Chipango, E.F. Political ecologies of energy poverty in Zimbabwe (2022) GeoJournal DOI: 10.1007/s10708-021-10566-4 Abstract Studies that attribute energy poverty to a lack of technical resources abound in Zimbabwe. However, such line of reasoning falls short of giving a rigorous analysis of the existing political-economic factors and scalar politics. These include power dynamics, gender relations, class, …
Cos, J.C.C.G. Space___Between: Remnants of a city as catalysts for change (2021) Cidades, (43), pp. 22-33. DOI: 10.15847/cct.24114 Abstract It all starts with a question… Or perhaps too many. What can be done with the remnants of any given city? Can they be transformed to create a shared, cohesive, and productive urban environment? Understanding that …
Galis & Makrygianni Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory (2022) Political Geography, 95, art. no. 102599 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102599 Abstract Migrants’ engagement with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) reveals a wide spectrum of resistance practices that enact “heterotopias” (Foucault, 1967) that extend from the human body to transnational landscapes …
Sánchez-Pinilla, M.D., González, D.J.D. Punitive rationalities. An epistemology for the objectification and historicity of punishment policies [Racionalidades punitivas. Una epistemología para la objetivación y la historicidad de las políticas del castigo] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 131-157. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1358 Open access Abstract Michel Foucault’s idea of rationality does not refer to a universal criterion of reason …
Vallentin, S., Murillo, D. Ideologies of Corporate Responsibility: From Neoliberalism to “varieties of Liberalism” (2021) Business Ethics Quarterly DOI: 10.1017/beq.2021.43 Abstract Critical scholarship often presents corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a reflection or embodiment of neoliberalism. Against this sort of sweeping political characterization we argue that CSR can indeed be considered a liberal concept but …
Nørup, I., Jacobsen, B. Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty (2021) Social Policy and Administration DOI: 10.1111/spol.12784 Abstract Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up …
Spicksley, K. Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation (2021) British Journal of Sociology of Education DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.2003183 Abstract This article reports findings from a small-scale research project which explored the professional identities of early career teachers working in primary academies in England. During interviews and focus groups, these new teachers resisted identifying as …
Simoncini, A. Reading capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx. [Leer El capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx] (2021) Arete, 33 (2), pp. 367-388. DOI: 10.18800/arete.202102.008 Open access Abstract Foucault and Benjamin exploited different themes and categories from Marx’s Capital, in accordance with their topics of interest and theoretical and political options. Foucault concentrated on the analysis of the relations …
Hao, A.X. Make this tango viral: Touching toward the untouchable in tele-synaesthesia performance (2021) Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 8 (2-3), pp. 237-266. DOI: 10.1386/JCCA_00046_1 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncanny rift between tact and touch as it expands the virtual towards its potential. Layer upon layer of new information has been repeatedly …
Jusmet, L.R. Constructing oneself as an ethical subject for a true life: The proposals of Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault and François Jullien [Construirse como sujeto ético para una vida verdadera. Las propuestas de Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault y François Jullien] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 159-172. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1372 Abstract This work analyses the line of thought …
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