Dianna Taylor, Countering Modernity: Foucault and Arendt on Race and Racism, Telos, 154 (Spring 2011): 119-140 https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154119 Analysis of a possible intellectual affinity between philosopher Michel Foucault and political theorist Hannah Arendt is valuable in its own right, given the insight it offers into the work of these two important thinkers. At the same time, …
Thanks to Stuart at Progressive Geographies for this information History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural or culturally …
Bracken, Pat, and Philip Thomas. “From Szasz to Foucault: On the Role of Critical Psychiatry.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 17, no. 3 (2010): 219-228. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/405314 Abstract Because psychiatry deals specifically with ‘mental’ suffering, its efforts are always centrally involved with the meaningful world of human reality. As such, it sits at the interface of a …
Wróbel, Szymon, ‘Foucault Reads Freud: The Dialogue with Unreason and Enlightenment‘, Polish Sociological Review 3 (171) 2010, pp. 271-288 Abstract The title of the essay refers to the famous statement in Foucaults introduction to his History of Madness where he writes that “we have to do justice to Freud”. The problem, however, is that Foucault’s …
Blair McDonald, New Coalitions and Other Ruptures: Foucault and the Hope for Bodies and Pleasures, M/C Journal, Vol. 13, No. 6 (2010) – ‘coalition’, Vol. 13, No. 6 (2010) https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.293 See here for entire article This essay takes its point of departure from a well known excerpt found in the final pages of Michel Foucault’s …
Georg Winkel, ‘Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis’, Forest Policy and Economics Volume 16, March 2012, Pages 81–92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 Abstract In this paper, a review is conducted on the use of the concepts of Michel Foucault in forest policy analysis. In doing so, three major …
Johanna Oksala, ‘Sexual Experience: Foucault, Phenomenology, and Feminist Theory’, Hypatia, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2011 , pp. 207-223(17) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01153.x Abstract: This paper explicates Foucault’s conception of experience and defends it as an important theoretical resource for feminist theory. It analyzes Linda Alcoff’s devastating critique of Foucault’s account of sexuality and her reasons for advocating …
Katharine Daneski and Paul Higgs ‘How far can Foucault take us? An analysis of the changing discourses and limitations of the medical treatment of apoplexy and stroke’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, December 15, 2010 Full text of article Abstract This article examines the conditions under which …
Claire Blencowe ‘Foucault’s and Arendt’s ‘insider view’ of biopolitics: a critique of Agamben’, History of the Human Sciences, December 2010 vol. 23 no. 5 113-130 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110375762 Abstract This article revisits Arendt’s and Foucault’s converging accounts of modern (bio)politics and the entry of biological life into politics. Agamben’s influential account of these ideas is rejected as …
Lynne Huffer and Elizabeth Wilson ‘Mad for Foucault: A Conversation’, Theory, Culture & Society January 4, 2011 vol. 27 no. 7-8 324-338. Abstract This two-part article summarizes the major arguments of Lynne Huffer’s 2010 book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. The second part of the piece is a dialogue between Huffer …
