Cox, Barbara; Pringle, Richard (2012). “Gaining a foothold in football: A genealogical analysis of the emergence of the female footballer in New Zealand”. International review for the sociology of sport, 47 (2), pp. 217-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690211403203 Abstract In this article we adopted Foucault’s genealogical approach to examine the emergence of the female footballer in the early …
Purabi Bose, Bas Arts, Han van Dijk, (2012). “‘Forest governmentality’: A genealogy of subject-making of forest-dependent ‘scheduled tribes’ in India”. Land use policy, 29 (3), pp. 664-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.11.002 Abstract This paper analyses the historical trajectories of both British colonial rule and independent India to categorise scheduled tribes and to appropriate and legalise forests in tribal …
Minka Woermann (2012), Interpreting Foucault: an evaluation of a Foucauldian critique of education. South African Journal of Education Vol 32:111-120 https://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v32n1a560 Abstract The potential strengths and weaknesses of a Foucauldian critique of education are discussed and evaluated. The article focuses specifically on the value of Foucault’s work for critiquing social and political ideologies prevalent in …
Deutscher, P. (2012). “Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I: Re-reading its Reproduction”. Theory, culture & society, 29 (1), p. 119-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411423772 Abstract This paper interrogates the status of the Malthusian couple and the policing and government of reproduction in the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I (HS1), and the associated College de …
Ben Golder, Foucault, Rights and Freedom, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (11 February 2012), pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9259-8 Abstract As dominant liberal conceptions of the relationship between rights and freedom maintain, freedom is a property of the individual human subject and rights are a mechanism for protecting that freedom—whether it be the freedom to …
Marquez, Xavier (2012). “Spaces of Appearance and Spaces of Surveillance”. Polity, 44 (1), p. 6-31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41426920 Abstract Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault developed different but complementary theories about visibility and power In an Arendtian “space of appearance,” the common visibility of actors generates power, which is understood as the potential for collective action. In a …
Bourcier, M.-H. (2012). “Cultural translation, politics of disempowerment and the reinvention of queer power and politics”. Sexualities, 15 (1), p. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460711432107 Abstract This article addresses the task of describing the flows and trends of cultural translation of queer between the USA and Europe, particularly France. Firstly, it demonstrates how queer groups located in France …
Taylor, Chloe (2012). “Foucault and Familial Power”. Hypatia, 27 (1), p. 201-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01171.x Abstract This paper provides an overview of Michel Foucault’s continually changing observations on familial power, as well as the feminist-Foucauldian literature on the family. It suggests that these accounts offer fragments of a genealogy of the family that undermine any all-encompassing or …
Thompson, Malcolm (2012). “Foucault, fields of governability, and the population-family-economy nexus in China”. History and theory, 51 (1), p. 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2012.00611.x Abstract It was only in the early twentieth century that China discovered that it had a population, at least if a population is understood not as a simple number of people but instead in …
The first issue of an exciting new half-yearly peer reviewed journal entirely dedicated to Foucault and the applications of his thought materiali foucaultiani is now available online. It is open access and freely available for download. The first issue includes a special section devoted to the “Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Foucault”. …
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