Palacios, C. Freedom can also be productive: the historical inversions of ‘the conduct of conduct’ (2018) Journal of Political Power, 11 (2), pp. 252-272. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1478641 Abstract The Foucauldian conception of power as ‘productive’ has left us so far with a residual conception of freedom. The article examines a number of historical cases in which …
Lilja, M., Vinthagen, S. Dispersed resistance: unpacking the spectrum and properties of glaring and everyday resistance (2018) Journal of Political Power, 11 (2), pp. 211-229. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1478642 Abstract Revisiting James C. Scott’s classification of forms of resistance, this paper argues that (hidden, subtle) everyday resistance is only one of many types of small-scale or individual …
Sean R. Roberts,The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs (2018) Critical Asian Studies, 50 (2), pp. 232-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 Abstract This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist threat from this …
Kannisto, P. Travelling like locals: Market resistance in long-term travel (2018) Tourism Management, 67, pp. 297-306. DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2018.02.009 Abstract Market resistance has been studied in relation to ecological and ethical tourism, while lifestyle-based resistance has received less attention. This study examines a group of long-term travellers, the ‘global nomads’ who avoid the tourism industry by …
Mayes, E. Student voice in an age of ‘security’? (2018) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2018.1455721 Abstract As student voice has become popularised as a school reform strategy, it has been critiqued as another instrumental strategy that schools may use to govern students’ speech, bodies and subjectivities. What necessitates further …
Matthew MacLellan, “Indigenous Infopolitics: Biopolitics as Resistance to White Paper Liberalism in Canada.” Theory and Event, vol. 21, no. 4 (2018): 914-936. Abstract This article argues for a reading of biopolitics as a mechanism of political empowerment under conditions in which the state perpetuates exclusion by paradoxically affirming the political equality of marginalized individuals or …
Black Hawk Hancock, Michel Foucault and the Problematics of Power: Theorizing DTCA and Medicalized Subjectivity, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 43, Issue 4, 9 July 2018, Pages 439–468. DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhy010 Abstract This article explores Foucault’s two different notions of power: one where the subject is …
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. …
