Raúl Sánchez García and Antonio Rivero Herraiz, ‘Governmentality’ in the origins of European female PE and sport: The Spanish case study (1883-1936) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (4), 2013, pp. 494-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.601735 Abstract The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern European female PE and …
Jonathan Beever, Nicolae C. Morar (Editors), Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy, Purdue University Press, 2013 Book Description In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual “Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science,” the chapters explore interconnections …
Foucault, Governmentality,Biopolitics – Analytical strategies for critique of power (PhD course, 11-13 December 2013) Faculty • Jeffrey Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. • Mitchell Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle, Denmark/Australia, • Thomas Dumm, Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, USA. • Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. …
Isacco Turina, Vatican biopolitics (2013) Social Compass, 60 (1), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612471776 Abstract The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on …
The Unsaveables: Sovereignty and Biopolitics in the 18th Brumaire Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) Date: Tuesday 6 August Time: 1 p.m. Venue: Morven Brown 310, University of NSW ) I approach the 18th Brumaire from a double trajectory. First, I examine its relation to how the exception was thought in the work of Carl Schmitt and …
Katarina Damjanov, Lunar cemetery: Global heterotopia and the biopolitics of death (2013) Leonardo, 46 (2), pp. 159-162. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00516 Abstract The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel …
Spieker, J. Defending the open society: Foucault, Hayek, and the problem of biopolitical order (2013) Economy and Society, 42 (2), pp. 304-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.687929 Abstract The aim of this paper is to throw new light on a previously neglected aspect of Hayek’s political theory. In order to show the significance of Hayek’s evolutionary argument, the paper draws on Foucault’s thesis about …
Mark Kelly, Michel Foucault’s Political Thought, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013 The work of twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault has increasingly influenced the study of politics. This influence has mainly been via concepts he developed in particular historical studies that have been taken up as analytical tools; “governmentality” and ”biopower” are the most prominent of …
Teresa Macias, ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile (2013) International Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.701912 Abstract In the same way that torture has become a common and privileged instrument of war and political repression, and a regular occurrence of our time, so, too, has the question of …
Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical authority, objectivity and the groundwork of modern citizenship Journal of Political Power Volume 6, Issue 1, 2013 Special Issue: Special Issue on Authority http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2013.774968 Abstract Authority is a powerful concept for coming to terms with the diversity of power. This article reframes the concept of ‘authority’ and articulates its continued relevance in …
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