Bhandaru, Deepa. “Biopolitical Color Lines Foucault and an Anti-Racist Democratic Politics” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, 2011-03-12 Abstract This paper asks how Foucault’s analysis of race and racism might render a different reading of “the problem of the color line,” and explores …
Strausz, Erzsebet. “Foucault, Critique and Security/Studies” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Annual Conference “Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition”, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, Mar 16, 2011 . 2011-01-25 Abstract: This paper investigates the implications of a Foucauldian perspective for interrogating both practices of security and …
Inhabiting Institutions in Britain, 1700-1950 A two-day conference of the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London, in London on 14 and 15 September 2010 This conference has been recorded and is available as a series of podcasts This two-year research project examines the impact of the design, decoration and furnishing of nineteenth-century residential …
Frank Welz, ‘Lost in Agency? Kant, Foucault and the Task of Sociology’ Paper delivered at the Social Agency. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of the 21st Century Humanist Sociology Conference, Wrocław, Poland, on 20-22 October 2010 Abstract No sociology without agency: Without the discovery of social agency there would not be any sociology. (1) If anything …
Macmillan, Alexandre. “Foucault’s “Materiality of the Incorporeal” and Communication in Modern Society” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Suntec Singapore International Convention, Exhibition Centre, Suntec City, Singapore, Jun 22, 2010 Abstract The ontological status of communication and its material/immaterial nature is one of the most important questions for a philosophical …
Michelle Brady, ‘What ethnography contributes to studies of governmentality’. Paper presented at the 11th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, October 2010, October 7-8 2010. Published as Brady, M. (2011) Researching governmentalities through ethnography: the case of Australian welfare reforms and programs for single parents Critical Policy Studies. Vol 5. No. 3. October. pp.265-283 Abstract In …
Wong, James, The Care of the Self: Possibilities for Associative Politics (2010). APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. Update August 2025. Link no longer available Abstract Foucault’s late work, in particular his research on practices of the ‘care of the self’ has been seen by some authors as a possible resource for democratic theory (Connolly, Simons). …
Gaines, Stephen. and Lepadatu, Darina. “Revisiting Michel Foucault and His Contributions to Social Theory”, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA, Aug 13, 2010 Update: August 2025. Link no longer available Abstract Under the method of genealogical study and philosophical analysis, …
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