Yngfalk, C. Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2015) Consumption Markets and Culture, pp. 1-21. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with …
Miller, M.C., Grimwood, B.S.R., Arai, S.M. Ascetic practices for reflexively navigating power, privilege and freedoms in leisure research (2015) Leisure/ Loisir, pp. 1-20. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2015.1116204 Abstract Critical reflexivity enables leisure researchers to interrogate assumptions and discursive structures associated with subjectivities enacted in and through research processes. We argue that reflexive practices implemented …
Bredlöv, E. Shaping the female student: an analysis of Swedish beauty school recruitment texts (2015) Studies in Continuing Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2015.1113165 Abstract This study focuses on the recruitment of adults to the beauty industry in Sweden. It is concerned with a move in (beauty) education away from state and towards …
Powell, L. Doing Time: Temporality and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century British Prison Experience (2015) Life Writing, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2015.1118665 Abstract This paper argues that carceral experience was a generative and organisational motif in a large number of influential early British novels, which are read as life writing. I deploy Mikhail Bakhtin’s …
Olssen, M. Neoliberal competition in higher education today: research, accountability and impact (2016) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (1), pp. 129-148. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2015.1100530 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s elaboration of neoliberalism as a positive form of state power, the ascendancy of neoliberalism in higher education in Britain is examined in terms of the displacement …
Waring, J., Latif, A., Boyd, M., Barber, N., Elliott, R. Pastoral power in the community pharmacy: A Foucauldian analysis of services to promote patient adherence to new medicine use (2016) Social Science and Medicine, 148, pp. 123-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.049 Abstract Community pharmacists play a growing role in the delivery of primary healthcare. This has led …
Sifakakis, P., Tsatsaroni, A., Sarakinioti, A., Kourou, M. Governance and knowledge transformations in educational administration: Greek responses to global policies (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 35-67. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040377 Abstract This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the …
Hardy C., Maguire S. Organizing risk: Discourse, power, and “riskification” (2016) Academy of Management Review, 41 (1), pp. 80-108. DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0106 Abstract Drawing on the work of Foucault, we develop an integrated framework for understanding how risk is organized in three different modes: prospectively, in real time, and retrospectively. We show how these modes are …
Andreas Folkers, Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique, Theory, Culture & Society, January 2016 vol. 33 no. 1 3-28 doi: 10.1177/0263276414558885 Abstract This paper draws attention to Foucault’s genealogy of critique. In a series of inquiries, Foucault traced the origins and trajectories of critical practices from the ancient tradition of parrhesia …
Cristina Chimisso, Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem’s concept of scientific ideology (2015) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54, pp. 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.016 Abstract In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of ‘scientific ideology’. This concept had not played any role in his previous work, so why introduce it at all? …
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