Panopticon Pandemonium: New videogame brings to life Jeremy Bentham’s unrealised prison, UCL Bentham Project You can download the Panopticon Pandemonium for PC from this site. For around a decade of his life until 1803, the renowned English philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) lobbied the British government to build a ‘panopticon’ prison of his design. …
Editor: Although Rodrigo Firmino’s long running Panopticam project has stopped working, this is worth knowing about. Watching Jeremy, Watching Me, Watching Jeremy About this Project The idea of this project came from the irony of having the skeleton of the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (with a wax head and real clothes) – known, among other …
Karen Winter and Viviene E. Cree, Social Work Home Visits to Children and Families in the UK: A Foucauldian Perspective, British Journal of Social Work (2016) 46, 1175–1190. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcv069 Abstract The home visit is at the heart of social work practice with children and families; it is what children and families’ social workers do …
Colin Gordon, Review Article: The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, History of the Human Sciences 2016, Vol. 29(3) 91–110 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116653948 Also on academia.edu Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds) The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon. New York:Cambridge University Press, 2014. 741 pp. £99.99. ISBN: 9780521119214 (hbk) Extract This big and potentially influential volume is one sign among others of …
Davies, W. (2012), The Emerging Neocommunitarianism. The Political Quarterly, 83: 767–776. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02354.x Full text on academia.edu Abstract The financial crisis which began in 2007 has been widely interpreted as a crisis of neoliberalism, akin to the crisis of Keynesianism of the 1970s. But there is little sign of a major paradigmatic alternative, either in theory …
Laurence McFalls & Mariella Pandolfi, Post-Liberalism, Academic Foresights, No. 5: July-September 2012 Update October 2025: There is something wrong with the formatting of this page but you can read the article if you highlight the page How do you analyze the present status of post-liberalism? Post-liberalism is the currently emergent historical formation that has both …
Zerva, K., Nijkamp, P. Tour guides as information filters in urban heterotopias: Evidence from the Amsterdam Red Light District (2016) Tourism Management Perspectives, 18, pp. 42-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2015.12.020 Abstract An unconventional urban environment often acts as an attraction for tourists. This is exemplified by the old city centre of Amsterdam, through its urban gentrification which …
Done, E.J., Murphy, M., Knowler, H. University-based professional learning for women teachers and the ‘to care’ or ‘to lead’ dilemma (2016) Professional Development in Education, 42 (4), pp. 610-627. DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2014.948690 Abstract The authors consider the recasting of teaching as leadership with reference to school principals or heads and claim that many women teachers decline …
Welsh, J. Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control (2016) International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10767-016-9228-4 Abstract Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic life …
Gillies, D. and Mifsud, D. (2016) Policy in transition: The emergence of tackling early school leaving (ESL) as EU policy priority, Journal of Education Policy, 31:4, 443-465, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2016.1196393. Abstract This paper explores, from a Foucauldian perspective, the emergence and nature of the current EU education policy priority issue of ‘early school leaving’. The paper …
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