Death, C. Counter-Conducts as a Mode of Resistance: Ways of “Not Being Like That” in South Africa (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2015.1133566 Abstract This article argues that a “counter-conducts approach”, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, can be used to disaggregate the concept of resistance and highlight how some …
Ege Selin Islekel Ubu-esque sovereign, monstrous individual: Death in biopolitics (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 175-191. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2016113103 Abstract Foucault characterizes the defining feature of modern politics in terms of a new form of power concerned with maximizing life, biopolitics, as opposed to the sovereign right to kill. This characterization becomes problematic, especially when the …
Raffnsøe, S., Gudmand-Høyer, M., Thaning, M.S. Foucault’s dispositive: The perspicacity of dispositive analytics in organizational research (2016) Organization, 23 (2), pp. 272-298. DOI: 10.1177/1350508414549885 Abstract While Foucault’s work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct …
Death, C. Counter-Conducts as a Mode of Resistance: Ways of “Not Being Like That” in South Africa (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2015.1133566 Abstract This article argues that a “counter-conducts approach”, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, can be used to disaggregate the concept of resistance and highlight how some …
Kannisto, P. Extreme mobilities: Challenging the concept of ‘travel’ (2016) Annals of Tourism Research, 57, pp. 220-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.01.005 Abstract This article explores extreme mobilities by analysing how ‘global nomads’ create their lifestyles. The focus is on power negotiations regarding freedom of movement and the limits of modern-day mobilities. The study is based on in-depth …
Paul Rabinow, Foucault’s Untimely Struggle. Toward a Form of Spirituality, Theory, Culture & Society November 2009 vol. 26 no. 6 25-44 doi: 10.1177/0263276409347699 Abstract In his series of essays on Kant written during the 1980s, Michel Foucault attempted to discern the difference today made with respect to yesterday. As his essays as well as his …
Michael Peters, Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A Foucauldian Perspective, Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001 58 https://ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/EDEQ/article/view/558 Abstract The notion of ‘enterprise culture’ emerged in the United Kingdom as a central motif in political thought under Margaret Thatcher’s administration. The notion represented a profound shift away from the Keynesian …
Călin COTOI, Neoliberalism: a Foucauldian Perspective, International Review of Social Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2011, 109-124 Full PDF Abstract: The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been …
Stephen Legg, Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s, Environment and Planning D, February 25, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816633474 Abstract In this article, I situate Foucault’s governmentality analytics between his first lecture course (On the Will to Know, 1970–1971) and his first course after his two ‘governmentality’ lectures (On the Government of the Living, …
Stephen J. Ball, Living the Neo-liberal University, European Journal of Education, Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 258–261, September 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12132 Full pdf available on research gate Opening paragraphs ‘Each of my works is a part of my own biography. For one or other reason I had occasion to feel and live those things’ Truth, …
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