Graham, Helen (2012). “Scaling governmentality: Museums, co-production and re-calibrations of the ‘logic of culture’”. Cultural studies, 26 (4), pp. 565-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.679285 Abstract This article explores contemporary uses of museum co-production for public policy through a sustained theoretical engagement with Tony Bennett’s work on museums as an ‘object of government’. The specific focus is a theoretical …
Esposito, R. The dispositif of the person, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 17-30 https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872111403104 Abstract In this essay one of Italy’s leading philosophers examines the category of person from legal, historical, and biopolitical perspectives. Reading texts ranging from Roman law to Christian theology to bioethics, Esposito shows how …
Street, A.A , Coleman, S.B. Introduction: Real and imagined spaces, Space and Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 4-17 https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331211421852 Abstract The hospital’s ambiguous relationship to everyday social space has long been a central theme of hospital ethnography. Often, hospitals are presented either as isolated “islands” defined by biomedical regulation of space (and …
Biebricher, Thomas & Frieder Vogelmann, Governmentality and State Theory: Reinventing the Reinvented Wheel?, Theory & Event, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2012 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/484422 Abstract In this paper we pose the question what constitutes the originality of governmentality as a state analytical framework by confronting it with alternative contemporary approaches in state theory, suggesting that the latter …
Hoffman, M. Foucault and the lesson of the prisoner support movement, New Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 21-36 https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2012.646018 Abstract Shocked by harsh prison conditions in France, Michel Foucault in February 1971 co-founded the Information Group on Prisons (GIP), a group dedicated to heightening public intolerance towards the prison system by …
Dean, Mitchell. The signature of power, Journal of Political Power, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 101-117 https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2012.659864 Abstract This concept of power keeps referring its users to a domain of apparent antinomies, which from a formal theoretical perspective are in turn construed as unities in opposition to further terms. Three such sequences are …
Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 25, Issue 03, September 2012 Special section on Foucault. For a limited period to mark the 29th anniversary of the journal this issue is available free online On the Uses of Foucault for International Law TANJA AALBERTS and BEN GOLDER pp 603-608 In Praise of Description ANNE ORFORD pp …
Stierl, M. ‘No One Is Illegal!’ Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort, Globalizations, Volume 9, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 425-438 https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2012.680738 Abstract This work attempts to recast conceptions of global/ised political resistance. Instead of following systematic accounts of actors seeking global social transformation, it is shown how a Foucauldian understanding of power and resistance-here …
Springer, S. Neoliberalism as discourse: Between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism, Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 2012, Pages 133-147 https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.656375 Abstract Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the …
Rogers, D. Research, practice, and the space between: Care of the self within neoliberalized institutions, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 242-254 https://doi.org/10.1177/153270861244025 Abstract This article challenges the neoliberal discourse of “instrumental rationality” that is encroaching on theories of qualitative research, critical reflection, and subjectivity. I return to Foucault’s …
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