Burrows, L., Holden, D., Tynan, E. Untangling Maralinga: Spatial and Temporal Complexities of Australia’s Atomic Anthropocene (2023) Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (3), pp. 515-530. DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2199757 Abstract Reflecting on the atomic test sites in the South Australian desert, this article analyses the bisociation of cultural and historical spaces with geographical and geological formations. We …
Titre complet: SPHEPS 2023-2024 – Cycle des invitations – Etienne BALIBAR, “Structure et politique: les différences anthropologiques” (7 février 2024) Cette vidéo est l’enregistrement de la séance du 7 février 2024 du SPHePS (Séminaire Permanent d’Histoire et de Philosophie du Structuralisme), organisé par Jeanne Etelain et Patrice Maniglier. Le séminaire alterne entre un cycle de …
[…] this problem of being “on time” and not being on time as you know was one of the main problems in Greek ethics— the notion of kairos. Kairos is the right moment. In the first Greek texts, the problem for ethics was choosing the right moment to do something. […] In general, I think …
Michel Foucault | History of Sexuality | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks, Feb 10, 2024 “The History of Sexuality” is Michel Foucault’s examination of the history of discourse about and practice of sexuality over the past three centuries. While sexuality was open in the seventeenth century and relatively closed through the Victorian era, it might …
Jacobs, K., Malpas, J. Politics, Sociology, and the “Inevitability” of Failure Routledge International Handbook of Failure, Edited By Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets, Paweł Kubicki, Routledge, (2023) pp. 423-432. DOI: 10.4324/9780429355950-36 Abstract The chapter begins by pointing out the contribution of sociological interpretations that focus on failure’s discursive and normative effects; for example, as …
Papoli-Yazdi, L., Hogland, W. Wreckage Installation: Towards an Archaeology of Southern Sweden’s Heterotopias (2023) European Journal of Archaeology, 26 (2), pp. 189-208. DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2022.44 Abstract During a survey on the island of Öland in south-eastern Sweden, whose aim was to study the local waste-disposal practices, the authors recorded abandoned machinery and cars dating from the …
Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre. À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt, Éditions Mimésis, 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue pourtant un rôle déterminant dans l’œuvre de l’auteur. Les réflexions de Foucault sont ici mises …
Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals. Interspecies Empire in Myanmar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Book description Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the …
Robert Badinter, a just man for posterity EDITORIAL Le Monde, 10 February 2024 The former French justice minister died on Friday. It is salutary to recall his righteousness and intransigence at a time when France’s interior minister is pitting politics against law, the role of the Constitutional Council is being challenged, and prison overcrowding is …
Greer, K., King, H., Glackin, M. ‘Standing back’ or ‘stepping up’? Exploring climate change education policy influence in England (2023) British Educational Research Journal DOI: 10.1002/berj.3888 Abstract This paper explores the nature of climate change education-related policy influence in England at a time when public consciousness about the need to accelerate climate change action was …
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