Larocque, C., Foth, T. Which lives are worth saving? Biolegitimacy and harm reduction during COVID-19 (2021) Nursing Inquiry DOI: 10.1111/nin.12417 Open access Abstract Despite the promise to save every life, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and racial inequalities, precarious living conditions, and engendered an exponential increase in overdose deaths. Although some lives are considered …
Wagner, A., Matulewska, A., & Marusek, S. “Pandemica Panoptica: Biopolitical Management of Viral Spread in the Age of Covid-19.” International journal for the semiotics of law = Revue internationale de semiotique juridique, 1-37. 4 Feb. 2021, doi:10.1007/s11196-021-09821-1 Abstract The current pandemic period has triggered a series of changes in society, at both individual and collective …
Riemann, M. “As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary (2021) Journal of Global Security Studies, 6 (1). DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogz069 Abstract IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the ahistorical and ahistoricist assumptions pervading the discipline. Specifically, attention has been turned to those concepts, actors, and practices that appear to be without history and …
Häberlen, J.C. Spiritual Politics: New Age and New Left in West Germany around 1980 (2021) European History Quarterly, 51 (2), pp. 239-261. DOI: 10.1177/02656914211004441 Open access Abstract In the late 1970s, an increasing number of West German ‘alternative’ leftist authors and activists turned to spiritual ideas. A milieu that had once been characterized by what …
De Sá, F. Z.; Gastal, S. A.(2021).Mobility, immobility and a-mobility: to discuss tourism in COVID-19 times. Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo, São Paulo,15(1), 2144. http://dx.doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v15i1.2144 Open access Abstract Mobility has been revisited in recent years, associated with the themes of space, time, territory, and place, but rarely involving Tourism more directly. Analyzing Tourism under …
Dix, G. Incentivization: From the current proliferation to the (re)problematization of incentives (2020) Economy and Society, 49 (4), pp. 642-663. DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2020.1774256 Abstract Incentives are so widespread and seemingly so insignificant that we might simply take them at face value and fail to ask how we can account for their emergence and proliferation. Building upon …
Stephen J. Ball & Emiliano Grimaldi (2021) Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2021.1963980 ABSTRACT This article explores some aspects of the relation between neoliberalisation and the increasing use of digital technologies in school classrooms. It does this in relation to a specific case – a specific school, classroom …
Garlen, J.C., Chang-Kredl, S., Farley, L., Sonu, D. Childhood innocence and experience: Memory, discourse and practice (2020) Children and Society. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12428 Abstract This article examines how childhood innocence is taken up in (92) memories of undergraduate students across four sites in the US and Canada. Drawing from Foucault’s theory of discourse, we examine how …
Kingston, S. Parent involvement in education? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters (2021) Power and Education, 13 (2), pp. 58-72. DOI: 10.1177/17577438211011623 Abstract The Ontario Ministry of Education (2010) puts forth parent involvement as a solution for underachievement and as a resource for building better schools. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters reveals …
Cornish, C. The paradox of BKSB assessments and functional skills: the experiences of ‘disengaged’ youth on an employability course in a further education college (2021) Journal of Further and Higher Education DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2021.1945001 Abstract Self-governance and responsibilisation are integral to Basic Key Skills Builder (BKSB) assessments and Functional Skills qualifications. However, very little is known …
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