Carlson, Stephen C. “The Imposition of Authorship: Michel Foucault’s Author-Function and Papias of Hierapolis on the Gospel of Mark.” Harvard Theological Review 118, no. 2 (2025): 242–63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816025100680. Abstract In a famous essay, Michel Foucault introduced the term “author-function” into scholarly discourse, and later scholars of authorship in antiquity have applied the term in different …
Maya Krishnan, (2025) “Over-intelligibility”, Political Philosophy 2(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/pp.24931 Abstract Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet …
Foucault Studies, Issue 38, Fall 2025 Open access Table of Contents Editorial Foucault’s Revision of Ideology Critique Johanna Oksala Waging War, Waging Peace: The Weimar Right and Michel Foucault’s Analysis of Power in the Mirror of the Archives Philipp Kender Genealogy Between Health and Illness: On the Ambiguity of the Historical Sense in Foucault’s 1969–1970 …
Thakur, S. Environmental crises as crises of representation: Community rights and natural resource (Mis) management in India. Jindal Global Law Review 16, 357–386 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-025-00273-3 Abstract If one has to look for the origin to diffusing environmental crises, one must look in the forests and the usurpation of its governance from communities by the developmental …
Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Philips, J., Procter, S. Governing the factory: microhistories of the present (2024) Management and Organizational History DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127 Abstract Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but …
Reid-Pharr, R.F. Monster in the Archive (2024) James Baldwin Review, 10 (1), pp. 21-35. DOI: 10.7227/JBR.10.2 Abstract “Monster in the Archive” asks what the presence of a figure with a massive archival presence like James Baldwin does to our understanding of the presumed “absence” or “lack” of Black subjects in American archives. Paying careful attention …
Sheehey, B. Between a scalpel and a touch, or, Foucault’s ways of writing the dead (2023) Diacritics, 51 (3), pp. 8-29. DOI: 10.1353/dia.2023.a938173 Abstract This essay draws on Michel Foucault’s reflections on his writing practice to develop a reading of his historical inquiries as exercises of what I call “death-writing.” Death-writing is a type of …
Trémon, A.-C. Spatial governmentality and the rhetoric of scarce resources: ‘Scientific and reasonable’ points systems in Shenzhen (China) (2024) Environment and Planning A DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241286335 Abstract Since the early 2010s, all Chinese megacities have adopted points systems that allow ordinary people to apply for urban citizenship (hukou) in the city where they live. Although intended …
Leonard D’Cruz, What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe, Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251379790 Abstract: Achille Mbembe presents ‘necropolitics’ as a corrective to Foucault’s conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contemporary politics of death. However, it is not clear that Mbembe succeeds in (a) demonstrating the …
Hegde, S. (2025). Testing the limits of statism: concluding reflections on migrations and Borderlands. Asian Ethnicity, 26(4), 800–816. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2025.2524539 ABSTRACT My effort is to come to terms with the double logic implicating the dynamics of the phenomena of migrations and borderlands, both as framed by the ethnographies collected herein and the larger rubric of borderland …
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