Jim Denison & Joseph P. Mills (2014) Planning for distance running: coaching with Foucault, Sports Coaching Review, 3:1, 1-16, DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2014.953005 Abstract Coaching and sport scholars working from a Foucauldian perspective (e.g. Barker-Ruchti & Tinning, 2010; Denison, 2007; Heikkala, 1993; Johns & Johns, 2000) have demonstrated how overly controlling and disciplining training practices can objectify …
Romanowski, M.H., Alkhateeb, H. Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education (2022) Higher Education Policy DOI: 10.1057/s41307-022-00264-2 Abstract This essay aims to problematize US accreditation of teacher education. Foucault’s notion of problematization is used as a theoretical framework to explain how accreditation emerged in the past as a solution to perceived educational problems and how and why …
Denison, Jim. “Social Theory for Coaches: A Foucauldian Reading of One Athlete’s Poor Performance.” International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 2, no. 4 (December 2007): 369–83. https://doi.org/10.1260/174795407783359777. Abstract This paper explores my “sense making” when a male cross-country runner was coaching performed below expectation. My initial understanding of his poor performance was to blame …
Meloni, M. An unproblematized truth: Foucault, biopolitics, and the making of a sociological canon (2022) Social Theory and Health DOI: 10.1057/s41285-022-00177-5 Abstract Foucault’s argument that a major break occurred in the nature of power in the European Eighteenth century—an unprecedented socialization of medicine and concern for the health of bodies and populations, the birth of …
Patrão, A. Foucault’s Relation With Architecture: The Interest of His Disinterest (2022) Architecture and Culture DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2022.2046395 Abstract For over half a century, the works of Michel Foucault have famously exerted tremendous influence upon practicing architects and theoreticians alike. But what of the role architecture played for the French philosopher, who rarely addressed architecture exclusively …
Karmakar, G., Sarkar, J. Virus and Visible Reality: Biopolitics, Crime, and Disability in Peter May’s Lockdown (2021) NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 9 (18), pp. 306-323. Abstract This paper examines Peter May’s crime novel Lockdown (2020) to explain how a bioengineered virus cripples London and results in a crime, the denouement of which …
Ambrosio, J. Problematizing truth-telling in a post-truth world: Foucault, parrhesia, and the psycho-social subject (2022) Educational Philosophy and Theory DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2034619 Abstract The study examines how truth-tellers and truth-telling can be cultivated in the context of post-truth politics in the U.S. Following Foucault, it is not concerned with examining the problem of truth, with the …
Hunt, R.A., Palmieri, A., Muñoz, J.U. A symptomatic reading of the coronavirus as a neoliberal production: political science and psychoanalytic reflections of post-foundational episteme [Una lectura sintomal del coronavirus como producción neoliberal: reflexiones politológicas y psicoanalíticas de episteme posfundacional] (2021) Discusiones Filosoficas, 22 (38), pp. 59-76. DOI: 10.17151/diil.2021.22.38.5 Abstract This work seeks to establish the …
Aboim, S. ‘What’s in a name?’ The discursive construction of gender identity over time (2022) Journal of Gender Studies DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2022.2038547 Abstract In recent years the concern with gender diversity fuelled by the rapid expansion of transgender studies highlighted multiple possibilities for constructing gender through discursive enactments. As the self-declaration of gender identity gained legitimacy, …
Huber, G. Exercising power in autoethnographic vignettes to constitute critical knowledge (2022) Organization DOI: 10.1177/13505084221079006 Abstract This article shows how autoethnographic vignettes can be used as a reflexive tool to problematize the power relations in which organizational ethnographers participate when doing and representing their fieldwork. Foucault’s analysis of the ethical self-formation process provides the impetus …
