Iara Vigo de Lima, Foucault’s Archaeology of Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century, having strongly influenced a large number of disciplines. He has played a fundamental role in the construction of new ways of thinking and radical changes in the …
Sarah Wilson, The Visual World of French Theory. Yale: Yale Univeristy Press, Figurations, 2010. For further details see publisher’s site. Description This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s—Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them—and the artists of their times, most particularly …
Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Security: Biopolitics, security and risk, London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-58343-5 Description Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security …
A review by Thosaeng Chaochuti which appears on the New Mandala blog draws attention to a chapter on the uptake of Foucault in Thailand. Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, eds., The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand, with a foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Hong Kong and Ithaca: Hong …
Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending, Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2010 About the Book What does globalization mean for the principle of state sovereignty and for the power and functioning of states? Whereas realists assert the continued importance of states, constructivists contend that various political entities …
Book published in 2013 Omar Moufakkir, Yvette Reisinger, The host gaze in global tourism Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists’ perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, ‘The Tourist Gaze’, which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is a unique book for researchers and students as …
Foucault News 