Mitchell Dean & Daniel Zamora (2022) Politics as a Confession: Confronting the Enemy Within, Political Theology, Published online: 02 Aug 2022 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2105280 ABSTRACT In this article, we claim, firstly, that the turn to an “ethical” politics focused on subjectivity and its transformation, announced by post-structuralist theorists in the 1970s, can be found today in …
Special Issue – Call for papers: Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times, Foucault Studies PDF of call for papers Foucault Studies Special issue call for papers Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times Guest editors Annika Skoglund, Uppsala University Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Kazi Nazrul University and ILSR, Calcutta Fabiana Jardim, University of São Paulo David Armstrong, King’s College …
Meinard, Y. The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises (2022) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44 (2), art. no. 25. DOI: 10.1007/s40656-022-00509-8 Abstract Conservation biology is a branch of ecology devoted to conserving biodiversity. Because this discipline is based on the assumption that knowledge should guide actions, it endows experts with …
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. Contention and social order: The historical relation between political and social riot dispositives (2022) European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology DOI: 10.1080/23254823.2022.2081230 Abstract The relation between political contention and social order is a fundamental field of sociological inquiry. This article puts forward a dispositive perspective on the relation by analysing its constitution …
Finefter-Rosenbluh, I. Between student voice-based assessment and teacher-student relationships: teachers’ responses to ‘techniques of power’ in schools (2022) British Journal of Sociology of Education DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2080043 Abstract This paper draws upon Foucault’s problematisation of governmentality analysis to explore teacher interviews from Australian secondary schools, where student voice was ‘enacted’ within a teacher assessment reform strategy. …
Early, J. Contemporary Confessional Forms and Confessional Art (2022) Third Text DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2022.2074197 Abstract Within our twenty-first century confessional landscape, a new set of possibilities for confession has been realised which, in relation to the chronology of confessional art, expands on the political and social conditions visible in pre-millennial cultural politics. The confessional turn in …
Ericsson, D. Space technologies and cultural organizations (2022) The Metamorphosis of Cultural and Creative Organizations: Exploring Change from a Spatial Perspective, Edited By Federica De Molli, Marilena Veccopp. 141-154. DOI: 10.4324/9781003134671-10 Abstract In this chapter the ongoing reconfigurations of the cultural and creative sectors, in which the dichotomy between producers and consumers is being repealed, …
Dussel, I. What Might a Material Turn to Educational Histories Add to the History of Education? Proof-eating the Pudding (2021) In Van Ruyskensvelde, Sarah, Thyssen, Geert, Herman, Frederik, Van Gorp, Angelo and Verstraete, Pieter. (Eds) Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. pp. 449-468. DOI: …
Wu, B. Authenticity and wellbeing in neoliberal times: Imagining alternatives (2021) In Healthy Relationships in Higher Education: Promoting Wellbeing Across Academia, Edited by Narelle Lemon, Routledge, pp. 197-209. DOI: 10.4324/9781003144984-18 Abstract At the centre of the neoliberal endeavour is an idealised self for the governed – the entrepreneurial self. Although touted as free and autonomous, …
Ilott, Luke. “Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking.” Political Theory, (July 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221103296. Abstract Michel Foucault was an energetic activist, yet his bleak depiction of totalizing power and his refusal to make normative claims have led many to judge that Discipline and Punish (1975) did not sustain a positive political project. …
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