Donald Gillies, Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault, Routledge, 2013 Publisher’s site Description Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today’s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault’s understanding of critique is as a ‘permanent’ ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a summary table of the plans, the lecture courses and related…
Oels, A.(2013), Rendering climate change governable by risk: From probability to contingency Geoforum, 45, pp. 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.09.007 Abstract In this paper, I use Foucault’s concept of governmentality to investigate changes in the risk management of climate change. In an exploratory analysis of primary and secondary sources, I demonstrate that the risk construction of climate change has shifted significantly …
Originally posted on Philosophy for change:
This is the first instalment in a three-part series. Part 2. I tweet, therefore I become Part 3. The call of the crowd ——————————————- You start the day bleary-eyed and anxious. You stayed up late last night working on a post for your blog, gathering facts and memes from…
David Nowell Smith, Surfaces: Painterly illusion, metaphysical depth, Paragraph, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-406 https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2012.0066 Abstract This essay analyses the way in which the relation between surface and depth in modern painting is endowed with philosophical significance in the work of Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Henry. Whereas Foucault considered the work …
Marnia Lazreg, Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles? (2013) Contemporary Arab Affairs, 6 (1), pp. 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2012.757884 Abstract This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ’empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ …
Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War, Duke University Press, 2013 Description Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser’s career have been made available in French since his death …
Teresa Macias, ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile (2013) International Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.701912 Abstract In the same way that torture has become a common and privileged instrument of war and political repression, and a regular occurrence of our time, so, too, has the question of …
Burke A. Hendrix, Where should we expect social change in non-ideal theory? (2013) Political Theory, 41 (1), pp. 116-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591712463201 Abstract This essay considers the relationship between ideal theory and non-ideal theory. It begins with Rawls’s conception of ideal theory and A. John Simmons’s articulation of non-ideal theory. Both defend the priority of ideal theory …
Eva Vakirtzi, Phil Bayliss, Towards a Foucauldian Methodology in the Study of Autism: Issues of Archaeology, Genealogy, and Subjectification (2013) Journal of Philosophy of Education Volume 47, Issue 3, pages 364–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12004 Abstract The remarkable increase in diagnoses of autism has paralleled an increase in scientific research and turned the syndrome into a kind of …
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