Terri Bourke, John Lidstone & Mary Ryan, Schooling Teachers: Professionalism or disciplinary power? (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (1), pp. 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.839374 Abstract Since public schooling was introduced in the nineteenth century, teachers in many western countries have endeavoured to achieve professional recognition. For a short period in the latter part of the twentieth …
Rajesh Venugopal, Neoliberalism as Concept, Economy and Society, Published online: 24 Apr 2015 DOI:10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356 Abstract This paper is a critical exploration of the of the term neoliberalism. Drawing on a wide range of literature across the critical social sciences and with particular emphasis on the political economy of development, it evaluates the consequences of the …
Appel à Article : “RELIRE MICHEL FOUCAULT Pouvoir et résistances : les dispositifs de contrôle” Cet appel invite à proposer des interprétations de Michel Foucault qui s’éloignent de la vision réductrice d’un critique pessimiste, qui dénonce les excès de pouvoir et les dispositifs en tout genre de contrôle social, mais sans proposer d’alternative. D’autres lectures …
Guilfoyle, M. Therapy and the aesthetics of the self (2015) British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2014.1002075 Abstract Post-structuralists argue that personal identity is a function of societal power dynamics. This becomes especially problematic for persons recruited into problem-saturated identities. In this paper, inspired by Foucault’s call for us …
Devisch, I., Vanheule, S. Foucault at the bedside: A critical analysis of empowering a healthy lifestyle (2015) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1111/jep.12329 Abstract Since quite a few years, philosophy is heading towards the bedside of the patient: the practice of philosophy has stepped out of its ivory tower, …
Turner, S. Not So Radical Historicism (2015) Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 45 (2), pp. 246-257. DOI: 10.1177/0048393114531372 Abstract Mark Bevir raises the question of how genealogy, understood as a technique-based radical historicism, and the notion of the contingency of ideas, ground “critique.” His problem is to avoid the relativism of radical historicism in a …
Kendall R. Phillips The Event of Dissension: Reconsidering the Possibilities of Dissent (2015) Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101 (1), pp. 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2015.994899 Abstract Dissent emerges out of unique prior conditions in which the coherence of dominant discourses is momentarily opened for contest. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, these conditions are conceptualized through the …
van Drenth, A. Sensorial experiences and childhood: nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy (2015) Paedagogica Historica, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2015.1019711 Abstract Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this …
Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378 Full PDF here Abstract While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a form of political pastorate, did not exist in ancient Greece, he did take the view, following Hegel, that the ancient …
Colin Gordon, New additions to academia.edu site, March 2015 « Le possible : alors et maintenant : The possible then and now. » A new publication in a special issue of the French journal Cultures & Conflits on the theme of the critique of criminological reason. My piece is an essay in the history of …
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