Pasi Ahonen, Janne Tienari, Susan Meriläinen, and Alison Pullen, Hidden contexts and invisible power relations: A Foucauldian reading of diversity research(2014) Human Relations, 67 (3), pp. 263-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726713491772 Abstract This article joins recent critical diversity studies that point to an urgent need to revitalize the field, but goes further by showing the inherent contextual issues …
Millei, Z., Cliff, K. The preschool bathroom: Making ‘problem bodies’ and the limit of the disciplinary regime over children (2014) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2), pp. 244-262. Abstract In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from …
Jayne Mooney, A tale of two regicides (2014) European Journal of Criminology, 11 (2), pp. 228-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370813494860 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. …
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 …
Ieva Jusionyte, “For Social Emergencies “We Are 9-1-1”: How Journalists Perform the State in an Argentine Border Town.” Anthropological Quarterly 87, no. 1 (2014): 151-181. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.2014.0004 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 …
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 …
