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 …
Aggarwal, N.K. Mental discipline, punishment and recidivism: Reading Foucault against de-radicalisation programmes in the War on Terror (2013) Critical Studies on Terrorism. Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2012.749059 Abstract This article uses Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to examine how de-radicalisation programmes in the War on Terror transform power-knowledge relations, mental discipline and punishment by attempting to …
Philippe Chevallier, « Étudier l’Église comme « gouvernementalité » », Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre | BUCEMA [En ligne], Hors-série n°7 | 2013, mis en ligne le 29 mars 2013, consulté le 24 avril 2013. https://doi.org/10.4000/cem.12874 Extrait C’est en 1978 au Collège de France, dans le cours Sécurité, territoire, population, que Michel Foucault croise les notions de « christianisme » et de …
Michel Senellart, « Michel Foucault : une autre histoire du christianisme ? », Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre | BUCEMA [En ligne], Hors-série n°7 | 2013, mis en ligne le 29 mars 2013, consulté le 24 avril 2013. https://doi.org/10.4000/cem.12872 Extrait La question du christianisme, à partir du milieu des années 70, occupe une place croissante …
Leffers, D., Ballamingie, P. Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification (2013) Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18 (2), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.719016 Abstract This article delineates concepts of eco-modernisation and urban sustainability (including its associated discourses), elucidating Foucault’s notion of governmentality and examining select moments of contested urban governance in the neighbourhood …
Hoffmann Pii, K., Villadsen, K. Protect the patient from whom? When patients contest governmentality and seek more expert guidance (2013) Social Theory and Health, 11 (1), pp. 19-39. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sth.2012.19 Abstract This article presents findings from an empirical study among patients and professionals involved in a preventive health program at a Danish hospital. It shows how …
Ball, S.J., Olmedo, A. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (1), pp. 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.740678 Abstract Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s …
Jiménez-Anca, J.J. Beyond power: Unbridging Foucault and Weber (2013) European Journal of Social Theory, 16 (1), pp. 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431012444919 Abstract Today, very few would doubt that there are plenty of reasons to liken Weber’s and Foucault’s theories of power. Nevertheless, their respective works have divergent ethical and ontological preoccupations which should be reconsidered. This article …
Kannen, V. (2013). These are not ‘regular places’: women and gender studies classrooms as heterotopias. Gender, Place & Culture, 21(1), 52–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2012.759910 Abstract This article questions the transformative potential of women and gender studies classrooms through a discussion of student experiences of privilege and oppression in these spaces. Using in-depth interviews with 22 undergraduate students …
Singh, N.M. The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India (2013) Geoforum https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.010 Abstract How do humans come to care for their environment and what turns them into conservationists are central questions in environmental politics. Recent scholars have turned to Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality” to understand …
