Puggioni, R. Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility (2022) Politics DOI: 10.1177/02633957221130263 Abstract Since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, most analyses have used a Foucauldian perspective to investigate the disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms that (il/liberal) states introduced to contain the spread of the virus. …
Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (2022) Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education, Journal of Education Policy, Published online: 15 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2157890 ABSTRACT This paper develops previous work in which we deployed a form of Foucauldian critique to clear a space in which it might be …
Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde, (2022). Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel: A discourse analysis of the Norwegian case. Acta Sociologica. First published online November 24, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136038 Abstract The quarantine hotel is one of several political instruments used to control the spread of Covid-19 in diverse countries, from Norway to China. I apply …
Aaron Zielinski (2022) The Imaginary Force of History: On images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in the 1950s, Foucault developed a notion of myth that was intimately linked to what he called “imaginary forces,” a notion …
Du, Y. “Working the government” Poverty alleviation resettlement in two Yi villages, Sichuan, China (2022) Geoforum, 136, pp. 153-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.008 Abstract Resettlement studies in China and globally draw upon Michel Foucault’s description of governmentality, classing resettlement programmes as power-laden activities, in which planning practices reorganise the built environment and life arrangements and redefine the …
Zaini, A. Ambivalent reading: Ambivalence as a reading practice in critical literacy (2022) Language Teaching Research DOI: 10.1177/13621688221126724 Abstract While previous research has suggested there are dominantly two reading practices in critical literacy, namely, reading with and against texts, this study introduces the approach of ambivalence as a third way of reading texts critically. For …
Llewellyn, A. “A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW (2022) Journal of Homosexuality, 69 (13), pp. 2348-2369. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012 Abstract In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms …
Andrä, C. Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance (2022) Review of International Studies, 48 (4), pp. 705-724. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000274 Abstract This article redirects extant critiques of the modern problem of war at this problem’s underlying logic of deviance. According to this logic, war constitutes a kind of international …
Lorenzini, D. (2021). Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations. Theory, Culture & Society, First published online January 14, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420980510 Abstract This paper addresses the multiple readings that Foucault offers of Descartes’ Meditations during the whole span of his intellectual career. It thus rejects the (almost) exclusive focus of the …
Carmona, S., Casasola, A., Ezzamel, M. Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition (2022) Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, art. no. 107031. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2022.107031 Abstract In this paper, we examine how accounting and financial conditions mediated public policy processes of prosecution, punishment, and imprisonment in the Spanish Inquisition during the late 16th and early 17th …
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