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”. …
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 …
