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 …
M. Alejandra Energici, José Antonio Román B., Claudio Ramos Z. y Sebastián Ibarra G., Solidaridad en la gubernamentalidad liberal avanzada: un análisis en piezas publicitarias, Polis, Revista Latinoamerica, 32, 2012 https://journals.openedition.org/polis/6619 Resúmenes El artículo presenta una reflexión sobre la manera en que en los últimos veinte años la promoción de un determinado tipo de solidaridad …
Malin Ideland, Claes Malmberg, Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power: critical perspectives on education for sustainable development (2015) Environmental Education Research, 21(2), 173–182 published online Feb 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.879696 Abstract This article analyses how ‘eco-certified children’ are constructed as desirable subjects in teaching materials addressing education for sustainable development. We are interested in how discourses structure …
Tom Boland, Critique is a thing of this world: Towards a genealogy of critique (2014) History of the Human Sciences, 27 (1), pp. 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695113500972 Abstract Although Foucault was clearly a critical thinker, his approach also provides for the possibility of a genealogy of critique. Such an approach problematizes critique, and I trace the emergent …
Stuart J. Murray, Allegories of the Bioethical: Reading J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year, Journal of Medical Humanities, 35, 321–334 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9273-9 Abstract This essay reads J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Diary of a Bad Year, as an occasion to problematize contemporary bioethical (and neoliberal) paradigms. Coetzee’s rhetorical strategies are analyzed to better understand the “scene …
Gregory Bowden, Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects (2014) History of the Human Sciences, 27 (1), pp. 88-107. Abstract This article explores some of the normative commitments which persist in the literature on behavioural interventions for disorders of inattention and hyperactivity. These programmatic texts grapple with a contradiction: on one hand, …
