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Archive: Eco-Governmentality (2015)

Clare O'Farrell

19 December 2019

Valdivia, Gabriela , “Eco-Governmentality” , in The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology ed. Tom Perreault , Gavin Bridge and James McCarthy (Abingdon: Routledge, 17 Jun 2015 ), accessed 19 Dec 2019 , Routledge Handbooks Online. Abstract “Eco-governmentality” is a Foucaultian-inspired power analytic that political ecologists use to examine nature–society relationships. Since its early days, political ecologists have used Marxist-inspired critique to explain environmental domination and oppression (Watts 1983; Blaikie and Brookfield 1987; …

Michel Foucault: Political Thought

Clare O'Farrell

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31 January 2015

Mark Kelly, Michel Foucault: Political Thought, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 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 these. …

Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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15 June 2013

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 …

Publishing, overview (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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11 May 2013

Fryer D., Duckett P.: Publishing, Overview. In: Teo T. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: SpringerReference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. Further info Introduction Within the discipline of psychology publishing is widely positioned as ‘a good thing’. Within the discourse currently dominant, publication in ‘peer reviewed’ journals (publication of and in books is less favoured in …

Foucault’s thought (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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20 April 2013

Clare O’Farrell, Foucault’s Thought, In Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Edited by Byron Kaldis. London: Sage, 2013 1200 pages Publisher’s page First paragraph of entry Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian of ideas who was born in Poitiers in France in 1926 and died in Paris in 1984. Since his death …

Michel Foucault: Ethics. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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10 October 2011

Bob Robinson, Michel Foucault: Ethics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) does not understand ethics as moral philosophy, the metaphysical and epistemological investigation of ethical concepts (metaethics) and the investigation of the criteria for evaluating actions (normative ethics), as Anglo-American philosophers do. Instead, he defines ethics as a relation …

Foucault, Oxford bibliographies online (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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2 August 2011

Gavin Kendall, Michel Foucault, Oxford bibliographies online The introduction and general overviews section of this is available for free. The rest needs to be purchased. Contents Introduction General Overviews Biographies Selected Major Works Lectures Interviews and Essays Bibliographies Journals Knowledge and Discourse Madness and Mental Illness Power and Punishment Sexuality Governmentality Subjectification and Techniques of …

Michel Foucault. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010)

Clare O'Farrell

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14 January 2011

Mark Kelly has written a new article on Michel Foucault for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.