La pensée politique de Foucault sous la direction d’Orazio IRRERA et Salvo VACCARO, Paris, Editions Kimé (coll. “Philosophie en cours”), 2017, p. 248. Loin d’être considérée comme une simple notion appartenant au vocabulaire de la théorie politique, l’idée foucaldienne de la politique renvoie plutôt à une attitude généalogique fournissant un diagnostic du présent et restituant …
Luca Mavelli, Governing the resilience of neoliberalism through biopolitics (2017) European Journal of International Relations, 23 (3), pp. 489-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116676321 Abstract Neoliberalism is widely regarded as the main culprit for the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. However, despite this abysmal failure, neoliberalism has not merely survived the crisis, but actually ‘thrived’. How is it possible to …
Lev Marder, Rethinking homo economicus in the political sphere. Constellations, 31 August 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12295 Abstract: Homo-economicus, this rational cost-benefit calculating interest-pursuing subject, in political analysis usually stands for the ordinary citizen little interested in unprofitable political knowledge. This subject appears as an obstacle to democratic governance, but it does not have to appear as such. …
Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience (2017) Journal of Cultural Economy, 10(6), 498–509. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2017.1354312 Abstract Development is concerned with the biological security and well-being of people, and so all development theory and practice are biopolitical in a fundamental sense. The paper argues that for development to be made meaningful, …
Silvio Gallo, The care of the self and biopolitics: Resistance and practices of freedom (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204735 Translated from Portuguese by Gabriela Salim Spagnol and Davina Marques. Abstract This text through the direct use to Foucault’s work and using the concepts of ‘care of the self’ and biopolitics …
Rik Peeters & Marc Schuilenburg, The birth of mindpolitics: understanding nudging in public health policy, Social Theory & Health, 09 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-016-0024-z Abstract This article addresses the question: ‘In what ways have nudging and other behavioural techniques entered the realm of policymaking for public health and what does that mean for the way contemporary …
Silvio Gallo, The care of the self and biopolitics: Resistance and practices of freedom (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(7), 691–701. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204735 Abstract This text through the direct use to Foucault’s work and using the concepts of ‘care of the self’ and biopolitics is questioning and analyzing resistance and practices of freedom. Mainly, from the …
Julio Groppa Aquino, Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim, Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research, Sisyphus – Journal of Education, 2015, vol 3, no.3, 10-37. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.8900 Abstract The article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates …
Ege Selin Islekel Ubu-esque sovereign, monstrous individual: Death in biopolitics (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 175-191. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2016113103 Abstract Foucault characterizes the defining feature of modern politics in terms of a new form of power concerned with maximizing life, biopolitics, as opposed to the sovereign right to kill. This characterization becomes problematic, especially when the …
Lars Thorup Larsen (2015): “The problematization of fertility treatment: biopolitics and IVF policy in Denmark”, Distinktion 16(3): 318-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2015.1089520 Abstract: With the demographic challenges facing many European states, one would perhaps expect the state to invoke a biopolitical imperative to ‘faire vivre’, as Foucault termed it, and attempt to regulate birth rates. This expectation is …
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