Toby Seddon, Inventing Drugs: A Genealogy of a Regulatory Concept, Journal of Law and Society, 11 August 2016 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2016.00760.x Open access: Full PDF available Abstract The trade in, and consumption of, illicit drugs is perhaps the archetypal ‘wicked problem’ of our time – complex, globalized, and seemingly intractable – and presents us with one …
Hannah, M.G. State knowledge and recurring patterns of state phobia: From fascism to post-politics (2016) Progress in Human Geography, 40 (4), pp. 476-494. DOI: 10.1177/0309132515596875 Abstract This paper identifies some key underlying assumptions of critical political analysis by examining two moments that have brought these assumptions to the fore: the Klaus Croissant affair in West …
Göran Gerdin, The disciplinary and pleasurable spaces of boys’ PE – The art of distributions (2016) European Physical Education Review, 22 (3), pp. 315-335. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X15610352 Abstract In taking heed of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ in social theory this paper explores how the spatial intersects with boys’ performances of gender and (dis)pleasures in school physical education …
Jan Christoph Suntrup, Michel Foucault and the Competing Alethurgies of Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Volume 37, Issue 2, Summer 2017, Pages 301–325 (Published online 2016) https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqw019 Abstract Law has an epistemic dimension, contributing to the social construction of reality. Legal trials stage the constitution of knowledge, facts and other kinds of truth in …
Jo, S.J., Park, S. Critical review on power in organization: empowerment in human resource development (2016) European Journal of Training and Development, 40 (6), pp. 390-406. DOI: 10.1108/EJTD-01-2016-0005 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to analyze current practices, discuss empowerment from the theoretical perspectives on power in organizations and suggest an empowerment model based on the …
Hirtenfelder, C.T. Masking over ambiguity: Suburban Johannesburg police reservists and the uniform fetish (2016) Policing and Society, 26 (6), pp. 659-679. DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2015.1012168 Abstract Using McClintock’s theoretical concept ‘fetish’ and Foucault’s ‘bio-power’, this article explores what ambiguous perceptions of themselves reservists use the uniform to mask and how these are articulated through difference. Conducting an …
Kelly, S. Securing Dangerous Children as Literate Subjects (2016) Children Australia, pp. 1-10. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/cha.2016.16 Abstract This paper examines how the education of children as literate subjects in schools and community settings is implicated in the politics of securing civil society. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics is used to consider how young people …
Hull, Gordon, Successful Failure: What Foucault Can Teach Us About Privacy Self-Management in a World of Facebook and Big Data (December 2, 2014). Ethics and Information Technology, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533057 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2533057 Full text available Abstract: The “privacy paradox” refers to the discrepancy between the concern individuals express for their privacy and the apparently …
Ylva Uggla and Rolf Lidskog, Climate risks and forest practices: forest owners’ acceptance of advice concerning climate change (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 31 (6), pp. 618-625. https://doi.org/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 …
David Newheiser, Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism, 13, 2016, Theory, Culture & Society September 2016 vol. 33 no. 5 3-21 doi: 10.1177/0263276415619997 Abstract Although Foucault’s 1979 lectures on The Birth of Biopolitics promised to treat the theme of biopolitics, the course deals at length with neoliberalism while mentioning biopolitics hardly at all. …
