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 …
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 …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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. …
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