Haueis, P. Apollinian Scientia Sexualis and Dionysian Ars Erotica? On the relation between Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Volume 43, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 260-282 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/492112 Abstract This article explores how a nonreductionist account of Nietzsche’s influence on Michel Foucault can enrich our understanding …
Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Governmobility: The Powers of Mobility, Mobilities, 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2012.747754 Abstract Mobility is often associated with flow and freedom; nonetheless, it is also about power and government. While mobility studies have shown how interpersonal social relations are increasingly supported by mobile technologies, it seems less clear how mobilities are involved in governing societies. Inspired …
Gane, N. The governmentalities of neoliberalism: Panopticism, post-panopticism and beyond, Sociological Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 611-634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02126.x Abstract This paper draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, in particular his lectures on biopolitics at the Collège de France from 1978-79, to examine liberalism and neoliberalism as governmental forms that operate through …
De Marzio, D.M. The Pedagogy of Self-Fashioning: A Foucaultian Study of Montaigne’s “On Educating Children”, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 31, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 387-405 DOI: 10.1007%2Fs11217-011-9282-3 Abstract In this paper I interpret Montaigne’s essay, “On Educating Children”, as a pedagogical text through its performance of a distinct epistolary function, one that addresses …
Erdinc, M. The Subject and Governmental Action: A Foucauldian Analysis of Subjectification and the 24 Year-Old Rule in Denmark, Feminist Legal Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 21-38 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-012-9192-y Abstract This article discusses the effects of the 24 year-old rule in Denmark utilising Foucault’s understanding of the ‘subject’ within a governmentality framework. The …
Seantel Anaïs, Genealogy and critical discourse analysis in conversation: texts, discourse, critique, Critical Discourse Studies, January 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.744321 Abstract Although genealogy is a popular methodological choice for philosophers, a number of social scientists in numerous fields have taken it up as way of studying historical texts. How one might use genealogy as a methodological approach, …
Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical authority, objectivity and the groundwork of modern citizenship Journal of Political Power Volume 6, Issue 1, 2013 Special Issue: Special Issue on Authority http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2013.774968 Abstract Authority is a powerful concept for coming to terms with the diversity of power. This article reframes the concept of ‘authority’ and articulates its continued relevance in …
Fryer D., Duckett P.: Publishing, Overview. In: Teo T. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: Springer Reference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. Introduction Within the discipline of psychology publishing is widely positioned as ‘a good thing’. Within the discourse currently dominant, publication in ‘peer reviewed’ journals (publication of and in books is less favoured in psychology …
Moore, F. Governmentality and the maternal body: Infant mortality in early twentieth-century Lancashire (2013) Journal of Historical Geography, 39, pp. 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.09.003 Abstract In an empirical extension of and theoretical commentary on Foucault’s work on governmentality, this paper takes the liberal governance of women, specifically mothers, as its focus. In Britain at the turn of …
Vrasti, W. Universal but not truly ‘global’: Governmentality, economic liberalism, and the international (2013) Review of International Studies, 39 (1), pp. 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210511000568 Abstract This article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of ‘scaling up’ a concept originally designed to describe …
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