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” …
Clapham, A., Vickers, R. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: exploring ‘teaching for mastery’ policy borrowing (2018) Oxford Review of Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1450745 Abstract Mathematics education is a high-stakes indicator of success in ‘über’ performative systems. The search to address England’s mathematics underperformance resulted in cross-national attraction toward, and …
Waller, C. ‘Darker than the Dungeon’: Music, Ambivalence, and the Carceral Subject (2018) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 31 (2), pp. 275-299. DOI: 10.1007/s11196-018-9558-9 Abstract Music’s sanctioned role in the day-to-day running of the ‘late-modern’ prison is to ensure wellbeing and compliance of prisoners, with most regimes facilitating access to music through the …
Mameni, S. What are the Iranians wishing for? Queer transnational solidarity in revolutionary Iran (2018) Signs, 43 (4), pp. 955-978. DOI: 10.1086/696628 Abstract This article explores the role of desire in Iran’s revolutionary movement. In a series of essays on the 1979 revolution, Michel Foucault asked, “What are the Iranians dreaming about?” This article takes …
