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 …
Carolyn Hardin (2012). Finding the ‘Neo’ in Neoliberalism. Cultural Studies, 28(2), 199–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.748815 Abstract ‘Liberalism’ and ‘neoliberalism’ have become important shorthand terms in critical work that seeks to incorporate issues of economics into ideological and epochal analyses. Yet, these terms incorporate theoretical histories and refer to historical contexts so vast that they can seem ambiguous …
Lester K. Spence, The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, 2013, pages 139-159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2012.763682 Abstract The neoliberal turn arguably has a powerful effect on black political ideas, black political practices, and black life in general; the nature of this effect has gone …
Mark B. N. Hansen, Foucault and Media: A Missed Encounter?, South Atlantic Quarterly 2012 Volume 111, Number 3: 497-528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1596254 Abstract This essay stages an encounter between Michel Foucault’s work—especially his final thought concerning biopolitics, security, and population—and contemporary theorization of media’s experiential impact. The essay argues that the opportunity for such an encounter has …
Mathieu Potte‐Bonneville, Michel Foucault’s Bodies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 43, 1 (2012) 1-32 Extract The case seems settled: both in the field of the social sciences and in the discourses that accompany various contemporary political protests, Michel Foucault’s legacy is that of an eruption of bodies in at least two respects. Firstly, …
Iliopoulos, J. Foucault’s notion of power and current psychiatric practice, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 48-58 https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2012.0006 Abstract Underlying Foucault’s accounts of asylums, hospitals, prisons, and schools was a continuing concern with power and knowledge. In the field of mental health, his preoccupation with power relations and the construction …
