Herrmann, A. F. (2012). “”I Know I’m Unlovable”: Desperation, Dislocation, Despair, and Discourse on the Academic Job Hunt”. Qualitative inquiry, 18 (3), p. 247-55 https://doi.org/10.1177/107780041143156 Abstract Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. …
Terry Flew, ‘Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates’, Thesis Eleven, February 2012 vol. 108 no. 1 44-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136114214 Abstract Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich von …
Arnaud Fossier, « La contagion des péchés (xie-xiiie siècle). Aux origines canoniques du biopouvoir », Tracés. Revue de Sciences humaines [En ligne], 21 | 2011, URL : http://traces.revues.org/5128 Aperçu du texte Le modèle contagionniste d’explication de certaines maladies physiologiques, mais aussi des mouvements collectifs et de la criminalité, a vu ses fondements théoriques consolidés au xixe siècle avec l’identification médicale …
Philo, C. (2012), A ‘new Foucault’ with lively implications – or ‘the crawfish advances sideways’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00484.x Abstract This paper argues that we may now speak of a ‘new Foucault’ with more to say to contemporary human geography than might at first be suspected. A number of recent publications …
Force, Pierre (2011). “The teeth of time: Pierre Hadot on meaning and misunderstanding in the history of ideas”. History and theory, 50 (1), pp. 20-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2011.00566.x Abstract The French philosopher and intellectual historian Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is known primarily for his conception of philosophy as spiritual exercise, which was an essential reference for the later …
McCallum, David (2011). “Liberal Forms of Governing Australian Indigenous Peoples”. Journal of law and society 38 (4), pp. 604-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2011.00560.x Abstract This article considers three different historical events from the point of view of their connections to aspects of the history of liberal political reason: the actions of the British in New South Wales in …
Holloway, Lewis (2011). “Choosing and rejecting cattle and sheep: changing discourses and practices of (de)selection in pedigree livestock breeding”. Agriculture and human values, 28 (4), pp. 533-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-010-9298-2 Abstract This paper examines the discourses and practices of pedigree livestock breeding, focusing on beef cattle and sheep in the UK, concentrating on an under-examined aspect of …
Bonsu Samuel K. and Polsa Pia (2011). “Governmentality at the Base-of-the-Pyramid”. Journal of macromarketing, 31 (3), pp. 236-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146711407506 Abstract The Base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) corporate strategy perceives market-based solutions to the problem of global poverty. The strategy is premised on the view that people in BoP markets live in fundamental lack, which can be overcome with …
Steve Urbanski, The Identity Game: Michel Foucault’s Discourse-Mediated Identity as an Effective Tool for Achieving a Narrative-Based Ethic, The Open Ethics Journal, 2011, 5, 3-9 Open access pdf Abstract: This article examines in hermeneutic fashion the philosophy of Michel Foucault and isolates an identity matrix that can assist humans in navigating the often numerous and …
Kalmbach Phillips, Donna (2011). “Biopower, disciplinary power, and the production of the ‘good Latino/a teacher’”. Discourse, 32 (1), p. 71. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2011.537074 Abstract This inquiry explores who is the ‘good teacher of color’. Through Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower and disciplinary power, the analysis attempts to problematize the subject-position of ‘teacher of color’ by exploring how …
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