Nildo Avelino, Confession and Political Normativity: Control of Subjectivity and Production of the Subject, May 4th 2015. This article is the result of research activities held at the Department of Social Sciences (Federal University of Paraiba/UFPB). Full text available on Academia.edu. Abstract The theme of confession, present in the reflection of Michel Foucault since the …
Miller, H.E., Thomas, S.L., Smith, K.M., Robinson, P. Surveillance, responsibility and control: An analysis of government and industry discourses about “problem” and “responsible” gambling (2015) Addiction Research and Theory, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2015.1094060 Abstract Background: Discussions of gambling have traditionally focused on ideas of “problem” and “responsible” gambling. However, few studies have …
Kelly Quinn and Renee M. Powers Revisiting the concept of ‘sharing’ for digital spaces: an analysis of reader comments to online news (2015) Information Communication and Society, 19(4), 442–460. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1092565 Abstract ‘Sharing’ as it relates to the online environment is underconceptualized, and yet has been proposed as a means for understanding how individuals negotiate everyday …
Vinod Kumar Rawat, Knowledge-Power/Resistance: Beyond Bacon, Ambedkar and Foucault, Partridge India Publication, 2014 Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Educational institutes, that is, “knowledge factories,” apart from producing self-governing citizens, and skilled docile workers, function as minute social observatories that indirectly monitor their families. Michel Foucault delineates power in terms of Pastoral (church and salvation), Sovereign (visible …
Christopher R. Mayes, Revisiting Foucault’s ‘Normative Confusions’: Surveying the Debate Since the Collège de France Lectures, Philosophy Compass, Volume 10, Issue 12, pages 841–855, December 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12274 Abstract At once historical and philosophical, Michel Foucault used his genealogical method to expose the contingent conditions constituting the institutions, sciences and practices of the present. His analyses …
Alessandro Baccarin, L’esploratore e l’intruso. Le scienze dell’antichità di fronte a Michel Foucault, Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia, n.° 5, Gennaio-Giugno 2015, pp. 217-242 A trent’anni dalla sua scomparsa, Michel Foucault costituisce ancora una figura chiave per gli antichisti che indagano le problemantiche inerenti la sessualità e il genere nelle società antiche. Oggi, …
Arpad Szakolczai, Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Routledge, 1998 About the Book Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a …
Christopher Mayes, The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices, Routledge, 2016. Forthcoming About the Book A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use …
Séminaire Michel Foucault : « Foucault et la question sociale » Année 2015-2016 Flyer – PDF Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Lille 3 Séance n°1 (UPEC) – 18/12/15 Campus centre, Salle des thèses (bâtiment P, rdc), 14h-18h Présentation générale du séminaire Alex Feldman (U. Penn) : ” Foucault et la sociologie de la connaissance ” Ivan Ponton …
Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar (Eds), Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, University of Chicago Press, 2015 Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a …
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