Chakawata, W. Africa’s response to COVID-19: a governmentality in disguise masterclass? (2022) International Review of Sociology, . DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2028403 Abstract At the risk of oversimplification, virtually all research that scrutinizes COVID-19 is propelled by identical points of departures which chief in their assessment, portray how the pandemic accentuates the likelihood of illiberal or autocratic regimes …
Tim Christiaens (2021), “Against the Republican Foucault: How to Establish an Affirmative Biopolitics of Care”, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 83 (4), 683-709. DOI: 10.2143/TVF.83.4.0000000 Open access link Abstract: In The Republic of the Living, Miguel Vatter argues that, at the end of the 1970s, Michel Foucault did not convert to but criticized neoliberalism from a republican …
Umezurike, U.P. “Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2022) Men and Masculinities, . DOI: 10.1177/1097184X211063498 Abstract This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, …
Wan, S.H. A Spectral Spectacle: Dutch Mannerist Portals at Amsterdam’s New Philanthropic Sites, 1581-1645 (2021) Early Modern Low Countries, 5 (2), pp. 332-365. DOI: 10.51750/EMLC11337 Abstract After Amsterdam’s late medieval Catholic monasteries were surrendered to the Protestant government in 1578, four of these properties were converted into an orphanage, a mental asylum, and two gender-specific …
Jiang, A.L. Identity Work as Ethical Self-Formation: The Case of Two Chinese English-as-Foreign-Language Teachers in the Context of Curriculum Reform (2022) Frontiers in Psychology, 12, art. no. 774759, . DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774759 Abstract Curriculum reform urges teachers to constantly reflect on existing identities and develop probably whole new identities. Yet, in the wake of the poststructuralist …
Discacciati, O. October 1917: A Changing Landscape for Peasant Literature. The Role of the Journal Na postu (2021) Enthymema, (28), pp. 36-50. DOI: 10.54103/2037-2426/16838 Open access Abstract The article analyzes the role of the journal Na Postu in the complicated and in many ways conflictual transition from a peasant literature, in the 1930s declared as …
Mariani, M., Cerdan, C., Peri, I. Cultural biodiversity unpacked, separating discourse from practice (2022) Agriculture and Human Values, . DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10286-y Abstract In this article, we question to what extent origin-food labels, namely Geographical Indications (GIs) and Slow Food Presidia, may effectively account for cultural biodiversity (CB). Building on Foucault’s discourse theory, we question how …
Capocchi, A., Orlandini, P., Pierotti, M., Amelio, S. The nature, roles, uses, and impacts of accounting systems in the Real Liceo of Lucca in the nineteenth century (2022) Accounting History Review DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2021.2025113 Abstract This study aims to advance the literature by examining how accounting systems were used in the management of the Real Liceo …
Dombrowsky, T. Independent Thinking in Nursing: An Archaeology of Knowledge Perspective (2022) The Journal of nursing education, 61 (1), pp. 12-18. DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20211201-01 Abstract BACKGROUND: The topic of thinking was not widely discussed in nursing literature until the 1960s. At that time, the nursing process entered nursing literature, and later, in the 1980s, critical thinking …
McCormick, W. Polarities of the Human and Divine: Aquinas and Schmitt on Political Theology (2022) American Journal of Political Science, 66 (1), pp. 93-105. DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12608 Abstract The investigations of Carl Schmitt yielded an influential but partial recovery of the term “political theology.” In this article, I consider Schmitt’s tendentious reduction of political theology to …
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