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 …
Behrouz Ghamari – Foucault, Spirituality, And The Perils Of Universal History, Paper delivered at the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, July 2015 mp3 for download See also Soundcloud Response by Jorge Daniel Vásquez and Megan Eardley The beginning of Friday’s session was marked by a radical commitment to putting the analysis of religion …
Sifakakis, P., Tsatsaroni, A., Sarakinioti, A., Kourou, M. Governance and knowledge transformations in educational administration: Greek responses to global policies (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 35-67. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040377 Abstract This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the …
Call for book proposals: Theory as method in education research From the Social Theory Applied blog, 2 January 2016 Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Mark Murphy is currently in negotiations with a book publisher regarding a potential book series on the topic: Theory as …
Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds), Foucault and Neoliberalism, Polity Press, 2016 Description Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault …
Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self. Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Translated by Graham Burchell Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini Introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 …
Gordon Hull, Foucault, Descartes and Monastic Subjectivity, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 07 January 2016 Extracts [,,,] So Descartes is an Augustinian, at least on this point. What I’d like to do here is point out that Foucault further situates Descartes in a traditional Catholic framework of confession. Recall that, in general, On the …
Hardy C., Maguire S. Organizing risk: Discourse, power, and “riskification” (2016) Academy of Management Review, 41 (1), pp. 80-108. DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0106 Abstract Drawing on the work of Foucault, we develop an integrated framework for understanding how risk is organized in three different modes: prospectively, in real time, and retrospectively. We show how these modes are …
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