Lynne Huffer, Foucault: What could be otherwise (2013) Economic and Political Weekly, 48 (18), pp. 21-23. Abstract A noteworthy conversation that took place in September 1971 between Michel Foucault and Dutch philosopher Fons Elders is to be published for the first time later this year. It reiterates some of the best-known Foucauldian positions on the Enlightenment idea of reason, madness, …
Richard Weiskopf and Hugh Willmott, Ethics as Critical Practice: The “Pentagon Papers”, Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality (2013) Organization Studies, 34 (4), pp. 469-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612470256 Abstract This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in …
Campbell, P., Kelly, P. In/Between Feminism and Foucault: Iraqi Women’s War Blogs and Intellectual Practices of the Self (2013) Critical Sociology, 39 (2), pp. 183-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920511431851 Abstract In this article we inquire into the forms of intellectual work that are possible when non-Muslim, non-Arab, western academics (female PhD candidate, male PhD supervisor) seek to work together to analyse the war-blogs …
Niesche, R. Foucault, counter-conduct and school leadership as a form of political subjectivity (2013) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45 (2), pp. 144-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2013.768968 Abstract Globally, a range of new schooling accountabilities have created a complex and often contradictory context in which school leaders work. For principals of low socio-economic status (SES) and disadvantaged schools, they must balance the …
Spieker, J. Defending the open society: Foucault, Hayek, and the problem of biopolitical order (2013) Economy and Society, 42 (2), pp. 304-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.687929 Abstract The aim of this paper is to throw new light on a previously neglected aspect of Hayek’s political theory. In order to show the significance of Hayek’s evolutionary argument, the paper draws on Foucault’s thesis about …
Qvarsebo, J.U.D. Swedish progressive school politics and the disciplinary regime of the school, 1946-1962: A genealogical perspective(2013) Paedagogica Historica, 49 (2), pp. 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2012.725841 Abstract This article examines the vision of the Swedish comprehensive school reform between 1946-1962 as it pertains to the ever-troubling questions of discipline and order in school. Inspired primarily by the work of Michel Foucault and …
Chris Philo,‘A great space of murmurings’ Madness, romance and geography, Progress in Human Geography April 2013 vol. 37 no. 2 167-194 https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512460980 Abstract Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Foucault’s famous book commonly known in English as Madness and Civilization, this essay explores how the book has changed between versions, in …
Varela, C.R. The Romantic Realism of Michel Foucault The Scientific Temptation (2012) Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 43 (1), pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12000 Abstract Beatrice Han has argued that the theories of subjection (determinism: structure) and subjectivation (freedom: agency) are the “the blind spot[s] of Foucault’s work.” Furthermore, she continues, as historical and transcendental theories, respectively, Foucault left them …
Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Foucault: His influence over accounting and management research. Building of a map of Foucault’s approach, International Journal of Critical Accounting, 2012 Vol.4, No.5/6, pp.728 – 756 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCA.2012.051466 Abstract: The aim of this work is to build a map of Foucault’s approach. To achieve this objective, this work is focused on a broad …
Michel Foucault, The Mesh of Power, Viewpoint Magazine, 2 (September 2012). Translated by Christopher Chitty Full article online We will attempt to proceed towards an analysis of the concept of power. I am not the first, far from it, to attempt to skirt around the Freudian schema that pits instinct against suppression [répression], instinct against …
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