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 …
Quartermaine, A. The disposition of concern: an exploration into the affects of the power-knowledge dynamics uncovered during research into pupils’ perceptions of terrorism (2016) International Journal of Research and Method in Education, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2016.1186631 Abstract In recent years, counter-terrorism measures have become incorporated into the UK education system, with the …
Fredrik Sandberg, Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt, Maria Olson Adult Education as a Heterotopia of Deviation: A Dwelling for the Abnormal Citizen (2016) Adult Education Quarterly, 66 (2), pp. 103-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713615618447 Abstract We argue that municipal adult education (MAE) can be seen as a place for displaced and abnormal citizens to gain temporary stability, enabling their …
Brown, C. ‘Favourite places in school’ for lower-set ‘ability’ pupils: school groupings practices and children’s spatial orientations (2016) Children’s Geographies, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2016.1269154 Abstract This paper contributes to the recent turn within Children’s Geographies concerned with understanding and illuminating educational inequalities. The focus is upon pupils assigned to lower ‘ability’ groupings, …
Carl Death, Counter-conducts: A Foucauldian Analytics of Protest, Social Movement Studies Vol. 9 , Iss. 3, 2010 https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2010.493655 Abstract The influence of Foucault on studies of social movements, dissent and protest is not as direct as might be imagined. He is generally regarded as focusing more on the analysis of power and government than forms …
De Schauwer, E., Van de Putte, I., Blockmans, I.G.E., Davies, B. The intra-active production of normativity and difference (2016) Gender and Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1259463 Abstract Drawing on memory stories told in a collective biography workshop about children’s encounters with schooling, this paper experiments with re-imagining the child-student-subject as an ‘emergent …
