Hannigan, David, (1998) From aboriginality to governmentality: the meaning of section 35(1) and the power of legal discourse, Master of Laws thesis, University of British Columbia Full text available This thesis examines recent doctrinal developments regarding the aboriginal and treaty rights which are recognised and affirmed in s.35(l) of the Constitution Act, 1982. Specifically, it …
Editor: With thanks to the researcher who sent me this dossier. Foucault’s work is invoked in this media controversy. François Ewald, Apologie de Claude Allègre Les Echos.fr 2/3/10 Voir aussi ce lien […] Le travail de Claude Allègre montre que la thèse du réchauffement climatique produit par l’activité humaine suppose tout un dispositif à la …
Alan McKinlay and Ken Starkey (eds) Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self, Sage, 1998 This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault’s contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization. The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault’s contribution to organization theory, which also …
Student reads Foucault to donkey (2012) Published on May 11, 2012 8 May 2012 was International Donkey Day. Editor: The student doesn’t appear to be reading from Foucault himself but from J.G. Merquior’s 1985 book Foucault (Fontana Press). The donkey appears to be less than attentive! Donkey Conference at SOAS (School of Oriental and African …
Paul Rabinow, Foucault’s Untimely Struggle. Toward a Form of Spirituality, Theory, Culture & Society November 2009 vol. 26 no. 6 25-44 doi: 10.1177/0263276409347699 Abstract In his series of essays on Kant written during the 1980s, Michel Foucault attempted to discern the difference today made with respect to yesterday. As his essays as well as his …
Călin COTOI, Neoliberalism: a Foucauldian Perspective, International Review of Social Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2011, 109-124 Full PDF Abstract: The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been …
Oliver Davis, Foucault Tomorrow: Codicil for a Queer Pharmatopia mp3 of paper delivered in February 2014. Also here
Laura Rice, Of Irony and Empire. Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa, SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies, 2007 Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa. Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly …
McGarry, Michael (2013) “To read, write, and cast accounts”: Foucault, Governmentality and Education in Upper Canada/Canada West, Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto Full text ABSTRACT Contributing to the work of philosophers of education who have been examining issues of economy and emancipation, this dissertation employs a set of critical lenses drawn from Foucault’s investigation of …
Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse. Exercises in Genealogical Criticism, University of Minnesota Press, 1994 As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end …
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