Mooney, J. A tale of two regicides (2014) European Journal of Criminology, 11 (2), pp. 228-250. Abstract This paper examines two attempted 18th century cases of regicide: those of Robert François Damiens against Louis XV and Margaret Nicholson against George III, which have similar circumstances yet, on the face of it, strikingly different outcomes. For …
Pepper, S. Subscribing to Governmental Rationality: HBO and the AIDS Epidemic (2014) Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract Between 1987 and 2013, HBO produced or distributed over twenty HIV/AIDS programs. These films trace a cultural shift from an early focus on AIDS as a public health issue to be dealt with …
Korycki, K., Nasirzadeh, A. Desire recast: the production of gay identity in Iran (2014) Journal of Gender Studies, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract This paper traces the transformation of sexual space in Iran during the past 200 years; a process which culminated in the emergence of Iranian gays at the beginning of this century. We …
Jusionyte, I. For social emergencies “We Are 9-1-1”: How journalists perform the state in an Argentine Border Town (2014) Anthropological Quarterly, 87 (1), pp. 151-181. Abstract This article focuses on Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine town bordering Brazil and Paraguay, where the local media create a patchwork of substitute social services that form the basis of …
Rosol, M. On resistance in the post-political city: Conduct and counter-conduct in Vancouver (2014) Space and Polity, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract The paper contributes to understandings of contestation and resistance in urban politics, using a land use struggle against a “big-box” development in Vancouver, Canada as an example. It surveys Foucault’s work on “governmentality,” …
van Winsen, R., Henriqson, E., Schuler, B., Dekker, S.W.A. Situation awareness: some conditions of possibility (2014) Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract Situation awareness (SA) has become a ubiquitous object of knowledge in our discourses of human performance and accident explanation. Based on Michel Foucault’s archaeological approach, in this paper, we …
Boano, C., Leclair-Paquet, B. Potential, freedom and space: Reflections on Agamben’s potentialities in the West Bank (2014) Space and Polity, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract A special kind of infrastructure has emerged around the West Bank, which lays bare Israel’s capacity to spatialise its colonial power and to constantly solidify its presence. Reading these spatial …
Hardie, M. Making Visible the Invisible Act of Doping (2014) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 27 (1), pp. 85-119. Abstract This paper describes the construction of the visual space of surveillance by the global anti-doping apparatus, it is a space inhabited daily by professional cyclists. Two principal mechanisms of this apparatus will be …
Viernes, N. The Magistrate is the Muse: Law and Visual Economy in Bangkok (2014) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 27 (1), pp. 27-46. Abstract Governmentality is a spatial formation negotiated within historically-constituted political landscapes. In Bangkok, this spatialization of power is manifested in the militarization of urban life and the protocols of security …
Webb, P.T. Policy problematization (2014) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27 (3), pp. 364-376. Abstract This article places Michel Foucault’s concept of problematization in relation to educational policy research. My goal is to examine a key assumption of policy related to “solving problems” through such technologies. I discuss the potential problematization has to …
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