Catherine Manathunga, Mark Selkrig, Kirsten Sadler, and (Ron) Kim Keamy, Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university (2017) Higher Education Research and Development, 36 (3), pp. 526-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1289157 Abstract Measurement of academic work has become more significant than the intellectual, pedagogical, cultural, …
Fludernik, M. Panopticisms: From fantasy to metaphor to reality (2017) Textual Practice, 31 (1), pp. 1-26. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2016.1256675 Abstract Since Foucault’s popularisation of Bentham’s panopticon in Discipline and Punish, panopticism has become a master trope in literary criticism and inspired novelists to adopt panoptic scenarios in their work. This article follows the trajectory of the …
Rebecca Smith, The emergence of the quantified child (2017) Discourse, 38 (5), pp. 701-712. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1136269 Abstract Using document analysis, this paper examines the historical emergence of the quantified child, revealing how the collection and use of data has become normalized through legitimizing discourses. First, following in the traditions of Foucault’s genealogy and studies examining the …
Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Neoliberal and disciplinary environmentality and ‘sustainable seafood’ consumption: storying environmentally responsible action (2017) Environmental Education Research, 23 (8), pp. 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1105198 Abstract This article invokes a neoliberal and disciplinary governmentality lens in a political ecology of education framework to analyze educational programming at Long Beach, California’s Aquarium of the Pacific. I begin by …
Craig E. Stephenson, The possessions at Loudun: tracking the discourse of dissociation (2017) Journal of Analytical Psychology, 62 (4), pp. 544-566. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12336 Abstract Embedded in the history of dissociation is the best known case of possession in European history, the 17th century possessions at Loudun, France (1632-1638). The exorcisms and the trial drew crowds from …
Amber Hughes & Ron Laura, The contribution of Aboriginal epistemologies to mathematics education in Australia: Exploring the silences (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(4), 338–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1359782 Abstract Epistemology is a conceptual template for how we think about the world, and the study of how we come to know the world around us. The world does …
Luca Mavelli, Governing the resilience of neoliberalism through biopolitics (2017) European Journal of International Relations, 23 (3), pp. 489-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116676321 Abstract Neoliberalism is widely regarded as the main culprit for the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. However, despite this abysmal failure, neoliberalism has not merely survived the crisis, but actually ‘thrived’. How is it possible to …
Bert, J. (2017). Michel Foucault défenseur de l’ethnologie: « La magie – le fait social total », une leçon inédite des années 1950. Zilsel, 2,(2), 281-303. https://www.cairn.info/revue-zilsel-2017-2-page-281.htm. Premières lignes Les milliers de pages de notes manuscrites de Michel Foucault, conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), donnent à voir un auteur bien différent de …
Stahl, W. To err is human: Biography vs. biopolitics in Michel Foucault (2017) Contemporary Political Theory, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1057/s41296-017-0105-3 Abstract This article suggests a new approach to understanding the self-formation of subjectivity in the work of Michel Foucault that emphasizes the influence of his mentor, the philosopher and historian of science Georges …
Gore, J. M. Reconciling educational research traditions. The Australian Educational Researcher, (2017) 44:357–372 DOI 10.1007/s13384-017-0245-8 Abstract The field of educational research encompasses a vast array of paradigmatic and methodological perspectives. Arguably, this range has both expanded and limited our achievements in the name of educational research. In Australia, the ascendancy of certain research perspectives has …
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