McKeown, A., Glenn, J. The rise of resilience after the financial crises: A case of neoliberalism rebooted? (2018) Review of International Studies, 44 (2), pp. 193-214. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210517000493 Abstract This article critically examines recent works on resilience. In so doing, it argues that rather than representing some radical rupture with current practices heralding the dawn …
Charlier, J.-É., Panait, O.M. Resistances to global educational prescriptions in the Global South: theoretical considerations through Michel Foucault’s lenses (2018) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (3), pp. 348-364. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1351865 Abstract This article proposes an inquiry into Foucault’s approach of subjectivation, extending it to the institutional actors and individual subjects in the educational …
Machado, E.V. Hyperidentity and orientalism: The case of the sieges of diu in Portuguese texts (2018) South Asian Studies, 34 (1), pp. 6-16. DOI: 10.1080/02666030.2018.1440056 Abstract The Portuguese representations of the sieges of Diu have been produced over the span of five centuries. My main argument is that, in these texts, Diu served as a …
Brown, C., Carr, S. Education policy and mental weakness: a response to a mental health crisis (2018) Journal of Education Policy, pp. 1-25. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2018.1445293 Abstract Educationalists have been concerned with the labelling and treatment of children with mental health difficulties in the education system in England for some time. These concerns …
Hewson, D. Pregnant with risk: biopolitics, neoliberalism and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum (2018) Irish Political Studies, pp. 1-20. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2018.1445999 Abstract This article augments and elaborates on existing research conducted on the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum by outlining the role played by neoliberal rationalities in shaping discourses crucial to initiating the …
Anderson, A. Toward a genealogy of the liberal government of youth (2018) Journal of Youth Studies, 21 (4), pp. 461-477. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2017.1394993 Abstract While discourses that define and demarcate young people such that they become legitimate targets of negative practices of marginalisation and exclusion have not disappeared, these are no longer the dominant discourses and …
Bailey, A.J., Drbohlav, D., Salukvadze, J. Migration and pastoral power through life course: Evidence from Georgia (2018) Geoforum, 91, pp. 97-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.023 Abstract This article advances critical migration theory by exploring how pastoral power works through relational life courses. Extending governmentality accounts, we posit and trace the circulation of use, exchange, and surplus values …
Dashtipour, P., Rumens, N. Entrepreneurship, incongruence and affect: Drawing insights from a Swedish anti-racist organisation (2018) Organization, 25 (2), pp. 223-241. DOI: 10.1177/1350508417720022 Abstract In recent years, entrepreneurship has been reconceptualised as social change. Understood as such, entrepreneurship can be viewed to disrupt and disturb the social order. We argue in this article that Foucault’s …
Lida Maxwell, The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia. Contemporary Political Theory 18, 22–42 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0224-5 Abstract This essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political predicament: of having to …
Leask, I. Was there a theological turn in phenomenology? (2018) Philosophy Today, 62 (1), pp. 149-162. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday201837205 Abstract This article examines the possibility that phenomenology was “always already” a theological enterprise, by outlining some of the foundational criticisms levelled by Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser. For both thinkers, the phenomenological stress on “lived experience” …
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