McGowan, Deirdre (2015) The Normalising Power of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945 – 2010. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Abstract Marriage law is often conceptualised as an instrument of power that illegitimately imposes the will of the State on its citizens. Paradoxically, marriage law is also offered as a route to liberation. …
Deirdre McGowan, “Governed by marriage law: An Irish genealogy” (2016) 25 Social and Legal Studies 311. doi: 10.1177/0964663915614110 Abstract: Marriage law links the private and the political, connecting the aspirations of individuals to the regulatory ambitions of the state. Marriage has significant social and cultural importance, but the assumptions of stability and care it entails …
VII Jornadas Debates Actuales de la Teoría Política Contemporánea El neoliberalismo a debate: hacia una genealogía del presente 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2016 Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Campus Miguelete, Universidad Nacional de San Martín Presentación: ¿Cómo interpretar el neoliberalismo? Más allá de cualquier salida fácil que lo reduzca a una doctrina económica o …
Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Monetary Conformation of the Corporate Governmentality II The Monetary System and the Privatization Process, Journal of Governance and Regulation, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2016, 75-90 Abstract The global governance of large corporations or corporate governmentality changed over time through the penetration of the economy in all aspects of society but which has …
Colin Koopman, Historicizing the Critique of Power 20th March 2015 | 14:15 – 15:00 Conference paper, audio podcast on the Voice Republic site Colin Koopman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also 2014-15 Humanities Research Fellow and 2015-16 Wulf Professor of Humanities. He has published widely on genealogy, …
Michel Foucault’s Death Valley Trip Heather Dundas 20th March 2015 | 17:30 – 18:15 Conference Paper, audio and podcast on Voice Republic Heather Dundas is a Russell Fellow and a candidate for the Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she is writing her dissertation on the intersection of …
Kordela, A.K. Monsters of biopower: Terror(ism) and horror in the era of affect (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 193-205. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2016113104 Abstract This paper argues that today the true source of terror in the economico-bio-politically advanced countries of global capitalism lies in biopower’s own constitution as a normative field (the protection of life) that …
Sokhi-Bulley, B. Re-reading the Riots: Counter-Conduct in London 2011 (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-20. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2016.1143348 Abstract The riots that took place in England in August 2011 have widely been described as destructive, senseless and without purpose. This article, taking inspiration from Michel Foucault’s later work on revolt as counter-conduct, argues for …
While I had made some changes to the manuscript after submission, and again after receiving the reports, on Sunday evening I finished four long days of thoroughly revising the text and resubmitted it to the publisher.
Just as I was beginning the review process for the second book I received a very nice letter from Daniel Defert, Foucault’s long-term partner, saying how much he’d liked Foucault’s Last Decade. This was obviously a wonderful thing to receive, and gave me a great motivation to finish up this second study.
The key changes are to the Introduction, which is restructured and some parts extensively revised. I wrote a bit about the work here and here. I think the Introduction now more clearly sets up the argument, approach and sources of the work. I also made lots of changes through the text, and added some sentences to the Conclusion. While the reports…
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Berthold Molden, Resistant pasts versus mnemonic hegemony: On the power relations of collective memory (2016) Memory Studies, 9 (2), pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015596014 Abstract The politics of history and memory in any society are determined by the relations of forces between hegemonic master narratives, defiant counter-memories, and silent majorities whose historical experience is rarely articulated in …
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