Thompson, G., Mockler, N. Principals of audit: testing, data and ‘implicated advocacy’ (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040376 Abstract Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball (2003) has termed the …
SEMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 CNRS – Paris 1/EXeCO) Première séance Samedi 23 janvier 2015, 10 h 30 – 12 h 30 (UFR de philosophie de la Sorbonne, escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande) François Delaporte (Université de Picardie) …
Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education (2015) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1117506 Abstract In schools, the notion of ‘care is often synonymous with welfare and disciplinary regimes. Drawing on Foucault, and a study of alternative education (AE) across the UK, and looking in …
Maboloc, C.R. Consumerism and the Post-9/11 Paranoia: Michel Foucault on Power, Resistance, and Critical Thought (2015) Philosophia (United States), pp. 1-12. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-015-9682-7 Abstract This paper intends to closely examine Michel Foucault’s take on power, resistance, and critical thought in the modern state, using the market-driven consumer economy and the paranoia-induced post-9/11 …
Yngfalk, C. Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2015) Consumption Markets and Culture, pp. 1-21. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with …
Miller, M.C., Grimwood, B.S.R., Arai, S.M. Ascetic practices for reflexively navigating power, privilege and freedoms in leisure research (2015) Leisure/ Loisir, pp. 1-20. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2015.1116204 Abstract Critical reflexivity enables leisure researchers to interrogate assumptions and discursive structures associated with subjectivities enacted in and through research processes. We argue that reflexive practices implemented …
Bredlöv, E. Shaping the female student: an analysis of Swedish beauty school recruitment texts (2015) Studies in Continuing Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2015.1113165 Abstract This study focuses on the recruitment of adults to the beauty industry in Sweden. It is concerned with a move in (beauty) education away from state and towards …
Powell, L. Doing Time: Temporality and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century British Prison Experience (2015) Life Writing, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2015.1118665 Abstract This paper argues that carceral experience was a generative and organisational motif in a large number of influential early British novels, which are read as life writing. I deploy Mikhail Bakhtin’s …
Olssen, M. Neoliberal competition in higher education today: research, accountability and impact (2016) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (1), pp. 129-148. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2015.1100530 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s elaboration of neoliberalism as a positive form of state power, the ascendancy of neoliberalism in higher education in Britain is examined in terms of the displacement …
Waring, J., Latif, A., Boyd, M., Barber, N., Elliott, R. Pastoral power in the community pharmacy: A Foucauldian analysis of services to promote patient adherence to new medicine use (2016) Social Science and Medicine, 148, pp. 123-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.049 Abstract Community pharmacists play a growing role in the delivery of primary healthcare. This has led …
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