Mifsud, D. The policy discourse of networking and its effect on school autonomy: a Foucauldian interpretation (2015) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1092427 Abstract Policy discourse officially operates to distinctly influence public perception in an irrevocable and normalising manner. In a Maltese educational scenario of gradual decentralisation and …
Carte Semiotiche Annali 4 – Call For Papers in Italian, English, French and Spanish PDF with full details LE IMMAGINI DEL CONTROLLO. Visibilità e governo dei corpi La redazione di Carte Semiotiche vi invita ad inviare proposte di contributo in italiano, inglese, francese o spagnolo (max. 2000 caratteri spazi inclusi o 500 parole) corredate di …
The Philosophy Research Initiative at Western Sydney University will be running a new MA in Continental Philosophy from 2016 (to replace Honours, which will no longer be available from 2016). Members of the group have special expertise in Kant and post-Kantian German thought from Hegel to Nietzsche, the traditions of 20th-century French and German philosophy …
Smith, D. Rewriting the Constitution: A Critique of ‘Postphenomenology’ (2015) Philosophy and Technology, 28 (4), pp. 533-551. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-014-0175-6 Abstract This paper builds a three-part argument in favour of a more transcendentally focused form of ‘postphenomenology’ than is currently practised in philosophy of technology. It does so by problematising two key terms, ‘constitution’ and ‘postphenomenology’, …
DEAKIN PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR, DECEMBER 8, 2015 A/Prof. Colin Koopman (University of Oregon), “The Infopolitics of Race: Segregation by Data, 1923-1938” Abstract: Contemporary political assemblages from mass surveillance to finance capitalism to big data suggest that we may be in the midst of new political conditions. Many have sought to conceptualize these assemblages in such terms …
Lynne Friedli, Robert Stearn, Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes, Medical Humanities 2015;41:40-47 doi:10.1136/medhum-2014-010622 Open Access Abstract Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work …
Rudan, P. Society as a Code: Bentham and the Fabric of Order (2015) History of European Ideas, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2015.1077147 Abstract The essay argues that Jeremy Bentham played a major role in the transitional process between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries leading to the ‘discovery’ or ‘invention of society’ as …
Casey, M., Mooney, A., Smyth, J., Payne, W. ‘Power, regulation and physically active identities’: the experiences of rural and regional living adolescent girls (2015) Gender and Education, 20 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1093098 Abstract Drawing on interpretations of Foucault’s techniques of power, we explored the discourses and power relations operative between groups of girls …
Barker-Ruchti, N., Barker, D., Sattler, S., Gerber, M., Pühse, U. Second Generation Immigrant Girls’ Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland: A Foucauldian Reading (2015) Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16 (4), pp. 1213-1229. DOI: 10.1007/s12134-014-0386-9 Abstract Although overtly racist political discourse in Switzerland has receded, culturalist discourses continue to construct ideal immigrants. Policies define …
Llewellyn, A. Problematising the pursuit of progress in mathematics education (2015) Educational Studies in Mathematics, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10649-015-9645-8 Abstract In this article, I use a Foucauldian poststructural analysis to examine productions of progress within key discursive spaces of mathematics education. These sites of production are educational policy, mathematics education research and …
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