Verena Lenneis and Gertrud Pfister, Health messages, middle-aged women and the pleasure of play (2016) Annals of Leisure Research, 20(1), 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2016.1207091 Abstract Western societies glorify youth and consider middle age as the onset of deterioration. The prevalent discourses on middle-aged women focus primarily on negative developments in their lives such as increased health risks …
History and Theory: Special Issue: Words, Things, and Beyond: Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: FOUCAULT’S LES MOTS ET LES CHOSES AT 50 (pages 3–6) PETER E. GORDON PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN FOUCAULT’S “INTRODUCTION TO BINSWANGER’S DREAM AND EXISTENCE“: A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE ORDER OF THINGS? (pages 7–22) BÉATRICE HAN-PILE …
Nancy Partner, Foucault’s iconic afterlife: The posthumous reach of words and things, History & Theory Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 35–53 https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.10827 ABSTRACT The lasting influence of Michel Foucault’s work is both instantly recognizable in that his very name can be invoked as a noun or adjective (“Foucauldian”), as a critical stance or …
Fabienne de Bilbao, Paola Bonavitacola, The abuses of a certain knowledge, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, First published: 5 April 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12493 Abstract In the psychiatric institution, the sex act is a matter of controversy, all the more so when elderly patients with dementia are concerned. Yet, a question imposes itself: thinking beyond the biomedical …
Lefebvre, A. The Rights of Man and the Care of the Self (2016) Political Theory, 44 (4), pp. 518-540. DOI: 10.1177/0090591714556355 Abstract In this article, I claim that Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke both conceive of the rights of man as a medium for individuals to care for and cultivate the self. Beginning with Michel …
Uggla, Y., Lidskog, R. Climate risks and forest practices: forest owners’ acceptance of advice concerning climate change (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 31 (6), pp. 618-625. DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2015.1134648 Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with Swedish forest owners this study focuses on climate change, risk management and forest governance from the perspective of the forest …
Ravinder Sidhu, Navigating unfreedoms & re-imagining ethical counter-conducts: Caring about refugees & asylum seekers, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Pages 1-12 | Published online: 05 Oct 2016 10.1080/00131857.2016.1225558 Abstract This article uses Foucault’s concept of the care of the self to interrogate the accounts of ethical agency provided by professionals involved in the settlement of refugees, …
Silcock, M., Payne, D., Hocking, C. Governmentality within Children’s Technological Play: Findings from a Critical Discourse Analysis (2016) Children and Society, 30 (2), pp. 85-95. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12123 Abstract In many countries today, digital technology and instant communication are embedded in children’s everyday lives to the extent that their play frequently incorporates smartphones, the Internet and …
Roger Foster, The therapeutic spirit of neoliberalism (2016) Political Theory, 44 (1), pp. 82-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591715594660 Abstract My essay argues that neoliberal forms of government emerged through the shifting political trajectory of the therapeutic ethos in the postwar period in Anglo-American societies. In the postwar era, the therapeutic ethos attracted the attention of conservative cultural critics …
Christopher Worthman & Beverly Troiano (2016): A good student subject: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of an adolescent writer negotiating subject positions, Critical Studies in Education Published online: 24 Oct 2016 DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1246372 ABSTRACT In this article, we draw on the work of Michel Foucault to analyze one student’s subject development in an expository writing classroom. …
