Mifsud, D. ‘Decentralised’ neoliberalism and/or ‘masked’ re-centralisation? The policy to practice trajectory of Maltese school reform through the lens of neoliberalism and Foucault (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (4), pp. 443-465. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1121409 Abstract The politics of the later part of the twentieth century have been marked by the emergence of neoliberalism, which has …
Corinne Weisgerber, Shannan H. Butler, Curating the Soul: Foucault’s concept of hupomnemata and the digital technology of self-care (2016) Information Communication and Society, 19 (10), pp. 1340-1355. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1088882 Abstract This paper explores how online actions such as the practice of digital self-writing shape our offline identity. We start with an examination of the concept of …
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At the end of June I gave the plenary lecture to my Warwick department’s annual conference. It was entitled ‘Foucault, the Archive and the Writing of Intellectual History’, and discussed the writing of the two books Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power. The audio recording is available…
Mark Murphy, Foucault, hybridization and social research: reflections on the Foucault @90 Conference, Social Theory Applied Blog, 29 June 2016 I was fortunate enough to attend the recent Foucault @90 conference, held at the University of West of Scotland on the 22-23 June. It was well attended with a strong selection of papers and excellent …
Thörn, H. Politics of responsibility: governing distant populations through civil society in Mozambique, Rwanda and South Africa (2016) Third World Quarterly, 37 (8), pp. 1505-1523. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1136207 Abstract This article presents and analyses the findings of a research project on power relations in the context of development partnerships with civil society on HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, …
Fathallah, J. ‘Except that Joss Whedon is god’: fannish attitudes to statements of author/ity (2016) International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (4), pp. 459-476. DOI: 10.1177/1367877914537589 Abstract Early internet and fan studies theorists believed the New Media context and work of the active fan would bring theories like the Death of the Author to fruition. …
Chang, H.-C. The normalisation of body gifting in Taiwan (2016) BioSocieties, 11 (2), pp. 135-151. DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2015.29 Abstract The Tzu Chi Foundation has made body gifting, such as body donation, bone marrow donation and cord blood donation, successful in Taiwan. Using Foucault’s theoretical framework of governmentality and normalisation, this article discusses how a Buddhist charity, …
Andrew Hope, Governmentality and the ‘selling’ of school surveillance devices, The Sociological Review. Volume 63, Issue 4, pages 840–857, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12279 Abstract In late modernity there has been a massive growth in ‘new’ surveillance devices situated within schools. This paper explores the reasons behind this proliferation, considering the role of key protagonists and …
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
(Commentary on Theories et institutions pénale. Cours au Collège de France, 1971-1972. Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2015) 23rd February, 1972 Institutions of Peace First function Private wars are forbidden They are forbidden by a collective or singular authority This authority imposes what can be placed before a judicial body, that is private war or…
María Alejandra Energici, Propuesta metodológica para un estudio de gubernamentalidad: Los procesos de subjetivación y los mecanismos de regulación poblacional como ejes de análisis para su abordaje empírico, Psicoperspectivas. Individuo y Sociedad, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2016) Texto completo Resumen En 1982 Foucault definió una gubernamentalidad como el contacto entre las tecnologías de dominación de …
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