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 …
Originally posted on multipliciudades:
My latest article, ‘Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: Environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations’, is now available online on the early view webpage of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (requires subscription). The piece draws on the conceptualizations of power and the state by these authors to…
Luque-Ayala, A., Marvin, S. The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control (2016) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34 (2), pp. 191-208. DOI: 10.1177/0263775815611422 Abstract This paper examines the increased visibility of urban infrastructures occurring through a close coupling of information technologies and the selective integration of urban services. It …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My next visiting talk – and my first overseas talk in over a year – will be at ‘Critical Histories of the Present‘, the 35th Spindel conference, University of Memphis, 16-17 September 2016. My talk is under the title of ‘Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics’. A very early version was given…
The 2016 conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) will take place at Deakin University’s Burwood Campus, December 7-9 2016. The ASCP aims to provide a broad intellectual forum for academics and postgraduates working in the European philosophical tradition. Its annual conference is the largest event devoted to European philosophy in Australasia. The …
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics …
Colin Gordon, “Brexit Means Brexit Means Nothing” 14/07/2016 on academia.edu This note is a postscript to my earlier piece “The Will of the people in post – truth times”, Apart from its oversexed headline and the now outdated speculations about the future of a certain individual, this piece by Sean O’Grady in The Independent seemed …
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