Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Governing (Through) Rights, Hart Publishing, 2016 About Governing (Through) Rights Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques – hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines …
Brendon Murphy, (2015), Zone of Impeachment: A Post-Foucauldian Analysis of Controlled Operations Law and Policy, PhD. University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business & Law, Newcastle Law School Description This thesis presents a Post-Foucauldian analysis of Australian controlled operations law. The purpose was to extend current doctrinal scholarship by exploring the discursive forces that shape this …
Michael Feely, Sexual surveillance and control in a community-based intellectual disability service (2016) Sexualities, 19 (5-6), pp. 725-750. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460715620575 Abstract Within contemporary policy documents regarding intellectual disability and sexuality we often find a progress narrative that contrasts a dark past, when the sexuality of disabled people was suppressed, with an enlightened present, when we recognize …
Noguera-Ramírez, C.E. The pedagogical effect: On Foucault and Sloterdijk (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204738 Abstract Although Foucault did not produce any particular work devoted to teaching or education, following authors like Hoskin this text aims to show the importance that teaching practices and discourses have in Foucault’s analysis, …
Dolly Jørgensen, Rethinking rewilding (2015) Geoforum, 65, pp. 482-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.016 Abstract The term ‘rewilding’ sounds as if it should have a straightforward meaning ‘to make wild again’. But in truth the term has a complex history and a host of meanings have been ascribed to it. Rewilding as a specific scientific term has its beginnings …
Beer, D. The social power of algorithms (2016) Information Communication and Society, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1216147 Abstract This article explores the questions associated with what might be thought of as the social power of algorithms. The article, which introduces a special issue on the same topic, begins by reflecting on how we …
Daniele Lorenzini, Pierre Hadot (1922/2010) et Michel Foucault (1926/1984) – La culture de soi. Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences Humaines, 43(6), 29-29. https://doi.org/10.3917/gdsh.043.0029. Premières lignes Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ? En posant cette question, dans un article intitulé « La philosophie est-elle un luxe ? », Pierre Hadot remarque que le plus souvent les non-philosophes …
Marco A. Jiménez and Ana Ma. Valle, Pedagogy and the care of the self: A reading from Foucault (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(7), 702–709. Published online 10 August 2016 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204736 Abstract This text reflects about the need to consider an additional institutional alternative that matters, not only to the ones that advocate for pedagogy, …
Revisiting The History of Sexuality: Thinking with Foucault at Forty, Guest edited by Howard Chiang, Cultural History, Volume 5, Issue 2, October, 2016 Articles Revisiting Foucault: Thinking with The History of Sexuality at Forty Howard Chiang ‘The Party with God’: Michel Foucault, the Gay Left and the Work of Theory Steven Maynard Sex and Truth: …
Interview with Stuart Elden by Dave O’Brien (podcast) on the New Books Network In relation to Foucault’s Last Decade Polity Press 2016 Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity on his thought? In Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) Stuart Elden, …
