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, …
Harry O. Maier, Soja’s thirdspace, Foucault’s heterotopia and de Certeau’s practice: Time-space and social geography in emergent Christianity (2013) Historical Social Research, 38 (3), pp. 76-92. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.38.2013.3.76-92 Abstract This essay uses analytical tools developed by Edward Soja, Michel Foucault, and Michel de Certeau to investigate time-space configurations in the religious movements inaugurated by Jesus and …
Didier Mineur, Après Foucault. La philosophie politique en France depuis les années 1980, Cités, 2013/4 (n° 56), Pages 51 – 76 DOI: 10.3917/cite.056.0051 Premières lignes Il pourrait sembler paradoxal de faire de l’œuvre de Michel Foucault une borne dans l’histoire de la philosophie politique en France, et le point de fuite à partir duquel se …
Rebecca Raby, Children’s participation as neo-liberal governance? (2014) Discourse, 35 (1), pp. 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.739468 Abstract Children’s participation initiatives have been increasingly introduced within various institutional jurisdictions around the world, partly in response to Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Such initiatives have been critically evaluated from a number …
