Bay, U. (2011). “Unpacking neo-liberal technologies of government in Australian higher education social work departments”. Journal of social work, 11 (2), p. 222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017310386696 Abstract The Summary: This article analyses how neo-liberal and managerialist policies, over the last two decades in Australia, have positioned university staff as self-managing individuals. Social work academics are positioned as …
Vansieleghem, Nancy (2011). Philosophy with Children as an Exercise in Parrhesia: An Account of a Philosophical Experiment with Children in Cambodia. Journal of philosophy of education, 45 (2), p. 321-37. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00803.x Abstract The last few decades have seen a steady growth of interest in doing philosophy with children and young people in educational settings. …
Legg, Stephen (2011). “Assemblage/apparatus: using Deleuze and Foucault”. Area, 43 (2), p. 128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01010.x Abstract In this commentary I would like to offer some reflections on the Deleuzian concept of ‘assemblage’ (agencement) from the perspective of my grounding in ‘governmentality studies’ and, secondly, on the latter’s central concern with the concept of the security ‘apparatus’ …
Thibaut Bardon and Emmanuel Josserand (2011). “A Nietzschean reading of Foucauldian thinking: constructing a project of the self within an ontology of becoming”. Organization, 18 (4), p. 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508410384758 Abstract As influential as Michel Foucault may be in organization theory, several critics have seriously questioned the epistemological foundations of the Foucauldian philosophical project (Ackroyd and …
Machado, R. Foucault, philosophy, and literature, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 March 2012, Pages 227-234 https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2012.668814 Abstract This article focuses on Foucault’s archeological books: Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things. It addresses two issues in particular: first, Foucault’s criticism of modern philosophical and …
Newswander, Chad B. (2011). “Foucauldian Power and Schmittian Politics: The Craft of Constitution”. Administration & society, 43 (5), p. 537-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399711412735 Abstract A political pattern of power focused on defining enemies of the state permits administrative agencies to be grounded in framework that allows them to create meaning. In an effort to better understand how …
Sassatelli, Roberta. (2011). “Interview with Laura Mulvey: Gender, Gaze and Technology in Film Culture”. Theory, culture & society (0263-2764), 28 (5), pp. 123-43. Further details Abstract This conversation between Laura Mulvey and Roberta Sassatelli offers a historical reconstruction of Mulvey’s work, from her famous essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ to her most recent reflections …
Farquhar, Sandy and Fitzsimons, Peter (2011). “Lost in Translation: The power of language”. Educational philosophy and theory, 43 (6), p. 652-662. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00608.x Abstract The paper examines some philosophical aspects of translation as a metaphor for education-a metaphor that avoids the closure of final definitions, in favour of an ongoing and tentative process of interpretation …
Barder, A. D., & Debrix, F. (2011). Agonal sovereignty: Rethinking war and politics with Schmitt, Arendt and Foucault. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 37(7), 775-793. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453711410030 Abstract The notion of biopolitical sovereignty and the theory of the state of exception are perspectives derived from Carl Schmitt’s thought and Michel Foucault’s writings that have been popularized by …
Dent, C. (2011). “‘Gray, meticulous and patently documentary’: Foucaultian historical methods and the patent system”. Journal of sociology , 47 (3), p. 297-312. doi: 10.1177/1440783311407944 Abstract Patents are seen as a key part of the modern economy and operate as a mode of regulation of technology and innovation. The histories of the system, to date, …
