Young, H. Asking the ‘right’ questions: the constitution of school governing bodies as apolitical (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (2), pp. 161-177. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1062145 Abstract School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research …
Ojalammi, S., Blomley, N. Dancing with wolves: Making legal territory in a more-than-human world (2015) Geoforum, 62, pp. 51-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.022 Abstract As human codings of animals are often simultaneously legal and spatial, it may be useful to bring together the animal geographies literature and scholarship on legal geography. Through a case study set in …
Nicholas Heron, What Is a Minister? Toward a Theory of the Instrumental Cause, CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015, pp. 135–166 Full text on Academia.edu First few lines The problem of the relationship between politics and religion in modernity, Michel Foucault once suggested, is not the problem of the relationship between …
VALDEZ, I. Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban (2016) American Political Science Review, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000647 Abstract This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault’s work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of …
Despard, E. Diagram of a love for plants gone bad (2016) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34 (2), pp. 337-354. DOI: 10.1177/0263775815615124 Abstract This article uses a surprising horticultural event—an unplanned, collective ‘theft’ of plants from the Montreal Botanical Garden in 1981—as impetus to interrogate the contribution of garden plants to public life …
Torrano, A. Werewolves in the immunitary paradigm (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 153-173. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2016113102 Abstract This article problematizes the political category of the monster in Hobbes’s thought from a biopolitical perspective. Even though political thought has been tra-ditionally focused on Leviathan’s figure as a political monster, here we pay particular attention to the …
Marianne Fenech and Jennifer Sumsion, Early Childhood Teachers and Regulation: Complicating Power Relations Using a Foucauldian Lens, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, June 2007 vol. 8 no. 2 109-122 https://doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2007.8.2.109 Abstract This article both supports and complicates the positioning of reconceptualists who frame the regulation of early childhood services as repressive. Drawing on Foucault’s construction …
Emily M Gray, Anne Harris, and Tiffany Jones, Australian LGBTQ teachers, exclusionary spaces and points of interruption (2016) Sexualities, 19 (3), pp. 286-303. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460715583602 Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) teachers are a marginalised group that historically have been absent from research on sexuality and schooling. Rather, much research in the field has …
Aggerholm, K. On practising in sport: towards an ascetological understanding of sport (2016) Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2016.1159917 Abstract Within the philosophy of sport, the phenomenon of practising (askēsis) has received very little attention, whereas other related aspects of sport such as excellence (aretē) and competition (agon) …
Waitt, G., Roggeveen, K., Gordon, R., Butler, K., Cooper, P. Tyrannies of thrift: Governmentality and older, low-income people’s energy efficiency narratives in the Illawarra, Australia (2016) Energy Policy, 90, pp. 37-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.11.033 Abstract Social scientists are arguing that energy policies should pay more attention to everyday life to address energy efficiency. Scholars are now …
