Alessandro Baccarin, L’esploratore e l’intruso. Le scienze dell’antichità di fronte a Michel Foucault, Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia, n.° 5, Gennaio-Giugno 2015, pp. 217-242 A trent’anni dalla sua scomparsa, Michel Foucault costituisce ancora una figura chiave per gli antichisti che indagano le problemantiche inerenti la sessualità e il genere nelle società antiche. Oggi, …
Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Hugs and behaviour points: Alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth (2015) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2015.1102340 Abstract In England, alternative education (AE) is offered to young people formally excluded from school, close to formal exclusion or who have been informally pushed to …
Dorrestijn, S. The Care of Our Hybrid Selves: Ethics in Times of Technical Mediation (2015) Foundations of Science, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9440-0 Abstract What can the art of living after Foucault contribute to ethics in relation to the mediation of human existence by technology? To develop the relation between technical mediation and …
Mifsud, D. The policy discourse of networking and its effect on school autonomy: a Foucauldian interpretation (2015) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1092427 Abstract Policy discourse officially operates to distinctly influence public perception in an irrevocable and normalising manner. In a Maltese educational scenario of gradual decentralisation and …
Carte Semiotiche Annali 4 – Call For Papers in Italian, English, French and Spanish PDF with full details LE IMMAGINI DEL CONTROLLO. Visibilità e governo dei corpi La redazione di Carte Semiotiche vi invita ad inviare proposte di contributo in italiano, inglese, francese o spagnolo (max. 2000 caratteri spazi inclusi o 500 parole) corredate di …
Smith, D. Rewriting the Constitution: A Critique of ‘Postphenomenology’ (2015) Philosophy and Technology, 28 (4), pp. 533-551. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-014-0175-6 Abstract This paper builds a three-part argument in favour of a more transcendentally focused form of ‘postphenomenology’ than is currently practised in philosophy of technology. It does so by problematising two key terms, ‘constitution’ and ‘postphenomenology’, …
Lynne Friedli, Robert Stearn, Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes, Medical Humanities 2015;41:40-47 doi:10.1136/medhum-2014-010622 Open Access Abstract Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work …
Rudan, P. Society as a Code: Bentham and the Fabric of Order (2015) History of European Ideas, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2015.1077147 Abstract The essay argues that Jeremy Bentham played a major role in the transitional process between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries leading to the ‘discovery’ or ‘invention of society’ as …
Casey, M., Mooney, A., Smyth, J., Payne, W. ‘Power, regulation and physically active identities’: the experiences of rural and regional living adolescent girls (2015) Gender and Education, 20 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1093098 Abstract Drawing on interpretations of Foucault’s techniques of power, we explored the discourses and power relations operative between groups of girls …
Barker-Ruchti, N., Barker, D., Sattler, S., Gerber, M., Pühse, U. Second Generation Immigrant Girls’ Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland: A Foucauldian Reading (2015) Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16 (4), pp. 1213-1229. DOI: 10.1007/s12134-014-0386-9 Abstract Although overtly racist political discourse in Switzerland has receded, culturalist discourses continue to construct ideal immigrants. Policies define …
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