Thakur, S. Environmental crises as crises of representation: Community rights and natural resource (Mis) management in India. Jindal Global Law Review 16, 357–386 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-025-00273-3 Abstract If one has to look for the origin to diffusing environmental crises, one must look in the forests and the usurpation of its governance from communities by the developmental …
Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Philips, J., Procter, S. Governing the factory: microhistories of the present (2024) Management and Organizational History DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127 Abstract Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but …
Reid-Pharr, R.F. Monster in the Archive (2024) James Baldwin Review, 10 (1), pp. 21-35. DOI: 10.7227/JBR.10.2 Abstract “Monster in the Archive” asks what the presence of a figure with a massive archival presence like James Baldwin does to our understanding of the presumed “absence” or “lack” of Black subjects in American archives. Paying careful attention …
Sheehey, B. Between a scalpel and a touch, or, Foucault’s ways of writing the dead (2023) Diacritics, 51 (3), pp. 8-29. DOI: 10.1353/dia.2023.a938173 Abstract This essay draws on Michel Foucault’s reflections on his writing practice to develop a reading of his historical inquiries as exercises of what I call “death-writing.” Death-writing is a type of …
Trémon, A.-C. Spatial governmentality and the rhetoric of scarce resources: ‘Scientific and reasonable’ points systems in Shenzhen (China) (2024) Environment and Planning A DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241286335 Abstract Since the early 2010s, all Chinese megacities have adopted points systems that allow ordinary people to apply for urban citizenship (hukou) in the city where they live. Although intended …
Leonard D’Cruz, What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe, Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251379790 Abstract: Achille Mbembe presents ‘necropolitics’ as a corrective to Foucault’s conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contemporary politics of death. However, it is not clear that Mbembe succeeds in (a) demonstrating the …
Hegde, S. (2025). Testing the limits of statism: concluding reflections on migrations and Borderlands. Asian Ethnicity, 26(4), 800–816. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2025.2524539 ABSTRACT My effort is to come to terms with the double logic implicating the dynamics of the phenomena of migrations and borderlands, both as framed by the ethnographies collected herein and the larger rubric of borderland …
Murray, C., Butler, P., Ó Gallchóir, C., & Salokangas, M. (2025). Tensions that stultify education: school principals reflecting on their professional relationships. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2025.2524799 ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationships that principals identify as most significant to their leadership and how these shape their professional identities. Drawing on Foucault’s …
Shakib Zarbighalehhammami, Exploring the Comprehensive Surveillance Strategies of the Iranian Government to Control Women’s Attire Post the Women, Life, Freedom Movement, Sexuality, Gender & Policy, Volume 8, Issue 3 e70011, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.70011 ABSTRACT The comprehensive surveillance system, expanded today through technology, provides a more precise form of monitoring and control over citizens, enabling a unified …
Garruzzo, A. (2025). History and the Will to Power: Foucault and Nietzsche on Genealogy. European Journal of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70010 ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in genealogy among social and political philosophers. I argue, however, that this growing literature has tended to obscure what distinguishes genealogy as an approach to …
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