A. Kiarina Kordela, Monsters of biopower: Terror(ism) and horror in the era of affect (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 193-205. Special Issue: The Power of the Monstrous Update 12 July 2026: The DOI is listed as https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2016113104 but link does not resolve to article – so see link above. Abstract This paper argues that …
Francesca Moore, ‘A band of public-spirited women’: Middle-class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918 (2016) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41 (2), pp. 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12114 Abstract In the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the cultural ideal of private and public as separate spheres and a lack of formal voting …
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 …
Stephane J Baele, Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe’s refugee crisis?, The Conversation, February 25, 2016 Translation into French Translation into Turkish In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health …
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 …
Michael R. Griffiths, Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture, Routledge, 2015 About the Book From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international …
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 …
Carl Yngfalk, Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2015) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19(3), 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with State regulation. Drawing on …
Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds), Foucault and Neoliberalism, Polity Press, 2016 Description Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault …
Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar (Eds), Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, University of Chicago Press, 2015 Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a …
