Lesley Ellis, Through a filtered lens: unauthorized picture-taking of people with dwarfism in public spaces (2018) Disability and Society, 33 (2), pp. 218-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1392930 Abstract People with dwarfism often encounter discrimination in their daily interactions with strangers. Staring, harassment and infantilization are some of the behaviours they have reported to encounter. Through two qualitative research …
Scott Hamilton (2018). Foucault’s End of History: The Temporality of Governmentality and its End in the Anthropocene. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 46(3), 371-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818774892 Abstract Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality is widely used throughout the social sciences to analyse the state, liberalism, and individual subjectivity. Surprisingly, what remains ignored are the repeated claims made …
Burchardt, M. Governing religious identities: law and legibility in neoliberalism (2018) Religion, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2018.1482611 Abstract This article explores from a Foucauldian perspective how, in the neoliberal age, religious diversity has become a new form of governmentality that is based on practices of classifying and categorizing people according to religious criteria. …
The 25th issue of Foucault Studies, Foucault and Philosophical Practice, has now been published. (September 2018) The journal is open source. The issue amounts to no less than 23 contributions and a sum total of more than 400 pages. In addition to the special issue on “Foucault and Philosophical Practice”, comprising four articles with a …
Ingrey, J. Problematizing the cisgendering of school washroom space: interrogating the politics of recognition of transgender and gender non-conforming youth (2018) Gender and Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1483492 Abstract This paper examines how transgender and gender non-conforming youth are represented and shaped as specific subjects vis-à-vis the cisgendered problematics of the washroom …
Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil, Carceral Notebooks, vol. 13, 2017 An ensemble of articles written by Brazilian intellectuals on Foucault, especially on his travels to Brazil Open access Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da Fonseca, Power and Resistance: Foucault’s Laboratory in Brazil …
Stephen Legg, (2018). Subjects of truth: Resisting governmentality in Foucault’s 1980s. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, First Published September 25, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818801957 See also Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s Abstract Responding to ongoing concerns that Michel Foucault’s influential governmentality analytics fail to enable the study of ‘resistance’, this paper …
Elliott, B. Work, culture, and play in the neoliberal condition (2018) Information Communication and Society, 21 (9), pp. 1279-1292. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1476568 Abstract Foucault’s [2008. The birth of biopolitics: Lectures at the collège de France 1978–1979. New York, NY: Picador] lectures on neoliberalism present a powerful challenge to the Marxist critique of capitalist work as alienating …
Gandy, O.H., Jr., Nemorin, S. Toward a political economy of nudge: smart city variations (2018) Information Communication and Society, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1477969 Abstract Transformations in strategies of governmentality have been implemented around the globe through behavioral interventions characterized as ‘nudges.’ This article will focus on the implementation of these practices within …
Valentim, I.V.L. Between Academic Pimping and Moral Harassment in Higher Education: an Autoethnography in a Brazilian Public University (2018) Journal of Academic Ethics, 16 (2), pp. 151-171. DOI: 10.1007/s10805-018-9300-y Abstract It is shocking to notice that universities still research few of what daily happens inside their walls. Even though knowledge amount to just a small …
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