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August 10, 2016 ? Contact: @zorbitor ? ? 6th Annual Wave at Surveillance Day “To Be Observed” ? ? It’s no secret that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop camera and microphone jack, as reported by The New York Times on June 22nd. The paper also notes documents unveiled by…
Jo, S.J., Park, S. Critical review on power in organization: empowerment in human resource development (2016) European Journal of Training and Development, 40 (6), pp. 390-406. DOI: 10.1108/EJTD-01-2016-0005 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to analyze current practices, discuss empowerment from the theoretical perspectives on power in organizations and suggest an empowerment model based on the …
Hirtenfelder, C.T. Masking over ambiguity: Suburban Johannesburg police reservists and the uniform fetish (2016) Policing and Society, 26 (6), pp. 659-679. DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2015.1012168 Abstract Using McClintock’s theoretical concept ‘fetish’ and Foucault’s ‘bio-power’, this article explores what ambiguous perceptions of themselves reservists use the uniform to mask and how these are articulated through difference. Conducting an …
Kelly, S. Securing Dangerous Children as Literate Subjects (2016) Children Australia, pp. 1-10. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/cha.2016.16 Abstract This paper examines how the education of children as literate subjects in schools and community settings is implicated in the politics of securing civil society. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics is used to consider how young people …
Hull, Gordon, Successful Failure: What Foucault Can Teach Us About Privacy Self-Management in a World of Facebook and Big Data (December 2, 2014). Ethics and Information Technology, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533057 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2533057 Full text available Abstract: The “privacy paradox” refers to the discrepancy between the concern individuals express for their privacy and the apparently …
Ylva Uggla and Rolf Lidskog, Climate risks and forest practices: forest owners’ acceptance of advice concerning climate change (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 31 (6), pp. 618-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2015.1134648 Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with Swedish forest owners this study focuses on climate change, risk management and forest governance from the perspective of the forest …
Environmentality By Shaunna Barnhart This post is part of the Discard Studies Compendium, a keyword text. Environmentality is a term used to describe an approach to understanding complex interplays of power in environmental governance of human-environment interactions. It builds on philosopher Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Governmentality argues that …
David Newheiser, Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism, 13, 2016, Theory, Culture & Society September 2016 vol. 33 no. 5 3-21 doi: 10.1177/0263276415619997 Abstract Although Foucault’s 1979 lectures on The Birth of Biopolitics promised to treat the theme of biopolitics, the course deals at length with neoliberalism while mentioning biopolitics hardly at all. …
Josh Jones, Chez Foucault, the 1978 Fanzine That Introduced Students to the Radical French Philosopher, Open Culture Blog, 5 March 2015 Extract Into this fomenting intellectual culture stepped French theorist Michel Foucault, who first lectured in the U.S. in 1975 after the publication of his History of Sexuality. Foucault was a true product of the …
Panopticon Pandemonium: New videogame brings to life Jeremy Bentham’s unrealised prison, UCL Bentham Project You can download the Panopticon Pandemonium for PC from this site. For around a decade of his life until 1803, the renowned English philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) lobbied the British government to build a ‘panopticon’ prison of his design. …
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