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”. …
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 …
