Michael McCahill and Rachel L Finn, The surveillance of ‘prolific’ offenders: Beyond ‘docile bodies’ (2013) Punishment and Society, 15 (1), pp. 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474512466198 Abstract This article uses ethnographic research to explore how a sample of state-defined ‘prolific’ offenders living in Northern City (a small city in the North of England) experience and respond to a …
Katherine Nicoll, Andreas Fejes, Maria Olson, Magnus Dahlstedt, and Gert Biesta. (2013) Opening discourses of citizenship education: A theorization with Foucault. Journal of Education Policy, 28 (6): 828–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2013.823519 Abstract We argue two major difficulties in current discourses of citizenship education. The first is a relative masking of student discourses of citizenship by positioning students …
Margaret Walshaw, Post-structuralism and ethical practical action: Issues of identity and power (2013) Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 44 (1), pp. 100-118. https://doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.44.1.0100 Abstract In an era when familiar categories of identity are breaking down, an argument is made for using post-structuralist vocabulary to talk about ethical practical action in mathematics education. Using aspects …
Hans-Martin Jaeger, Governmentality’s (missing) international dimension and the promiscuity of German neoliberalism (2013) Journal of International Relations and Development, 16 (1), pp. 25-54. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2012.6 Abstract An important insight from the recent publication of Foucault’s governmentality lectures for International Relations (IR) is that international manifestations of governmentalities such as police and liberalism, rather than constituting mere …
Michael C. Behrent, Foucault and Technology, History and Technology, Vol. 29, Iss. 1, 2013, 54-104 https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2013.780351 Abstract This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) employed the terms ‘technology’ and the ‘technique’ over the course of his intellectual career. His use of these words in …
Isacco Turina, Vatican biopolitics (2013) Social Compass, 60 (1), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612471776 Abstract The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on …
Luciano Nuzzo, Foucault and the Enigma of the Monster (2013) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (1), pp. 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9275-8 Abstract In this paper Foucault’s thought on monstrosity is explored. Monsters appear whenever and wherever knowledge/power assemblages emerge. That which eludes the latter, and which threatens to subvert them, is the monstrous. Foucault …
Theresa Sauter, (2013), ‘What’s on your mind?’ Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation, New Media and Society, 16(5), 823-839. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813495160 Abstract In the context of modern western psychologised, techno-social hybrid realities, where individuals are incited constantly to work on themselves and perform their self-development in public, the use of online social networking sites …
Ansgar Allen, The Examined Life. On the Formation of Souls and Schooling, American Educational Research Journal, April 2013 vol. 50 no. 2 216-250 https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831212466934 Abstract The spread of examination throughout educational institutions is often viewed as an overly constraining influence, one that distorts pedagogic relationships and prevents more genuine educational activities from taking place. This …
Daan Wesselman, The high line, “the balloon,” and heterotopia (2013) Space and Culture, 16 (1), pp. 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331212451669 Abstract The High Line, a new park on an old elevated railway on Manhattan, is an otherworldly space that invites an understanding in terms of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. However, this often-used term requires critical reflection, particularly …
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