Paul Michael Garrett, Revisiting ‘The birth of biopolitics’: Foucault’s account of neoliberalism and the remaking of social policy (2019) Journal of Social Policy, 48 (3), pp. 469-487. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279418000582 Abstract The article charts the history and trajectory of neoliberalism provided in Foucault’s 1979 lectures on ‘The Birth of Biopolitics’. In these fascinating contributions, first published …
Pratt, N., Alderton, J. Producing assessment truths: a Foucauldian analysis of teachers’ reorganisation of levels in English primary schools (2019) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40 (5), pp. 581-597. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2018.1561245 Abstract This article considers a recent policy initiative in assessment in English primary schools (ages 5–11 years) in which curriculum ‘levels’ used by …
Joe Hanley, The ‘quality’ of social work students in England: a genealogy of discourse 2002–18. Critical and Radical Social Work, online: August 23, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1332/204986019X15567132118821 Open access Abstract Students entering university-based social work qualifying education are increasingly constructed in policy as lacking in quality. This article presents a genealogy of discourse examining major reports and …
Siffrinn, N.E., McGovern, K.R. Expanding youth participatory action research: a Foucauldian take on youth identities (2019) International Multilingual Research Journal, 13 (3), pp. 168-180. DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2019.1623636 Abstract This paper explores the identity construction of multilingual and multidialectal middle school students in a semester-long youth participatory action research (YPAR) project. In particular, it moves beyond an …
Gassner, G. Thinking against Heritage: speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London (2019) Journal of Urbanism, 12 (3), pp. 279-295. DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2019.1576757 Abstract What does a political conceptualisation of the relationship between urban development and heritage involve? Against the widespread idea that there is a conflict between densification and the protection of …
Barnett, N.J., Griggs, S., Howarth, D. Whatever Happened to Councillors? Problematising the Deficiency Narrative in English Local Politics (2019) Political Studies, 67 (3), pp. 775-794. DOI: 10.1177/0032321718807379 Abstract Calls for councillors to change are nothing new, even from staunch defenders of local democracy. But one critical question has been sidestepped: Why have councillors been persistently …
Brookfield, K. Studentified areas as contested heterotopias: Findings from Southampton (2019) Area, 51 (2), pp. 350-359. DOI: 10.1111/area.12458 Abstract The ongoing “massification” of higher education in the UK has generated increased demand for student housing. Some of this demand is being met by new, purpose-built student accommodation, but much is being met through an intensification …
Daniel Verginelli Galantin, A dimensão literária da genealogia em Foucault, Kriterion. Revista de Filosofia, v. 60, n. 143 (2019) Open Access PDF Resumo Neste artigo propomos estabelecer uma comparação entre escritos de Foucault sobre a literatura, notadamente seu livro “Raymond Roussel”, e textos que se consagraram pela fortuna crítica enquanto fundadores da genealogia, especificamente “Nietzsche, …
Eric Sarmiento, Catharina Landström, Sarah Whatmore, Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro-citizenship: Drought management and water governance in England (2019) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44 (2), pp. 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12288 Abstract In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” …
CALL FOR PAPERS Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts Issue 21 Political Matters: Spatial Thinking on the Alternative Theme Editors: Farzaneh Haghighi (University of Auckland) & Nikolina Bobic (University of Plymouth) Deadline for paper submission: 9th December 2019 – 5:00pm (NZST) https://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/announcement POLITICAL MATTERS: SPATIAL THINKING OF THE ALTERNATIVE At a time when the Western political climate is …
