Johnson, J. M. (2024). The Biopolitics of Liberal War: Humanity, Temporality and Cosmology. Millennium, 53(1), 86-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298241288171 Abstract What is the relationship between war and liberalism? Over the last two decades, an extensive and influential literature inspired by Michel Foucault’s conception of biopolitics has argued that the ‘war on terror’ is defined by distinctly liberal …
Tuominen, I. (2025). ‘The Truth of Oneself’: Governing Homosexual Asylum Seekers Through Confession. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17438721251330732 Abstract This article addresses the question of how the ‘truth’ about homosexual asylum seekers is constituted through legal proceedings, what kinds of subjectivities are produced in the asylum process and how these issues reflect the …
Sorace, C. (2025). Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China. Political Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251323747 Abstract China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic could be described as a lesson directly from the pages of Foucault. For nearly three years, China’s vast state apparatus and society were mobilized around the goal of protecting life until November 2023, when people …
Pan, S., & Mou, Y. (2025). Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners. Social Science Computer Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251340693 Abstract With the growing prevalence and accessibility of AI companions, contemporary women are forming relationships with virtual partners. It is important to examine the relational, social, and gender-related implications of …
Vasiliou, Elena (2025). Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory. Theoretical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806251350622 Abstract Much research on suicide or self-harm in prison settings draws on medical and psychological preventive discourses, rather than engaging with broader social or structural approaches. Such perspectives have been critiqued for leaning toward individualizing, pathologizing, …
Howell, P. (2025). Foucault, Parrhesia and the politics of presence: on not speaking truth to power. Cultural Geographies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241310238 Abstract This paper considers the take-up by geographers and others of Foucault’s late work on parrhesia, the ancient Greek concept of frank or fearless speech. While there has been productive work on its genealogy and …
Vaccarino Bremner, S. (2025), The Relativized A Priori, the Historical A Priori, and the Symbolic Form. Philosophy Compass, 20: e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.70044 ABSTRACT Recent work in philosophy of science has suggested that scientific paradigms in the wake of revolutions can be conceived as relativized a priori frameworks. In this paper, I put these accounts in dialog …
Gavin Rae (2025). From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate. History of the Human Sciences https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251337677 Abstract There has recently been something of a resurgence of interest in the Derrida–Foucault debate, with this leading to a reassessment of its aims, content, and outcome. This article contributes to that endeavor by …
Koncz, L., Boas, A. V., & Candiotto, C. (2025). Spiritual Integration of Migrants: A Lisbon Case Study Within the Common Home Agenda and Polyhedron of Intelligibility Framework. Religions, 16(6), 711. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060711 Abstract Migration is a multidimensional process that reshapes identities and communities. This article adopts a polyhedral framework inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato si’ and …
Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. (2025). Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2532634 ABSTRACT Policies encapsulate distilled values and have good intentions. However, how problems are represented and then interpreted and translated into practice is not always clear. …
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