Brendon Murphy & Benedict Sheehy (2026). Chapter 7: Language games and corporate psychopaths. In Research Handbook on Corporate Psychopaths, pp. 102–117 . Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035326525.00013 Abstract This chapter explores psychopathic discourse in political and managerial communication, focusing on how language is used to manipulate, distract, and assert control through framing, labelling, and …
Indrajit Mukherjee, (2025). Performing the Otherness: Vodou/Voodoo as a Cultural Marker of Subaltern Resistance in Magical Realist Narratives. In: Bacon, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7_113-1 Abstract The Vodou/Voodoo exercises, often associated with the Aja, Ewe, Kongo, and Wolof people of the pre-colonial West African continent, refer to the …
David M. Halperin, Foucault’s Queer Critique, In The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies, ed. Melissa E. Sanchez, Routledge 2025. A preliminary version of this chapter can be found online here. First paragraphs (extract) Critique has fallen out of favor lately among exponents of queer theory as well as among participants in the recent debates …
Kurt Borg, (2026). Foucault and Business Ethics. In: Luetge, C., Thejls Ziegler, M. (eds) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6176-6_118-1 Abstract This chapter presents an overview of a range of analyses within business ethics which have been informed by the work of Michel Foucault. It considers work in business ethics …
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 …
Call for Abstracts: Intellect Handbook of Cinema and the Anthropocene H-Announce link We are pleased to announce a forthcoming edited volume, Intellect Handbook of Cinema and the Anthropocene. The volume will bring together original scholarship that examines the relationship between cinema and the Anthropocene from a variety of perspectives. It is intended as a resource …
Xinling Li, The Manufacturing of ‘Correct Collective Memory’ in Chinese Media and the Resistance of Chinese Netizens, In Rawnsley, M.-Y.T., Ma, Y., & Rawnsley, G.D. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362500 Abstract This chapter examines the concept of ‘correct collective memory’, articulated by China’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying during …
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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