CFP: Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History This year’s theme: Genealogies Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 3-5, 2011 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 The Executive Committee of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois …
The first of 7 videos Giorgio Agamben conducting a seminar on the creation of the subject in the work of of Michel Foucault. Agamben examined the idea of the subject (through a discussion of the role of the author) by contrasting theories of subjectivity between Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. Agamben discussed the chiasmatic relationship …
Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending, Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2010 About the Book What does globalization mean for the principle of state sovereignty and for the power and functioning of states? Whereas realists assert the continued importance of states, constructivists contend that various political entities …
Mariana Valverde, ‘Specters of Foucault in Law and Society Scholarship’ Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol 6 (October 2010) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102209-152951 Abstract To reflect on how we, in 2010, might make the best use of the analytical tools developed by Michel Foucault, we need first to go back to the 1970s and situate his …
Book published in 2013 Omar Moufakkir, Yvette Reisinger, The host gaze in global tourism Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists’ perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, ‘The Tourist Gaze’, which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is a unique book for researchers and students as …
Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet, ‘Accounting for Foucault’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, no 6, vol 21, August 2010, 486-495 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2009.08.006 Abstract Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality has been central to critical accounting research for two decades, a centrality that has placed systems of calculation as the starting point of discussions of the state, the firm …
Erin Quinn, “Surveillance” , Centre for Creative Practices in Pembroke Street, Dublin, August 2010 From The Irish Times 2010 […] Quinn drills home the manner in which we are relentlessly watched on screen. Her photographs and footage deal with the increased surveillance of public, work and private spaces in modern life. Quinn takes airports as …
Alain Beaulieu, ‘Towards a liberal Utopia: The connection between Foucault’s reporting on the Iranian Revolution and the ethical turn’, Philosophy Social Criticism September 2010, vol. 36 no. 7, 801-818 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453710372065 Abstract The shift in Foucault’s work from genealogy to ethics finds consensus among Foucault scholars. However, the motivations behind this transition remain either misunderstood or …
Foucault, the Family & Politics Friday, 12 November 2010 Location: King’s College, Keynes Hall Registration for this conference is free. Conveners Robbie Duschinsky (Sociology, University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Browne (Gender Studies, University of Cambridge) Dr Deborah Thom (History, University of Cambridge) Foucault writes of how the internal power-dynamics of the family interact with the …
Tell, Dave. “Rhetoric and Power: An Inquiry into Foucault’s Critique of Confession.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 43.2 (Spring 2010): 95-117. Lead Article. https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.43.2.0095 Abstract In the 1980s Foucault relentlessly distinguished between two discursive practices: the Christian confession and the ancient technologies of the self. This distinction provides a valuable opportunity to study the role of rhetoric …
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