Corinne Weisgerber, Shannan H. Butler, Curating the Soul: Foucault’s concept of hupomnemata and the digital technology of self-care (2016) Information Communication and Society, 19 (10), pp. 1340-1355. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1088882 Abstract This paper explores how online actions such as the practice of digital self-writing shape our offline identity. We start with an examination of the concept of …
Thörn, H. Politics of responsibility: governing distant populations through civil society in Mozambique, Rwanda and South Africa (2016) Third World Quarterly, 37 (8), pp. 1505-1523. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1136207 Abstract This article presents and analyses the findings of a research project on power relations in the context of development partnerships with civil society on HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, …
Fathallah, J. ‘Except that Joss Whedon is god’: fannish attitudes to statements of author/ity (2016) International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (4), pp. 459-476. DOI: 10.1177/1367877914537589 Abstract Early internet and fan studies theorists believed the New Media context and work of the active fan would bring theories like the Death of the Author to fruition. …
Chang, H.-C. The normalisation of body gifting in Taiwan (2016) BioSocieties, 11 (2), pp. 135-151. DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2015.29 Abstract The Tzu Chi Foundation has made body gifting, such as body donation, bone marrow donation and cord blood donation, successful in Taiwan. Using Foucault’s theoretical framework of governmentality and normalisation, this article discusses how a Buddhist charity, …
Andrew Hope, Governmentality and the ‘selling’ of school surveillance devices, The Sociological Review. Volume 63, Issue 4, pages 840–857, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12279 Abstract In late modernity there has been a massive growth in ‘new’ surveillance devices situated within schools. This paper explores the reasons behind this proliferation, considering the role of key protagonists and …
María Alejandra Energici, Propuesta metodológica para un estudio de gubernamentalidad: Los procesos de subjetivación y los mecanismos de regulación poblacional como ejes de análisis para su abordaje empírico, Psicoperspectivas. Individuo y Sociedad, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2016) Texto completo Resumen En 1982 Foucault definió una gubernamentalidad como el contacto entre las tecnologías de dominación de …
Luque-Ayala, A., Marvin, S. The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control (2016) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34 (2), pp. 191-208. DOI: 10.1177/0263775815611422 Abstract This paper examines the increased visibility of urban infrastructures occurring through a close coupling of information technologies and the selective integration of urban services. It …
Foucault Studies Number 21: June 2016: Counter-Conduct Table of Contents Editorial Editorial PDF Sverre Raffnsøe et al. 1-2 Special Issue on Counter-Conduct Introduction: Counter-Conduct PDF Sam Binkley, Barbara Cruikshank 3-6 From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude: Michel Foucault and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much PDF Daniele Lorenzini 7-21 Foucault Among the Stoics: …
Brendon Murphy, Deceptive apparatus: Foucauldian perspectives on law, authorised crime and the rationalities of undercover investigation, Griffith Law Review, Published online: 19 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2016.1194956 ABSTRACT Investigation of crime is central to the function and purpose of law enforcement. Contemporary investigation depends on a sophisticated arsenal of theories and techniques interacting with law and …
Borg, Kurt, Conducting critique : reconsidering Foucault’s engagement with the question of the subject, Symposia Melitensia (SymMel) 2015, Volume 11 Full PDF Abstract: A common criticism of Michel Foucault’s works is that his writings on power relations over-emphasized the effects that technologies of power have upon the subjection of humans, rendering any attempt of resistance …
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