Aquino, J.G. Two premises and one general hypothesis for the analysis of the educational present (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-9. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204733 Abstract Contemporary research in the field of Foucauldian studies on education have pointed to a growing imbrication between educational practises and neoliberal ideas. The problematization of such scenario …
Frank Pignatelli , “Ethical Leadership Development as Care of the Self: A Foucauldian Perspective,” Schools 12, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 198-213. DOI: 10.1086/683214 This essay addresses the care of the self as an important aspect in the development of educational leaders. It draws upon Michel Foucault’s analysis of power and its relationship to his understanding …
Angharad E. Beckett, Paul Bagguley & Tom Campbell, Foucault, social movements and heterotopic horizons: rupturing the order of things, Social Movement Studies, Pages 1-13 | Received 21 Jul 2015, Accepted 15 Jul 2016, Published online: 02 Nov 2016 doi: 10.1080/14742837.2016.1252666 In this article, we explore and develop the utility for social movement studies of Michel …
Silvio Gallo, The care of the self and biopolitics: Resistance and practices of freedom (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(7), 691–701. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204735 Abstract This text through the direct use to Foucault’s work and using the concepts of ‘care of the self’ and biopolitics is questioning and analyzing resistance and practices of freedom. Mainly, from the …
Nasir, M.A. Weighing Words: On the Governmentality of Free Speech (2016) Social and Legal Studies, 25 (1), pp. 69-92. DOI: 10.1177/0964663915586472 Abstract This article takes issue with those accounts of the right to freedom of expression that find a zero-sum game between power and freedom. It argues that by marking expression as a legal problematic, …
Hall, K. Selfies and Self-Writing: Writing: Cue Card Confessions as Social Media Technologies of the Self (2016) Television and New Media, 17 (3), pp. 228-242. DOI: 10.1177/1527476415591221 Abstract This article explores the aesthetic genealogy of the cue card confession social media trope, where producers create a self-portrait or vlog featuring handwritten cards to relate an …
Line Joranger, Individual perception and cultural development: Foucault’s 1954 Approach to Mental Illness and Its History (2016) History of Psychology, 19 (1), pp. 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000014 Abstract In his 1954 book Mental Illness and Personality Foucault combines the subjective experience of the mentally ill person with a sociocultural historical approach to mental illness and suggests that …
Christopher J. Cushion, Reflection and reflective practice discourses in coaching: a critical analysis (2016) Sport, Education and Society, 23(1), 82–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1142961 Abstract Reflection and reflective practice is seen as an established part of coaching and coach education practice. It has become a ‘taken-for-granted’ part of coaching that is accepted enthusiastically and unquestioningly, and is assumed …
Fathallah, J. Statements and silence: Fanfic paratexts for ASOIAF/Game of Thrones (2016) Continuum, 30 (1), pp. 75-88. DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2015.1099150 Abstract Today, most media authors acknowledge and to some degree integrate the user-generated content of their fandom. Some, however, still perform authoritarian positions of prohibition. George R. R. Martin, the creator of A Song of Ice …
Renkin, H.Z. Biopolitical mythologies: Róheim, Freud, (homo)phobia, and the sexual science of Eastern European Otherness (2016) Sexualities, 19 (1-2), pp. 168-189. DOI: 10.1177/1363460714550908 Abstract A vast body of research has, following Foucault, shown the scientific study of sexuality to be central to the construction of modernity and its Others, and to biopolitical categories of personhood …
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