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. …
Karen Winter and Viviene E. Cree, Social Work Home Visits to Children and Families in the UK: A Foucauldian Perspective, British Journal of Social Work (2016) 46, 1175–1190. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcv069 Abstract The home visit is at the heart of social work practice with children and families; it is what children and families’ social workers do …
Davies, W. (2012), The Emerging Neocommunitarianism. The Political Quarterly, 83: 767–776. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02354.x Full text on academia.edu Abstract The financial crisis which began in 2007 has been widely interpreted as a crisis of neoliberalism, akin to the crisis of Keynesianism of the 1970s. But there is little sign of a major paradigmatic alternative, either in theory …
Konstantina Zerva, Peter Nijkamp, Tour guides as information filters in urban heterotopias: Evidence from the Amsterdam Red Light District (2016) Tourism Management Perspectives, 18, pp. 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2015.12.020 Abstract An unconventional urban environment often acts as an attraction for tourists. This is exemplified by the old city centre of Amsterdam, through its urban gentrification which offers …
Elizabeth J. Done, Mike Murphy and Helen Knowler, University-based professional learning for women teachers and the ‘to care’ or ‘to lead’ dilemma (2016) Professional Development in Education, 42 (4), pp. 610-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2014.948690 Abstract The authors consider the recasting of teaching as leadership with reference to school principals or heads and claim that many women teachers …
John Welsh, Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 30, 83–106 (2017). Published online 2016 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-016-9228-4 Abstract Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic life via …
