Barros, S.R. Deciphering Babel: Dis/locations of the professional self and the second language curriculum (2013) Qualitative Report, 18 (52). Full PDF Abstract In the following (auto) ethnographic study, I draw from Burdick’s (2012) analogy of qualitative research as “auto-archeology” and from parrhesia (Foucault, 1988) as a rhetorical device of self-definition and preservation to explore the …
Alessandro Baccarin, Il sottile discrimine. I corpi tra dominio e tecniche del sé. Ombre Corte, 2014 Il libro Il corpo è stato per secoli immune al segno. Dall’antichità fino al recente passato l’Occidente ha relegato la segnatura del corpo al confinamento, alla segregazione ed alla reificazione dei soggetti devianti, criminali o inquinanti. Tuttavia nella contemporaneità …
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Launches New Center Will Be Directed By Critical Thought Professor Bernard E. Harcourt, Who Has Challenged Conventional Wisdom on Practices including Mass Incarceration, Free Market Economics, Broken Windows Policing, and Racial Profiling Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu New York, October 7, 2014—The roots of critical thought go back …
Performing Sexual Liberation: The Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography A critical counter point to the current academic trend for analysing pornography as sexually liberating for women Further info Date 24 October 2014 Duration One day Venue College Court Fee £7 Contact Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans hbe1@le.ac.uk Book now only 50 places …
Andrew Zimmerman, Foucault in Berkeley and Magnitogorsk: Totalitarianism and the limits of liberal critique (2014) Contemporary European History, 23 (2), pp. 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777314000101 Abstract Returning to Stephen Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization almost two decades after its publication allows us to take stock, from a slight temporal distance, of the reception in our …
Colin Gordon, Plato in Weimar. Weber revisited via Foucault: two lectures on legitimation and vocation, Economy and Society, Volume 43, Issue 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.956464 The text that follows brings together two papers about resonances between late lectures: Weber’s lectures of 1918 on science and politics as vocations, and Foucault’s final courses (1980–84) on subjectivity, …
Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance, Edited by Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada, Jean Daniel Jacob, University of Ottawa, Canada and Amélie Perron University of Ottawa, Canada Ashgate, 2014 Further info Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, …
Meenal Tula & Rekha Pande Re-inscribing the Indian courtesan: A genealogical approach (2014) Journal of International Women’s Studies, 15 (1), pp. 67-82. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol15/iss1/5/ Full PDF Abstract Women historiography has been one of the major concerns of the feminist movement particularly since 1960s. Looking at the figure of the courtesan in India-its histories, representations, repression and …
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Some background: A few weeks ago on Twitter I floated around the idea of writing a semi-regular blog post on my experiences reading Foucault for the first time as a neuroscience grad student/MRI researcher. There was some interest, so here’s my first write-up on my experiences and reactions to reading Michel…
Paul Hanna Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in Psychology: Reflecting on a Hybrid Reading of Foucault When Researching “Ethical Subjects” (2014) Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11 (2), pp. 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2013.853853 Abstract This article attempts to address a novel dilemma the author recently faced when undertaking qualitative psychological research into sustainable tourism. The article embraces notions of reflexivity …
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