Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Security: Biopolitics, security and risk, London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-58343-5 Description Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security …
Employment opportunity Research Associate Keele University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Institute of Law, Politics and Justice (Fixed Term for 12 months) Starting Salary: Grade 7: £29,853 p.a. A one-year post-doctoral research position is available within a project entitled Capitalising security through life insurance in the UK; directed by Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero and …
See this news item The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) celebrated its relaunch at Kingston University by announcing its new partnership with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris 8. The CRMEP is one of the very few philosophy centres which is focused on European philosophy in English language universities. …
For further details in Japanese see here University of Tokyo Centre for Philosophy Lecture: MAEDA Koichi “Michel Foucault and Film” Date: 17:00-18:30, October 15 (Fri), 2010 Place: Seminar Room, 2F, Building 101, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo Language: Japanese Admission Free No Registration Required
The Government of Self and Other: On Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982/3 Date: 2 December 2010 , 10:00 to 17:00 Location: Bolivar Hall, Kingston University, 54 Grafton Way, London W1 Speakers Mathieu Potte Boneville (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris) John Marks (French, Nottingham University) Johanna Oksala (Philosophy, Dundee University) Miguel de Beistegui …
Call for Papers: The Green Apparatus? Political Technologies of the Sustainable City Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16th April 2011, Seattle, USA. Session organized by Stephanie Wakefield (CUNY Graduate Center) and Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) “Nature is the new civic ideal.” —Alexandros Washburn, Director of Urban Design for the NYC Department of City …
Wong, James, The Care of the Self: Possibilities for Associative Politics (2010). APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. Update August 2025. Link no longer available Abstract Foucault’s late work, in particular his research on practices of the ‘care of the self’ has been seen by some authors as a possible resource for democratic theory (Connolly, Simons). …
Gaines, Stephen. and Lepadatu, Darina. “Revisiting Michel Foucault and His Contributions to Social Theory”, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA, Aug 13, 2010 Update: August 2025. Link no longer available Abstract Under the method of genealogical study and philosophical analysis, …
Call for Papers – ‘French Theory : reception in the visual arts in the United States between 1965 and 1995′ (Brussels, May, 2011) Summary There are many American artists, active in the second half of the twentieth century, whose practice and theory have been infuenced by philosophy, literary studies and social sciences. In this regard, …
A review by Thosaeng Chaochuti which appears on the New Mandala blog draws attention to a chapter on the uptake of Foucault in Thailand. Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, eds., The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand, with a foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Hong Kong and Ithaca: Hong …
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