PHILOSOPHY – Michel Foucault The School of Life Published on 3 Jul 2015 Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn’t …
Manan, S.A., David, M.K., Dumanig, F.P. Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan (2014) Language Policy, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10993-014-9343-x Abstract Pakistan is a multilingual and multiethnic country; however, this diversity stands unrecognized in the formal language-in-education policies. Estimates suggest that about 90 % of children …
Lopes, E., Carter, D., Street, J. Power relations and contrasting conceptions of evidence in patient-involvement processes used to inform health funding decisions in Australia (2015) Social Science and Medicine, 135, pp. 84-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.021 Abstract We collected and analysed views of key stakeholders on the processes used to involve patient organisations in health care funding …
Hanna, P. Reconceptualizing subjectivity in critical social psychology: Turning to Foucault (2013) Theory and Psychology, 23 (5), pp. 657-674. DOI: 10.1177/0959354313493152 Abstract This article focuses on a reading of Foucault which draws on “technologies of the self,” as opposed to “technologies of subjectivity,” and examines the relevance of this work for critical psychology. The article …
Voyce, M. From Ethics to Aesthetics: A Reconsideration of Buddhist Monastic Rules in the Light of Michel Foucault’s Work on Ethics (2015) Contemporary Buddhism, 31 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2015.1020735 Abstract This article considers the recent debate over the nature of Buddhist ethics largely conducted by scholars who have argued in different ways that …
Julian Vigo, Biopower and Security, Counterpunch, May 05, 2015 Full text online In The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge (L’histoire de la sexualité, La volonté de savoir), Michel Foucault defines biopower as the practices engaged by the modern state to effect an “an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations …
Gourlay, L. Open education as a ‘heterotopia of desire’ (2015) Learning, Media and Technology, 18 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2015.1029941 Abstract The movement towards ‘openness’ in education has tended to position itself as inherently democratising, radical, egalitarian and critical of powerful gatekeepers to learning. While ‘openness’ is often positioned as a critique, I will …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This has been the period between submitting the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript and waiting for reader reports. I’ve largely been doing other things – talks on terrain and urban territory; editing a Lefebvre translation and writing its introduction; writing a response to a review forum on The Birth of Territory;…
O’Neill, A.-M. The New Zealand experiment: assessment-driven curriculum – managing standards, competition and performance to strengthen governmentality (2015) Journal of Education Policy, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1033766 Abstract Following the Tomorrow’s Schools administrative restructuring, a second wave of educational change installed globalised discourses as governmentality policies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on Foucault’s …
Hamdi Nabli, Foucault et Baudrillard: La fin du pouvoir, L’Harmattan, 2015 ISBN : 978-2-343-05754-5 • 1 juin 2015 • 214 pages Foucault, dans son Histoire de la sexualité, esquissa une anthropologie du plaisir dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine. Ce travail avait constitué un virage, car depuis Mai 68, l’intellectuel avait fait de l’engagement le vecteur des résistances …
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