Hassan, N.R., Lowry, P.B., Mathiassen, L. Useful Products in Information Systems Theorizing: A Discursive Formation Perspective (2022) Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23 (2), pp. 418-446. DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00730 Abstract Although there is a growing understanding of theory building in the information systems (IS) field, what constitutes IS theory remains the subject of intense …
Fathzadeh, F. Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway (2022) Women’s Studies International Forum, 92, art. no. 102577, . DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102577 Abstract With reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of power and freedom, this article draws on narrative interviews with Iranian immigrant women living in Norway to explore …
Lorek-Jezińska, E., Strehlau, N., Więckowska, K. Altering Authorships: Absences and Presences of Authors in Contemporary Culture (2021) Avant, 12 (3) DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.07 Abstract This article serves as an introduction to the anthology devoted to the study of altering author-ships in contemporary literature and culture. Drawing attention to the influence of Roland Barthes’s and Michel Foucault’s …
Brara, Rita. “Introduction: What Might We Mean by the Anthropocene?” Contributions to Indian Sociology 55, no. 3 (October 2021): 307–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211073723. Abstract ‘[T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.’ (Michel Foucault 1977: 27) …
van Wijk, Berend. “Beyond the Entrepreneur Society: Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Critical Attitude.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, June 2021, doi:10.1177/01914537211017589. Abstract Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics is generally acknowledged as a pioneering study of neoliberalism, presenting it not merely as an economic theory but also as a mode of government. There is much debate, …
Schultz, D.J. (2022), Revolutionary Spectatorship and Subalternity: Foucault In Iran. History & Theory. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12249 ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a novel reading of Michel Foucault’s Iranian writings and probe their unexplored linkages with longstanding historiographical debates. I argue that these writings run headlong into the conceptual aporias of political modernity by contesting the assumed …
Carlos Palacios, Skeptically Self-governed Citizens: The ‘Volunteer!’ Injunction as a Predicament of Neoliberal Life (2022) Citizenship Studies DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2022.2053837 Abstract The idea that anyone, with the right critical knowledge and a certain amount of spare time and resources, could become a globally responsible citizen has been skeptically questioned at least since the time of Rousseau. …
Collier, Stephen J, and Andrew Lakoff. “Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency.” Theory, Culture & Society 32, no. 2 (March 2015): 19–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276413510050. Abstract This article describes the historical emergence of vital systems security, analyzing it as a significant mutation in biopolitical modernity. The story begins in the early 20th century, …
Saunders, N., Al-Om, T. Slow Resistance: Resisting the Slow Violence of Asylum (2022) Millennium: Journal of International Studies DOI: 10.1177/03058298211066339 Abstract In this article we seek to expand on the developing interest in Slow Violence and how it relates to immigration and asylum, by exploring how such violence is resisted. Following Foucault’s insight that in …
Jesse Swann-Quinn, More-than-human government and the Tbilisi zoo flood Geoforum, Volume 102, 2019,Pages 167-181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.007. Abstract: On 17 June 2015, an unprecedented series of rain events caused a wall of water to tear through an affluent urban neighborhood in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The flood damaged 700 homes, displaced 67 families, killed 19 people, left …
