Sean R. Roberts,The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs (2018) Critical Asian Studies, 50 (2), pp. 232-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 Abstract This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist threat from this …
Mike Gane, The New Foucault Effect, Cultural Politics Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2018, pp. 109-127 This review article considers two lecture courses by Michel Foucault (1972–73, 1979–80) and two books relating to the whole series of lectures (1970–84) by Stuart Elden. Foucault’s lecture courses can be divided into three phases, the first focused on …
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 …
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