Evan Easton-Calabria, (2025) ‘How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda’, in L. Oesch and L. Lemaire (eds) Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529222852-015. Despite an increased recognition of urban refugees, there is startlingly limited research on the relationship between the …
Paul Flaig, ‘From the Tramp to Trump: On Sovereignty and Screen Comedy’, in William V. Costanzo, and Peter C. Kunze (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy, Oxford Handbooks (2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Aug. 2025) https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197675502.013.0026 Abstract In recent years, critics and scholars have anxiously observed that the subversive force of satire, jokes, …
Denise Mifsud, Richard Niesche (2025). Exploring the Lived Experiences of Two Scholars Researching Social (In)Justice in Educational Leadership Across Maltese and Australian Contexts. In: Bogotch, I., Shields, C.M. (eds) Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56275-4_121-1 Abstract This chapter highlights aspects of researching educational leadership …
Le Blanc, G. (2025). Let Live or Let Die: Stranger to the Nation. Translated by Kaitlin Sager. In: Elhariry, Y., Keller-Privat, I., Tamalet Talbayev, E. (eds) Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84043-2_9 Abstract This chapter explores Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics and its application to contemporary migration and refugee issues. …
Xenia Chiaramonte, Bio-story. Michel Foucault and the history of social medicine. In Eds. Marta-Laura Cenedese, Clio Nicastro, Violence, Care, Cure. Self/perceptions within the Medical Encounter, Routledge, 2025 Abstract In October 1974, Foucault gave three lectures in Rio de Janeiro on the archaeology of the cure. This piece will comment on the first two, published a …
Andrew, M. (2024). Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education. In: Rudolph, J., Crawford, J., Sam, CY., Tan, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54509-2_3 Abstract This chapter demonstrates how higher and vocational education have long faced and continue to face a more insidious crisis than COVID: …
Droz-Dit-Busset, O., Spilioti, T. “Getting personal with you” Affect and authenticity in confessional videos of YouTube lifestyle and beauty influencers (2024) Influencer DiscourseAffective relations and identities, Eds. Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company, pp. 278-302. DOI: 10.1075/pbns.349.11dro Abstract Since the Middle Ages, confession has been one of the ‘most highly valued techniques for …
Cudworth, E. Resisting Zoopolis: Bordering species relations as a response to COVID-19 (2024) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal, Edited By Josephine Browne, Zoei Sutton, Routledge, pp. 133-150. DOI: 10.4324/9781003257912-12 Abstract Human publics are now more aware than ever of the presence and threat of zoonotic …
Eberl, J.T., Bishop, J.P. Battlestar Galactica as Philosophy: Breaking the Biopolitical Cycle (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy Editors: David Kyle Johnson (Editor-in-Chief), Dean A. Kowalski, Chris Lay, Kimberly S. Engels, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 93-112. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24685-2_4 Abstract The reimagined Battlestar Galactica series (2003–2009) and its prequel series Caprica (2009–2010) provoked viewers …
Brake, M. The Joker as Philosopher: Killing Jokes (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy Editors: David Kyle Johnson (Editor-in-Chief), Dean A. Kowalski, Chris Lay, Kimberly S. Engels, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1987-2001. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24685-2_92 Abstract Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke is one of the most popular Batman comic stories, …
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