phobia, and the sexual science of Eastern European Otherness (2016) Sexualities, 19 (1-2), pp. 168-189. DOI: 10.1177/1363460714550908 Abstract A vast body of research has, following Foucault, shown the scientific study of sexuality to be central to the construction of modernity and its Others, and to biopolitical categories of personhood …
Turan, G. ‘Responsibility to Prosecute’ in an age of global governmentality: The International Criminal Court (2016) Cooperation and Conflict, 51 (1), pp. 20-37. DOI: 10.1177/0010836715597946 Abstract This paper critically examines the discursive power of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which was established in 2002 with unprecedented jurisdiction in terms of both crimes being prosecuted and …
McMillan, K. Politics of change: the discourses that inform organizational change and their capacity to silence (2016) Nursing Inquiry, 23 (3), pp. 223-231. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12133 Abstract Changes in healthcare organizations are inevitable and occurring at unprecedented rates. Such changes greatly impact nurses and their work, yet these experiences are rarely explored. Organizational change discourses remain …
Andre Duarte, Michel Foucault : Autour des nouvelles communautés politiquesChimères 2015/3 (N° 87), 61-8 Premières lignes Je voudrais proposer l’hypothèse que la notion foucaldienne de subjectivation permet de saisir comment agissent les nouveaux acteurs politiques engagés dans des collectifs politiques autonomes, surtout ceux qui agissent autour des mouvements de minorités d’inspiration queer, écartés des partis …
Mads Peter Karlsen and Kaspar Villadsen, Health Promotion, Governmentality and the Challenges of Theorizing Pleasure and Desire (2016) Body and Society, 22 (3), pp. 3-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X15616465 Abstract The relationship between pleasure and asceticism has been at the core of debates on western subjectivity at least since Nietzsche. Addressing this theme, this article explores the emergence …
Sébastien Roman Hétérotopie et utopie pratique : comparaison entre Foucault et Ricœur, Le Philosophoire 2015/2 (n° 44) Résumé Français L’utopie, aujourd’hui, a mauvaise presse. Elle est réduite, très souvent, à sa forme littéraire – le rêve ou la fiction – qui pourrait paraître inoffensive ou prêter à sourire, si le xxe siècle ne l’avait pas …
Demazeux, S. Philosopher contre la psychiatrie, tout contre (2016) Revue de Synthese, 137 (1-2), pp. 11-34. DOI: 10.1007/s11873-016-0290-x Résumé Depuis le début des années 1990, les recherches interdisciplinaires au croisement entre philosophie et psychiatrie ont connu un formidable regain d’intérêt sur le plan international. Elles ont été stimulées par la mise en place d’une association, …
Heller, M. Foucault, Discourse, and the Birth of British Public Relations (2016) Enterprise and Society, 17 (3), pp. 651-677. DOI: 10.1017/eso.2015.101 Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of public relations among corporations in interwar Britain. It adopts a discursive approach and applies the philosophy of Michel Foucault. It argues that public relations was a result …
Fernández-Morales, M., Menéndez-Menéndez, M.I. “When in Rome, Use What You’ve Got” : A Discussion of Female Agency through Orange Is the New Black (2016) Television and New Media, 17 (6), pp. 534-546. DOI: 10.1177/1527476416647493 Abstract Drawing on the work of Lois McNay as a feminist extender of Foucault’s ideas about power and the possibility of …
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