Pan, S., & Mou, Y. (2025). Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners. Social Science Computer Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251340693 Abstract With the growing prevalence and accessibility of AI companions, contemporary women are forming relationships with virtual partners. It is important to examine the relational, social, and gender-related implications of …
Vasiliou, Elena (2025). Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory. Theoretical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806251350622 Abstract Much research on suicide or self-harm in prison settings draws on medical and psychological preventive discourses, rather than engaging with broader social or structural approaches. Such perspectives have been critiqued for leaning toward individualizing, pathologizing, …
Howell, P. (2025). Foucault, Parrhesia and the politics of presence: on not speaking truth to power. Cultural Geographies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241310238 Abstract This paper considers the take-up by geographers and others of Foucault’s late work on parrhesia, the ancient Greek concept of frank or fearless speech. While there has been productive work on its genealogy and …
Vaccarino Bremner, S. (2025), The Relativized A Priori, the Historical A Priori, and the Symbolic Form. Philosophy Compass, 20: e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.70044 ABSTRACT Recent work in philosophy of science has suggested that scientific paradigms in the wake of revolutions can be conceived as relativized a priori frameworks. In this paper, I put these accounts in dialog …
Gavin Rae (2025). From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate. History of the Human Sciences https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251337677 Abstract There has recently been something of a resurgence of interest in the Derrida–Foucault debate, with this leading to a reassessment of its aims, content, and outcome. This article contributes to that endeavor by …
Koncz, L., Boas, A. V., & Candiotto, C. (2025). Spiritual Integration of Migrants: A Lisbon Case Study Within the Common Home Agenda and Polyhedron of Intelligibility Framework. Religions, 16(6), 711. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060711 Abstract Migration is a multidimensional process that reshapes identities and communities. This article adopts a polyhedral framework inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato si’ and …
Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. (2025). Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2532634 ABSTRACT Policies encapsulate distilled values and have good intentions. However, how problems are represented and then interpreted and translated into practice is not always clear. …
Tarusarira, J., & Wabule, A. (2025). The continuity of military identity in civilian work-places: former Ugandan soldiers in Uganda. Critical Military Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2025.2488538 ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how Ugandan ex-soldiers deploy different military practices in civilian workplaces in Uganda and how these practices continue to define them as former military personnel. The …
Constanza Ulriksen Moretti, Genealogy And Circulation of the Smart Cities Concept in Chile: An Urban Policy Failure? Finisterra, LX(128), 2025, e36321 ABSTRACT Although studies describe the circulation of the Smart Cities (SC) concept in Chile, research on how this concept emerges in the Chilean context remains scarce. Drawing on the policy mobility approach and Foucault’s …
Atkinson-Ross, C., & Wu, W. (2025). Inside the Chinese heterosexual matrix: lesbian and gay middle leaders’ experiences in Chinese schools. Gender and Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506356 ABSTRACT This paper employs feminist poststructuralist and queer theory to analyze the experiences of three gay and lesbian middle leaders in Chinese schools. Drawing on Butler’s heterosexual matrix, and Foucault’s …
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