Dorrestijn, S., Verbeek, P.-P. Technology, wellbeing, and freedom: The legacy of utopian design (2013) International Journal of Design, 7 (3), pp. 45-56. Further info Abstract This paper is about the application of user-influencing design for improving wellbeing, focusing on the ethical issue of finding the right balance between determination and freedom. Two contemporary approaches for …
Olson, M., Fejes, A., Dahlstedt, M. & Nicoll, K. (2014) Citizenship discourses: Production and curriculum. British Journal of Sociology of Education. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.883917 Abstract This paper explores citizenship discourses empirically through upper secondary school student’s understandings, as these emerge in and through their everyday experiences. Drawing on a post-structuralist theorisation inspired by the work of …
Joachim Radkau, Nature and power: An intimate and ambiguous connection (2013) Social Science History, 37 (3), pp. 325-345. https://doi.org/10.1215/01455532-2209402 Abstract Nature and Power is to be understood not only as human power against nature but also as power by nature in the sense of Michel Foucault’s biopouvoir (biopower) or Francis Bacon’s “Naturae non imperator nisi …
Garratt, D., Piper, H., Taylor, B. ‘Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique (2013) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (5), pp. 615-629. Abstract This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault’s work, it examines the ‘politics of touch’ in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection …
MORTENSON, W.B., SIXSMITH, A., WOOLRYCH, R. The power(s) of observation: theoretical perspectives on surveillance technologies and older people (2013) Ageing and Society, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. Abstract There is a long history of surveillance of older adults in institutional settings and it is becoming an increasingly common feature of modern society. New surveillance technologies …
Brown, K.D., Goldstein, L.S. Preservice elementary teachers’ understandings of competing notions of academic achievement coexisting in post-NCLB public schools (2013) Teachers College Record Volume 115 Number 1, 2013, p. 1-37 Further info Abstract Background/Context: Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, teaching in public school contexts has become more complex and challenging. Today, …
Madra, Y.M., Adaman, F. Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms: De-Politicisation Through Economisation (2013) Antipode, Article in Press. Abstract This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post-war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post-Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault’s reading of …
Deborah Cook, Adorno, Foucault and critique (2013) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39 (10), pp. 965-981. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453713507016 Abstract Adorno and Foucault are among the 20th century’s most renowned social critics but little work has been done to compare their ideas about the activity of critique. ‘Adorno, Foucault and Critique’ attempts to fill this lacuna. It takes …
Guta, A., Nixon, S.A., Wilson, M.G. Resisting the seduction of “ethics creep”: Using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review (2013) Social Science and Medicine, 98, pp. 301-310. Abstract In this paper we examine “ethics creep”, a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of research ethics boards …
Gobby, B. Principal self-government and subjectification: the exercise of principal autonomy in the Western Australian Independent Public Schools programme (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (3), pp. 273-285. Abstract The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management sweeping …
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