Nielsen, Cynthia R. (2011), Unearthing consonances in Foucault’s accourn of Greco-Roman self-writing and Christian technologies of the self, The Heythrop Journal, pp. 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00694.x Opening paragraphs Although his critics claim otherwise, Michel Foucault understood his work as consistently focused in one way or another on the genealogy of the subject and the construction of subjectivities.1 …
Kevin Hetherington, Foucault, the museum and the diagram, The Sociological Review Volume 59, Issue 3, Article first published online: 1 SEP 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02016.x Abstract Foucault’s work on the museum is partial and fragmentary but provides an interesting opportunity through which to explore issues of power, subjectivity and imagination. Following a discussion of Deleuze’s reading of …
Jörg Spieker, Foucault and Hobbes on Politics, Security, and War, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political August 2011 vol. 36 no. 3 187-199 https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375411418596 Abstract This article engages and seeks to develop Michel Foucault’s account of the nexus between modern politics, security, and war. Focusing on his 1976 lecture series Society Must Be Defended, the article considers …
Michael Welch, Counterveillance: How Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons reversed the optics, Theoretical Criminology August 2011 vol. 15 no. 3 301-313 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610396651 Abstract The analysis herein considers the dynamics of panopticism by developing further the concept of counter-surveillance—or counterveillance—whereby prison officials rather than the prisoners become the target of unwanted attention. While …
Ben Golder, Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights, Social Legal Studies September 2011 vol. 20 no. 3, 2011 pp. 283-312 https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911404857 Abstract Michel Foucault is not often read as a theorist of human rights. On the one hand, there is a tendency to read his works of the mid-1970s — his celebrated …
Sam Binkley, “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Social Practice and the Government of Neoliberal Interiority” Journal of the History of Human Sciences 24: 3 July 2011. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111412877 Abstract This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neoliberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it is argued that the constellations of power identified …
Naja Vucina, Claus Drejer, Peter Triantafillou, ‘Histories and freedom of the present: Foucault and Skinner’, History of the Human Sciences August 18, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111415176 Abstract This article compares the ways in which Michel Foucault’s and Quentin Skinner’s historical analyses seek to unsettle the limits on present forms of freedom. We do so by comparing their …
Ian LEASK (2011), Beyond Subjection: Notes on the later Foucault and education. Educational Philosophy and Theory. August. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00774.x Abstract This article argues against the doxa that Foucault’s analysis of education inevitably undermines self-originating ethical intention on the part of teachers or students. By attending to Foucault’s lesser known, later work—in particular, the notion of ‘biopower’ …
Munro, I. (2011), The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations after Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews. August https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00320.x Abstract This paper provides a review of the reception of Foucault’s later work on biopolitics within management and organization studies and contrasts this with the reception of these ideas in sister fields of research in the social …
Alexandre Macmillan, Michel Foucault’s Techniques of the Self and the Christian Politics of Obedience, Theory, Culture & Society July 2011 vol. 28 no. 4 3-25 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411405348 Abstract Foucault repeatedly argued that his work on techniques of the self were not a denial of his previous work on 18th- and 19th-century Europe, but a different way …
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