Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, Astérion (ENS de Lyon), 21/2019 https://doi.org/10.4000/asterion.4074 Challenging Foucault with psychiatry and psychoanalysis Sous la direction de Laurent DARTIGUES et Elisabetta BASSO Open access Le dossier a pour but d’interroger, à partir de Michel Foucault, le lien entre la réflexion épistémologique sur la santé mentale et …
Najeeb A. Jan, The Metacolonial State: Pakistan, Critical Ontology, and the Biopolitical Horizons of Political Islam, Wiley 2019 The Metacolonial State presents a novel rethinking of the relationship between Islam and the Political. Key to the text is an original argument regarding the “biopoliticization of Islam” and the imperative need for understanding sovereign power and …
Paul Horton, School bullying and bare life: Challenging the state of exception EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, Volume: 51 Issue: 14, 2019, Pages: 1444-1453 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1557043 Despite a vast amount of research into school bullying and the widespread implementation of anti-bullying policies and programs, large numbers of students continue to report that they are routinely subjected to …
Kathleen Frederickson, Queer speciation: Or, Darwin on and off the farm (2018) Victorian Studies, 60, no. 2 (2018): 228-235.. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.60.2.08 Abstract In the debates over futurity that have pervaded queer theory in the early years of this millennium, the species plot has found less prevalence than it might have done. While Foucaultian biopower continues to …
Paul Michael Garrett, Revisiting ‘The birth of biopolitics’: Foucault’s account of neoliberalism and the remaking of social policy (2019) Journal of Social Policy, 48 (3), pp. 469-487. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279418000582 Abstract The article charts the history and trajectory of neoliberalism provided in Foucault’s 1979 lectures on ‘The Birth of Biopolitics’. In these fascinating contributions, first published …
Péter Kakuk (ed), Bioethics and Biopolitics. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 8. Springer, Cham, 2017 This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. …
Eric Sarmiento, Catharina Landström, Sarah Whatmore, Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro-citizenship: Drought management and water governance in England (2019) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44 (2), pp. 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12288 Abstract In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” …
Special issue: The Politics of Life, European Journal of Social Theory, Volume 22 Issue 3, August 2019 Editorial Introduction: This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by …
Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell, Thomas F. Carter, The Anthropology of Sport. Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics, University of California Press, 2017 Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional …
Ítala Nepomuceno, Hugo Affonso, James Angus Fraser, Maurício Torres, Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia (2019) Global Environmental Change, 56, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.004 Abstract This paper contributes to the theory of environmentality – the ‘conduct of conduct’ with regard to the environment …
