Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball (eds), Neoliberalism and Education, Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means …
Carol Carpenter, Power in Conservation. Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern …
Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi, Debating Biopolitics. New Perspectives on the Government of Life. Edward Elgar, 2022 Emerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics …
Nancy Ettlinger, Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought. Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice, Routledge, 2023 Book Description This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic …
Johan Wennström, The soul of Swedes, On the contested state of Swedish cultural identity, The Critic, 8 February, 2023 n the late 1950s, French philosopher Michel Foucault spent three years as a researcher in the Swedish university town of Uppsala. The encounter between Foucault and Sweden seems to have been an unhappy one, perhaps inspiring …
Gilberto Conde, Fluid Modernity. The Politics of Water in the Middle East, Routledge, 2023 Book Description Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, …
Daniel Defert, Une vie politique. Entretiens avec Philippe Artières et Éric Favereau. Seuil, 2014 En 1984, le sida entre tragiquement dans la vie de Daniel Defert avec la mort de Michel Foucault. En hommage à celui qui fut son compagnon de vie pendant près de vingt-cinq ans, le sociologue crée Aides, la première association française …
Didier Fassin : « Une surveillance s’exerce sur la recherche » (2023), L’Humanité, 3 Février 2023, Latifa Madani Dans son dernier livre, La Recherche à l’épreuve du politique, l’anthropologue et sociologue alerte sur les dangers auxquels s’exposent les chercheurs et plaide pour la liberté du champ des savoirs. La recherche est une épreuve à risques. …
Michelle Perrot, Punir et comprendre. Entretiens avec Frédéric Chauvaud, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023. Les éditions PUR proposent d’en découvrir les premières pages Ce livre d’entretiens revient sur un itinéraire et des chantiers ouverts dès les années 1970. Il restitue les rencontres, les échanges et les travaux menés avec Michel Foucault ou Robert Badinter. Cette …
Rehberg, Andrea and Woodward, Ashley. Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688436 About this book The question of Nietzsche’s use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The contributors of this book re-situate debates around the notion of difference, in relation to historical and scholarly concerns, but with …
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