Gabriel Rockhill, The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback, Monthly Review, 1 June 2023 Like any major social and political movement, the events referred to as those of May 1968 have multiple different aspects and internal contradictions. They cannot be easily summed up in terms of a …
Pennacchia, J. Exclusionary tactics in English secondary education: an analysis of fair access protocols (2023) Journal of Education Policy DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2023.2222409 Abstract Although all young people in England are entitled to a full-time, state-funded education suitable to their needs, every year some are without a school place and must be found one through local fair …
Devi Akella, Looking beyond the gaze. A reflective faculty learning experience In Anteliz, E. A., Mulligan, D. L., & Danaher, P. A. Eds. The Routledge international handbook of autoethnography in educational research, Routledge, 2023 Extract from introduction Numerous articles emphasising the need for international cultural immersion and community engagement experiences which encourage students to be …
Morag Carol Paton, Carving Space for Staff Agency in a Faculty of Medicine: A Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis of administrative staff and faculty relations, PhD. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2023 Abstract Administrative staff in higher education have been described as invisible (Eveline, 2004; Szekeres, 2004) and often characterized as being “non-academic, …
Kaufman, S.R., Morgan, L.M. The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life (2023) Medical Anthropology, pp. 465-490. DOI: 10.4324/9781315249360-40 Abstract This essay reviews recent anthropological attention to the “beginnings” and “endings” of life. A large literature since the 1990s highlights the analytic trends and innovations that characterize anthropological attention to the cultural production of …
Iguchi, Y., Rashid, A., Afiqah, S.N. Female Genital Cutting and the “Medical Gaze” in Southeast Asia, In Kyoko Nakamura, Kaori Miyachi, Yukio Miyawaki, Makiko Toda (eds) Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities, Springer (2023), pp. 127-140. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6723-8_9 Open access Abstract This article discusses female …
Eugene B. Young, Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power. Deleuze via Blanchot, Bloomsbury, 2022 Description Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze’s thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining …
Fan Yang, Habermas, Foucault and the Political-Legal Discussions in China. A Discourse on Law and Democracy, Springer 2022 About this book This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context. After arguing that Habermas’s Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy is too normative and idealistic, it presents Foucault’s Discourse Theory …
Kjaran, J.I., Kristinsdóttir, G. Working on violent self: how perpetrators of IPV narrate about and position themselves during and after therapy? An example from Iceland (2023) Nordic Social Work Research, 13 (2), pp. 348-361. DOI: 10.1080/2156857X.2021.1991443 Abstract In this paper the aim is to explore how men who have been violent and abusive in their …
Menard, R., Törrönen, J. Immigration, Multiculturalism and Biopolitical Projects on ‘Difference’: Negotiating Intersecting Social Divisions From Positions of Privilege and Disadvantage (2023) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 13 (1), pp. 1-23. DOI: 10.33134/njmr.513 Abstract Informed by Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, in this study we examine how lived experiences of privilege and disadvantage may be at …
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