Marnia Lazreg, Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles? (2013) Contemporary Arab Affairs, 6 (1), pp. 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2012.757884 Abstract This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ’empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ …
Teresa Macias, ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile (2013) International Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.701912 Abstract In the same way that torture has become a common and privileged instrument of war and political repression, and a regular occurrence of our time, so, too, has the question of …
Burke A. Hendrix, Where should we expect social change in non-ideal theory? (2013) Political Theory, 41 (1), pp. 116-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591712463201 Abstract This essay considers the relationship between ideal theory and non-ideal theory. It begins with Rawls’s conception of ideal theory and A. John Simmons’s articulation of non-ideal theory. Both defend the priority of ideal theory …
Eva Vakirtzi, Phil Bayliss, Towards a Foucauldian Methodology in the Study of Autism: Issues of Archaeology, Genealogy, and Subjectification (2013) Journal of Philosophy of Education Volume 47, Issue 3, pages 364–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12004 Abstract The remarkable increase in diagnoses of autism has paralleled an increase in scientific research and turned the syndrome into a kind of …
Alissa Overend, Candida, food discipline and the dietary taming of uncertainty (2013) Food, Culture and Society, 16 (1), pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174413X13500468045560 Abstract Discourses of nutritional health are strongly associated with illness, and have recently been linked to the prevalence and management of chronic undefined disorders. Using the case of Candida-a yeast-related disorder of vague symptomatology-I …
Dominik Bartmanski, How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault, European Journal of Social Theory, Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 427-453 https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577 Abstract The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under …
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 …
