John Iliopoulos, Foucault, Baudrillard and the History of Madness, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 10, Number 2 (July 2013) Extract I. Introduction Michel Foucault’s groundbreaking work altered our perception of psychiatry. Although generally labeled anti-psychiatric for its supposed narrative of exclusion of madness by the oppressive power of Enlightenment reason, its scope reaches far …
Gouvernementalité et biopolitique : les historiens et Michel Foucault Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2013/4-5 (n° 60-4/4 bis). 208 pages. Further info Sommaire Foucault historien ? Michael C. Behrent Penser le XXe siècle avec Michel Foucault Paolo Napoli Foucault et l’histoire des normativités Luca Paltrinieri Biopouvoir, les sources historiennes d’une fiction politique Des outils pour …
Steven Dorrestijn, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Technology, wellbeing, and freedom: The legacy of utopian design (2013) International Journal of Design, 7 (3), pp. 45-56. https://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/1512 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 user-influencing …
Maria Olson, Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt, Katherine Nicoll, 2015. “Citizenship Discourses: Production and Curriculum.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 36 (7): 1036–53. Published online: 24 Feb 2014 https://doi.org/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 …
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 …
Dean Garratt, Heather Piper & Bill Taylor, ‘Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique (2013) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (5), pp. 615-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2012.736861 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 …
W. Ben Mortenson, Andrew Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, The power(s) of observation: theoretical perspectives on surveillance technologies and older people (2013) Ageing and Society, 2015;35(3):512-530. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000846 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 that include …
Keffrelyn D. Brown and Lisa S. Goldstein, 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 https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811311500104 Abstract Background/Context: Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, teaching in public school contexts has become more complex and …
Yahya M. Madra, Fikret Adaman, Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms: De-Politicisation Through Economisation (2013) Antipode, 46: 691-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12065 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 …
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 …
