Carol Bacchi, What’s the Problem Represented to Be? A New Thinking Paradigm, Routledge, 2025 Description Originally developed as a mode of critical policy analysis, ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’: A New Thinking Paradigm extends the thinking behind the innovative ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach to new areas of investigation. It poses …
Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism. Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities, University of Georgia Press, 2025. Interview on the New Books Network, 23 January 2026 A historical geography of spaces of anticolonialism in the capital of contemporary India Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. …
Gilles Deleuze, Corso su Michel Foucault. Il sapere| Il potere| La soggettivazione, Ombre Corte, 2025 In occasione del centenario della nascita di Gilles Deleuze, tornano disponibili in un elegante cofanetto tutte le lezioni che il filosofo francese ha tenuto tra il 1985 e il 1986, nel corso dedicato all’opera dell’amico Foucault, a un anno dalla …
Evan Easton-Calabria, (2025) ‘How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda’, in L. Oesch and L. Lemaire (eds) Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529222852-015. Despite an increased recognition of urban refugees, there is startlingly limited research on the relationship between the …
Timothy O’Leary, (2026). Fiction’s critique: Gray’s Poor Things and the conduct of sensibility. Textual Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2608009 ABSTRACT This essay explores how works of literary fiction contribute to the aims of critique, understood along Foucauldian lines as a transformative engagement with modes of subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, these …
Richard Wolin, (2025). Blanchot Collabo: From the Jeune Droite to Jeune France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 43(1), 93-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2025.430105 Abstract Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was best known for his pathbreaking forays in literary criticism: dense meditations on the abyss of literary meaning, culminating in his radical insight concerning the ontological impossibility of writing or écriture. …
Dimitri M’Bama and William Tilleczek (2026). The Asceticism of the Oppressed: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Collective Self-Transformation. Political Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251398786 Abstract Asceticism has a bad reputation in political and social theory—insofar as it has any reputation at all. If it is not ignored entirely, it tends to be aligned with either political elitism …
Kurt Borg, (2026). Foucault and Business Ethics. In: Luetge, C., Thejls Ziegler, M. (eds) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6176-6_118-1 Abstract This chapter presents an overview of a range of analyses within business ethics which have been informed by the work of Michel Foucault. It considers work in business ethics …
Eduan Breedt, Erin Tichenor & Tim Barlott (2025), Diagnosing the body in physiotherapy: the passage from discipline to control. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2025.2585138 ABSTRACT The concept of the body as a biomechanical machine was central to legitimizing physiotherapy and defining its professional identity. As society transitioned from Michel Foucault’s disciplinary formation to Gilles …
Clancy Wilmott, Mobile Mapping Space, Cartography and the Digital, Routledge, 2020 This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography — and the work …
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