Joseph, J. Authoritarianism, Governmentality and the COVID-19 Response (2024) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2383241 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic raises important questions about biopolitics and governmentality, not least, what are the limitations of governing through not governing too much? Important questions concern the role of the state, citizenship, privacy, and concerns about populist movements and personal freedom. …
Pinto, P., Macleod, C.I., Jones, M. Regimes of truth regarding ‘sexual justice’ in academic literature from 2012 to 2022: a scoping review (2024) Culture, Health and Sexuality DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2386051 Abstract The notion of ‘sexual justice’ has gained traction in academic and policy arenas in recent years. This paper presents a scoping literature review of the …
Goldhill, S. Beyond Michel Foucault, Beyond Peter Brown: What Did Early Christianity Destroy? (2024) Arethusa, 57 (2), pp. 193-225. DOI: 10.1353/are.2024.a934133 Abstract This article argues that the focus on sexuality and the body in early Christianity, prompted by the seminal work of Peter Brown and Michel Foucault, has obscured a truly major and profound shift …
Leonard D’Cruz, The Normative Stakes of Foucault’s Engagement with Neoliberalism: Seduction, Invention, and Normalization, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12589 Open access Abstract: This article critically examines Foucault’s engagement with neoliberalism. While Foucault declares that his analysis of this tradition is primarily descriptive, I argue that he continually questions whether neoliberalism is less …
Elmore, M. Mysticism as Counter-Conduct: A Foucauldian Retrieval of Dante and St. Catherine of Siena (2024) Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 44 (1), pp. 137-154. DOI: 10.5840/jsce2024319100 Abstract This essay draws upon Dante and St. Catherine of Siena to flesh out the Foucauldian concept of counter-conduct. Dante and Catherine occupy an important place …
Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde, Antiracist welfarism: A governmentality study of Norwegian state antiracism, Nordic Journal of Social Research, 24 September 2024, pp 1–14 https://doi.org/10.18261/njsr.15.1.5 Open access Abstract This article analyses Norwegian state antiracism and how this relates to welfarism, the political rationality of the welfare state. Using a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the author studies governmental …
Gürsoy, Ö. Historical A Priori as Form of Life: The Rationality of Social Practices in Foucault’s Archaeology in terms of Wittgensteinian Criteria (2024) Journal of the Philosophy of History DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341532 Abstract The concept of rule permeates Foucault’s methodological formulations concerning the object of his investigation, but he offers few explicit discussions of the epistemological …
Villadsen, Kaspar Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology: does Gestell ‘correspond perfectly’ to dispositif? (2024) Journal of Political Power DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2024.2390408 Abstract This article compares Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology, taking its clue from Agamben’s claim that Gestell and dispositif are ‘perfectly corresponding’ concepts. So far, however, the task of a detailed comparison of …
Civitarese, G., Distel, E. “Thus far and no further”: Inquiry into a dreamless society (2024) International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies DOI: 10.1002/aps.1889 Abstract Humans are highly social primates who naturally seek out groups in which to live. Our individual psychology is inherently intertwined with that of the group, forming an inextricable link between the …
Davoudi, S., Schoneboom, A., Díaz-Aldret, A. Counter-Conducts: A Foucauldian Analytics of Popup Civic Actions in Mexico (2024) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2387010 Abstract This paper draws on Foucault’s concept of counter-conduct to move beyond the binary understandings of civil society and social movement. Using illustrative examples of popup civic actions in the aftermath of a flooding …
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