Nieuwenhuis, M. Atmospheric governance: Gassing as law for the protection and killing of life (2018) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36 (1), pp. 78-95. DOI: 10.1177/0263775817729378 Abstract Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. …
Dowd, G. Regimes of language and light in J. S. Le Fanu’s ‘Green Tea’ (2018) Textual Practice, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1426037 Abstract While positioning and contextualising the short story ‘Green Tea’ by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) in relation to existing Le Fanu scholarship, this article seeks to explore further the textual …
Lindh, K. The construction of lay rescuers in bystander CPR classes (2018) Library Trends, 66 (3), pp. 315-328. DOI: 10.1353/lib.2018.0005 Abstract There are many situations in society and life in which the body is expected to play an important role for the acquisition of particular skills. This article reports on a study of such a …
Patrick Gamez, Did Foucault do Ethics? The “Ethical Turn,” Neoliberalism, and the Problem of Truth, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy – Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol XXVI, No 1 (2018) pp 107-133 https://doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2018.818 Abstract This paper argues against a common misunderstanding of Foucault’s work. Even after the release of …
Gormley, K. Neoliberalism and the discursive construction of ‘creativity’ (2018) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2018.1459762 Abstract This paper resists normative definitions of ‘creativity’ to argue that the concept is constructed by neoliberal discourses in education policy. The analysis is firstly centred on the Australian context, and this is further …
McGlashan, H., Fitzpatrick, K. ‘I use any pronouns, and I’m questioning everything else’: transgender youth and the issue of gender pronouns (2018) Sex Education, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2017.1419949 Abstract The nature of sex/ualities, genders and schooling has changed considerably over the last 20 years, with global political, social and cultural shifts bringing …
Nedim Karakayali, Burc Kostem, and Idil Galip, Recommendation Systems as Technologies of the Self: Algorithmic Control and the Formation of Music Taste (2018) Theory, Culture and Society, 35 (2), pp. 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417722391 Abstract The article brings to light the use of recommender systems as technologies of the self, complementing the observations in current literature regarding …
Matthews, J. Occupation as refrain: territory and beyond in Occupy London (2018) Social Movement Studies, 17 (2), pp. 127-143. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2018.1427056 Abstract Emerging with the wider ‘movements of the squares’ of 2011, Occupy London was defined by occupation, and by participants’ negotiation of what occupation meant. Its forms and meanings changed as London’s Occupiers moved …
Erol, A.E. Queer contestation of neoliberal and heteronormative moral geographies during #occupygezi (2018) Sexualities, 21 (3), pp. 428-445. DOI: 10.1177/1363460717699768 Abstract During the summer of 2013, Turkey witnessed the largest protest movement in the history of the republic. The protests began with environmentalist concerns to save a public park in central Istanbul, Gezi Park, from …
Palacios, C. Society, like the market, needs to be constructed: Foucault’s critical project at the dawn of neoliberalism (2018) History of the Human Sciences, 31(1), pp. 74-96. DOI: 10.1177/0952695117746045 Abstract It has been commonplace to equate Foucault’s 1979 series of lectures at the Collège de France with the claim that for neoliberalism, unlike for classical …
