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News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Marlon Salomon, “Eso no es un libro de historia”: Michel Foucault y la publicación de documentos de archivos, Topoi (Rio de Janeiro). vol.20 no.40 Rio de Janeiro Jan./Apr. 2019 DOI: 10.1590/2237-101×020040011 Open access RESUMO Entre 1973 e 1982, Michel Foucault dedicou-se à publicação de documentos de arquivo. Em 1973, publicou o memorial de Rivière; em …

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Petri, O. Discipline and Discretionary Power in Policing Homosexuality in Late Imperial St. Petersburg (2019) Journal of Homosexuality, 66 (7), pp. 937-969. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2018.1485302 Abstract This article explores queer sexual policing in late Imperial St. Petersburg (c.1900–1917). The focus is on the street-level constables who bore the principal responsibility for policing male homosexual offenses in …

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Special Issue: Biopolítica, segurización y gubernamentalidad, Revista Mexicana De Análisis Político Y Administración Pública, Vol. 7, núm. 2 (2018) Open access Tabla de contenidos Índice Índice PDF 1-2 Presentación Presentación PDF José de Jesús Ramírez Macias, Cuauhtémoc N. Hernández Martínez 3-10 Autor invitado La frontera incorporada: espacio, cuerpo y seguridad PDF Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo 13-32 …

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M. Habib Qazi, Saeeda Shah, Discursive construction of Pakistan’s national identity through curriculum textbook discourses in a Pakistani school in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (2019) British Educational Research Journal, 45 (2), pp. 275-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3496 Abstract This study investigates Pakistan’s secondary school children’s constructions of their national identity in a Pakistani school in Dubai by …

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Behrendt, S. This Is Not an Improvisation: Letitia Landon and the Slipperiness of Taxonomy (2019) European Legacy, 24 (3-4), pp. 283-300. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2018.1562667 Abstract Writing in 2007, in The Wordsworth Circle, Jeffrey Robinson remarked on the “ephemerality” of improvisational poetry, its fundamental resistance to being “preserved.” Printed poetry is typically regarded as “fixed” and static: …

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Mitchell Dean, What is Economic Theology? A New Governmental-Political Paradigm? (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (3), pp. 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418787622 Abstract Countering claims of its impossibility, this paper argues for economic theology as an intelligible figure of contemporary political rationality and organization, and a distinctive analytical strategy in relation to forms of liberal and neoliberal …

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Clare Butler, Working the ‘wise’ in speech and language therapy: Evidence-based practice, biopolitics and ‘pastoral labour’ (2019) Social Science and Medicine, 230, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.038 Abstract This paper examines how power and knowledge are involved in the workings of speech and language therapy and in the work of speech and language therapists (SLTs). The paper …

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Ostrowicka, H., Stankiewicz, Ł. The truths of business and the lies of academia: the order of discourse on higher education in Poland (2019) Higher Education Research and Development, 38 (3), pp. 609-622. DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1545746 Abstract This article presents the results of an analysis of hierarchization strategies in public debate over unemployment among university graduates. The …

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Miller, E.R., Gkonou, C. Language teacher agency, emotion labor and emotional rewards in tertiary-level English language programs (2018) System, 79, pp. 49-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2018.03.002 Abstract Research on language teacher agency and language teacher emotions has demonstrated that both are central components of teacher identity and practice. However, few researchers have explored the co-constitutive effects of …

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Danielle Ringer, Courtney Carothers, Rachel Donkersloot, Jesse Coleman, Paula Cullenberg,For generations to come? The privatization paradigm and shifting social baselines in Kodiak, Alaska’s commercial fisheries (2018) Marine Policy, 98, pp. 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.009 Abstract This paper presents results from a study that explored a key threat to fisheries sustainability in Alaska – the graying of the …

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