Damien Page, The surveillance of teachers and the simulation of teaching, Journal Of Education Policy Vol. 32 , Iss. 1, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1209566 Full text Abstract Just as surveillance in general has become more sophisticated, penetrative and ubiquitous, so has the surveillance of teachers. Enacted through an assemblage of strategies such as learning walks, parental networks, …
Bazzul, J. The ‘subject of ethics’ and educational research OR Ethics or politics? Yes please! (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-11. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1270184 Abstract This paper outlines a theoretical context for research into ‘the subject of ethics’ in terms of how students come to see themselves as self-reflective actors. I maintain …
Chang-Kredl, S., Wilkie, G. What is it like to be a child? Childhood subjectivity and teacher memories as heterotopia (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 308-320. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168262 Abstract Foucault’s notion of heterotopia offers a novel way to understand teachers’ conceptualizations of childhood, in juxtaposing adult memories of childhood with their present context of teaching …
Hull, G. Equitable relief as a relay between juridical and biopower: the case of school desegregation (2016) Continental Philosophy Review, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11007-016-9372-6 Abstract The present paper looks at the intersection of juridical and biopower in the U.S. Supreme Court’s school desegregation cases. These cases generally deploy “equitable relief” as a …
Ragab, A. Monsters and patients: An archaeology of medicine, islam, and modernity (2016) History and Theory, 55 (4), pp. 112-130. DOI: 10.1111/hith.10832 Abstract Foucault’s analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters …
Fejes, A. The confessing academic and living the present otherwise: Appraisal interviews and logbooks in academia (2016) European Educational Research Journal, 15 (4), pp. 395-409. DOI: 10.1177/1474904116636637 Abstract In this paper, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, I argue that academics are enmeshed in power relations in which confession operates, both on and through …
Visser, L.M., Bleijenbergh, I.L., Benschop, Y.W.M., Van Riel, A.C.R., Bloem, B.R. Do online communities change power processes in healthcare? Using case studies to examine the use of online health communities by patients with Parkinson’s disease (2016) BMJ Open, 6 (11), art. no. e012110, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012110 Abstract Objective: Communication technologies, such as personal online health communities, …
Sabrina Smith and Matthew Atencio, “Yoga is yoga. Yoga is everywhere. You either practice or you don’t”: a qualitative examination of yoga social dynamics (2017) Sport in Society, 20(9), 1167–1184. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1269082 Abstract Within the context of yoga’s increasing popularity, the prevailing view that yoga is ‘good for everyone’ is often perpetuated by participants. This view …
Springer RA, Clinton ME. Doing Foucault: inquiring into nursing knowledge with Foucauldian discourse analysis. Nursing Philosophy. 2015 Apr;16(2):87-97 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12079 Abstract Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) is a methodology that is well suited to inquiring into nursing knowledge and its organization. It is a critical analytic approach derived from Foucault’s histories of science, madness, medicine, incarceration …
Borovoy, A. Japan’s Public Health Paradigm: Governmentality and the Containment of Harmful Behavior (2017) Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 36 (1), pp. 32-46. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2016.1148033 Abstract In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and …
