Hannigan, David, (1998) From aboriginality to governmentality: the meaning of section 35(1) and the power of legal discourse, Master of Laws thesis, University of British Columbia Full text available This thesis examines recent doctrinal developments regarding the aboriginal and treaty rights which are recognised and affirmed in s.35(l) of the Constitution Act, 1982. Specifically, it …
Vaahtera, E. Biopolitics and the repressive hypothesis of the body: the case of swimming training in Finland (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 18 (2), pp. 142-153. DOI: 10.1080/15017419.2015.1063538 Abstract Iris Marion Young, a feminist theoretician, argued that patriarchal society inhibits women to cultivate capable bodies. In contrast, Foucauldian arguments have stressed that to view …
William Davies (2017), Elite Power Under Advanced Neoliberalism, Theory, Culture & Society, 34(5-6), 227-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417715072 Abstract The financial crisis, and associated scandals, created a sense of a juridical deficit with regard to the financial sector. Forms of independent judgement within the sector appeared compromised, while judgement over the sector seemed unattainable. Elites, in the classical …
Bruce Moghtader, Foucault and Educational Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Publisher’s site About this book In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one’s relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria …
EDGES BLOG: CSC Interview with Daniel Zamora. Cultural Studies blog, George Mason University, 12 March 2016 The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Dave Zeglen interviewed Daniel Zamora, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. See below for the transcript. Let us begin with your …
Julio Groppa Aquino, Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim, Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research, Sisyphus – Journal of Education, 2015, vol 3, no.3, 10-37. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.8900 Abstract The article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates …
The Limits of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Will Davies Posted by Stephen Dunne in Management is too Important Not to Debate Blog on April 15, 2015 Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body …
Rohan Deb Roy and David Arnold, Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold, Asian Medicine 6 (2010–11) 149–163 https://doi.org/10.1163/157342110X606914 Abstract David Arnold who retired this year as the Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial medicine and modern South …
Stephane J Baele, Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe’s refugee crisis?, The Conversation, February 25, 2016 Translation into French Translation into Turkish In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health …
Vol 7 (2016): Special issue: Special education and the deviant child in the Nordic countries – the impact of Foucault, Nordic Journal of Social Research Table of Contents Letters Guest editorial: special education and the deviant child in the Nordic countries – the impact of Foucault PDF Julie Allan, Bjørn Hamre Articles The subject of …
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