Voase, R. Holidays under the hegemony of hyper-connectivity: getting away, but unable to escape? (2018) Leisure Studies, pp. 1-12. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2018.1475503 Abstract Holidays have been imagined as occasions of escape and liminal leisure. This conceptualisation requires re-evaluation as a consequence of the widespread adoption of portable communication devices (smartphones) and the use …
Guy, S., Muchtar, O., Ronel, N. How Can Governmental Positive Power Decrease Violence in Crime-Oriented Arenas? The Case of English Football (2018) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62 (8), pp. 2488-2504. DOI: 10.1177/0306624X17694375 Abstract This article will survey the dramatic change English football had undergone since the end of the last century. …
Kabgani, S., Zargarian, A., Clarke, M. The morbid dance of ideology on the scaffold: On subjectivity and capital punishment in Iran (2018) Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1057/s41282-018-0083-2 Abstract In this paper we examine the discursive structures adopted by the Iranian state in the context of public execution. Specifically, we …
Holloway, J., Keddie, A. ‘Make money, get money’: how two autonomous schools have commercialised their services (2018) Discourse, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2018.1451305 Abstract Using the stories of two autonomous public schools in Australia, this paper demonstrates how commercialisation can simultaneously position schools as both consumer and for-profit producer. Drawing on Foucault’s articulation …
Powell, D. Governing the (un)healthy child-consumer in the age of the childhood obesity crisis (2018) Sport, Education and Society, 23 (4), pp. 297-310. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1192530 Abstract In recent years, multinational food and drink corporations and their marketing practices have been blamed for the global childhood obesity ‘crisis’. Unsurprisingly, these corporations have been quick to refute …
Special issue on Foucault in Iran Iran Namag Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2018 English Verso Foucault and Iran Reconsidered: Revolt, Religion, and Neoliberalism Michiel Leezenberg French Secular Thought: Foucault and Political Spirituality Brian Turner Risking Prophecy in the Modern State: Foucault, Iran, and the Conduct of the Corey McCall Foucault and Epicureanism of the …
Pourya Asl, M. Fabrication of a desired truth: the oblivion of a Naxalite woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (2018) Asian Ethnicity, 19 (3), pp. 383-401. DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2018.1429892 Abstract Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (2013) explores effects of the 1967 Communist Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal India. Irrespective of the glowing reviews the author earned for …
Foth, T., & Holmes, D. (2018). Governing through lifestyle—Lalonde and the biopolitical management of public health in Canada. Nursing Philosophy, 0(0), e12222. doi:10.1111/nup.12222 “In 1974, the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau released a “green paper” known as the Lalonde Report, after the health minister at that time. The report formulated perspectives on health and the …
Rushton, C., Edvardsson, D. Reconciling conceptualizations of ethical conduct and person-centred care of older people with cognitive impairment in acute care settings (2018) Nursing Philosophy, 19 (2), art. no. e12190, . DOI: 10.1111/nup.12190 Abstract Key commentators on person-centred care have described it as a “new ethic of care” which they link inextricably to notions of …
Hickey, C., Mooney, A. Challenging the pervasiveness of hypermasculinity and heteronormativity in an all-boys’ school (2018) Australian Educational Researcher, 45 (2), pp. 237-253. DOI: 10.1007/s13384-017-0249-4 Abstract There is a rich, albeit chequered, history around single-sex schooling providing an educational option for nurturing the particular educational interests and needs of boys. While all-boys’ schools continue to …
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