Dirk Postma, Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective, Journal of Education, No. 61, 2015, 31-52 https://doi.org/10.17159/i61a02 Abstract While the neoliberal order is associated with the economy, government and globalisation, as a form of governmentality it effects a particular subjectivity. The subject is the terrain where the contest of control plays out. The subject is …
Bahar Aykan and Sanem Güvenç-Salgırlı (2015). Responsibilizing individuals, regulating health: debating public spots, risk, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 53, pp 71-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/npt.2015.19 Abstract: Currently, a mass media campaign is underway in Turkey using a new communication means called the “ public spot” (kamu spotu ). This article concentrates on …
Lucas D. Introna, Algorithms, Governance, and Governmentality: On Governing Academic Writing (2016) Science Technology and Human Values, 41 (1), pp. 17-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243915587360 Abstract Algorithms, or rather algorithmic actions, are seen as problematic because they are inscrutable, automatic, and subsumed in the flow of daily practices. Yet, they are also seen to be playing an important …
Fazito, M., Scott, M., Russell, P. The dynamics of tourism discourses and policy in Brazil (2016) Annals of Tourism Research, 57, pp. 1-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2015.11.013 Abstract This article employs a Foucauldian inspired discourse analysis in order to unveil hidden aspects of the tourism development policy-making process in the UNESCO Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, Brazil. It …
Thompson, G., Mockler, N. Principals of audit: testing, data and ‘implicated advocacy’ (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040376 Abstract Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball (2003) has termed the …
Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education (2015) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1117506 Abstract In schools, the notion of ‘care is often synonymous with welfare and disciplinary regimes. Drawing on Foucault, and a study of alternative education (AE) across the UK, and looking in …
Maboloc, C.R. Consumerism and the Post-9/11 Paranoia: Michel Foucault on Power, Resistance, and Critical Thought (2015) Philosophia (United States), pp. 1-12. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-015-9682-7 Abstract This paper intends to closely examine Michel Foucault’s take on power, resistance, and critical thought in the modern state, using the market-driven consumer economy and the paranoia-induced post-9/11 …
Carl Yngfalk, Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2015) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19(3), 275–295. https://doi.org/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 State regulation. Drawing on …
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 …
