Colin Gordon, Plato in Weimar. Weber revisited via Foucault: two lectures on legitimation and vocation, Economy and Society, Volume 43, Issue 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.956464 The text that follows brings together two papers about resonances between late lectures: Weber’s lectures of 1918 on science and politics as vocations, and Foucault’s final courses (1980–84) on subjectivity, …
Meenal Tula & Rekha Pande Re-inscribing the Indian courtesan: A genealogical approach (2014) Journal of International Women’s Studies, 15 (1), pp. 67-82. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol15/iss1/5/ Full PDF Abstract Women historiography has been one of the major concerns of the feminist movement particularly since 1960s. Looking at the figure of the courtesan in India-its histories, representations, repression and …
Paul Hanna Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in Psychology: Reflecting on a Hybrid Reading of Foucault When Researching “Ethical Subjects” (2014) Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11 (2), pp. 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2013.853853 Abstract This article attempts to address a novel dilemma the author recently faced when undertaking qualitative psychological research into sustainable tourism. The article embraces notions of reflexivity …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My substantial (c. 8,000 words) essay on Foucault’s La société punitive is forthcoming in Historical Materialism. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for his invitation to write this, and Alberto Toscano for taking it through two rounds of review. My shorter review of this important lecture course appeared in Berfrois earlier this year. You can…
Coll, S. Power, knowledge, and the subjects of privacy: understanding privacy as the ally of surveillance (2014) Information Communication and Society. Article in Press. Abstract The aim of this article is to argue that privacy, rather than serving only as a countermeasure against surveillance, can also be seen as its ‘partner-in-crime’. Normative statements made by …
Bye, J. Foucault and the use of critique: breaching the self-evidence of educational practices (2014) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Article in Press. Abstract This paper poses methodological questions about the role and limits of Foucault’s concept of governmentality in education research. Firstly, it argues for the utility of governmentality as a means …
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2014 Assuming Gender would like to invite submissions to our forthcoming special issue: ‘Neoliberal Gender, Neoliberal Sex’. Neoliberalism has recently come to define a particular object of critical enquiry, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …
Pezdek, K., Michaluk, T. The functioning of the Polish Football Association from the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conception of exclusion (2014) Soccer and Society. Article in Press. Abstract One of the management methods used by the Polish Football Association (PZPN) is management through exclusion. Due to such management, the Association constitutes to a considerable degree …
Connor J. Cavanagh Biopolitics, Environmental Change, and Development Studies, Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 41, Iss. 2, 2014, 273-294 https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2014.901243 Abstract This article proposes a Foucaultian, yet more-than-human, conceptual framework for scholars of both international development and biopolitics in our current historical–geographical conjuncture: the ostensibly nascent Anthropocene. Under these conditions, it is argued that biopower …
Ragan Fox Auto-archaeology of Homosexuality: A Foucauldian Reading of the Psychiatric–Industrial Complex, Text and Performance Quarterly, Vol. 34, Iss. 3, 2014, 230-250. Abstract This essay explores two primary questions. (1) Can there be a Foucauldian autoethnography? (2) How might a Foucault-driven autoethnography detail my experiences in the psychiatric–industrial complex? Pulling largely from Michel Foucault’s earliest …
Foucault News 