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 …
Ahlqvist, T. Dynamic elements in regional development: an explorative genealogical analysis of the region of Southwest Finland (2018) European Planning Studies, 26 (12), pp. 2427-2447. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1530198 Abstract The paper suggests an explorative interpretative approach for conceptualizing regional change based on Foucault’s theory of genealogy. The theoretical outline is built on two key concepts of …
Vinge, H. Farmland conversion to fight climate change? Resource hierarchies, discursive power and ulterior motives in land use politics (2018) Journal of Rural Studies, 64, pp. 20-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.10.002 Abstract In December 2013, local politicians celebrated with a champagne toast as the municipality of Trondheim received permission from the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation …
Christian William Callaghan, Critical perspectives on international pharmaceutical innovation: Malthus, Foucault and resistance (2019) Critical Perspectives on International Business, 15 (1), pp. 68-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2017-0078 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to argue that certain insights offered by Kuhn and Foucault may be of use to those seeking to resist a global paradigm of inequality in access …
Bresnihan, P. Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans: Governmentality and the biopolitics of ‘improvement’ in the Irish and European fisheries (2019) Environment and Planning A, 51 (1), pp. 156-177. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18803110 Abstract Foucault’s account of the emergence of biopolitics in the late 18th century helps frame the political economy of ‘improvements’ as an environmental project linked …
Pier Luigi Sacco, Sendy Ghirardi, Maria Tartari, Marianna Trimarchi, Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes (2019) Cities, 89, pp. 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.013 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to take part in the debate about power relationships in contemporary cities between the agents of urban renewal and …
Ofer Parchev, Biopower, Sadomasochism, and Pastoral Power: Acceptance via Transgression (2019) Sexuality and Culture, 23 (1), pp. 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9563-x Abstract The transposition of biopower from the state to the individual has been a major preoccupation of biopower scholarship in recent decades. While some researchers have found grounds for optimism in the diminution of state control …
Feldman, A.J. Power, labour power and productive force in Foucault’s reading of capital (2019) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45 (3), pp. 307-333. DOI: 10.1177/0191453718798416 Abstract This article uses Foucault’s lecture courses to illuminate his reading of Marx’s Capital in Discipline and Punish. Foucault finds in Marx’s account of cooperation a precedent for his own approach …
Norbert Schaffeld, A Fictionalized Representation of Scientific Counter-Discourse: Jo Lendle’s Historical Science Novel Alles Land (2011) (2019) German Quarterly, 92 (1), pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12093 Abstract This paper explores a fictionalized series of past events in which a process of scientific discovery clearly contradicts the dominant academic discourse and is therefore bound to meet with powerful …
Deborah N. Brewis, Duality and Fallibility in Practices of the Self: The ‘inclusive subject’ in diversity training (2019) Organization Studies, 40 (1), pp. 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618765554 Abstract The concept of ‘inclusion’ has been gaining ground in a field known as equality and diversity work. Scholars have begun to both theorise what this concept means as a …
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