A brief genealogy of governmentality studies: the Foucault effect and its developments. An interview with Colin Gordon by Fabiana Jardim, Educação e Pesquisa, vol.39 no.4 São Paulo Oct./Dec. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022013000400016 Full text available from this link ABSTRACT This interview approaches the intellectual context within the areas of philosophy and social sciences, in the 1970s United …
Thinking Historically About Neoliberalism: Nick Gane’s response to Will Davies, Theory, Culture and Society, May 28, 2014 In 1971, Michel Foucault wrote a short polemic, entitled ‘Monstrosities in Criticism’, that took issue with reviews of Madness and Civilization and The Order of Things that had been published by Jean-Marc Pelorson and George Steiner. Foucault opened …
Patrick Gamez, Ricoeur and Foucault: Between Ontology and Critique, Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ Ricoeur Studies (ERSS), Vol 4, No 2 (2013) doi: 10.5195/errs.2013.160 Link to full PDF Abstract In this paper, I trace some of Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault in his major works on historiography, and evaluate them. I find that Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault’s archaeological project in …
Philippe Fournier, Foucault and International Relations, E-International Relations, May 12 2014 Extract Michel Foucault’s name will be familiar to most IR scholars and his influence on the discipline appears to be beyond doubt. The work that Foucault inspired in International Relations is invariably associated with the post-structuralist approach and includes theoretical interventions as much as …
Dotan Leshem, Embedding Agamben’s Critique of Foucault: The Theological and Pastoral Origins of Governmentality, Theory, Culture & Society, June 30, 2014 doi: 10.1177/0263276414537315 Abstract This article tackles Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Michel Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality in two ways: first, by presenting an alternative model of the relations between pastoral and theological economy and, second, …
Editor: See comments on this post and this article and this retraction notice Also Michel Charles, Le plagiat sans fard. Recette d’une singulière imposture, Fabula, November 2014 Call for Papers: DISCOURSES OF MADNESS/ DISCOURS DE LA FOLIE (Special volume of Neohelicon [43, 2016]. Guest-Editor: R.-L. Etienne Barnett) PROSPECTUS Contributions on any aspect of madness in …
David Fryer and Rose Stambe, “Work and ‘the crafting of individual identities’ from a critical standpoint”, The Australian Community Psychologist, Volume 26, No 1, June 2014. Full PDF for download Abstract In this paper we start by critically problematising the argument that employment is important to the crafting of individual identities by drawing on the work of Michel Foucault …
Mills, C. Reproductive autonomy as self-making: Procreative liberty and the practice of ethical subjectivity (2013) Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom), 38 (6), pp. 639-656. Abstract In this article, I consider recent debates on the notion of procreative liberty, to argue that reproductive freedom can be understood as a form of positive freedom-that is, …
Larsson, H., Quennerstedt, M., Öhman, M. Heterotopias in physical education: towards a queer pedagogy? (2014) Gender and Education, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract This article sets out to outline how prevailing gender structures can be challenged in physical education (PE) by exploring queer potentials in an event that took place during a dancing lesson in …
Bruce P Braun, A new urban dispositif? governing life in an age of climate change (2014) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 (1), pp. 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1068/d4313 Abstract In an interview in 1977 Michel Foucault proposed the term dispositif for a heterogeneous set of discourses, practices, architectural forms, regulations, laws, and knowledges connected together …
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