Scheel, S. Biopolitical bordering: Enacting populations as intelligible objects of government (2020) European Journal of Social Theory, 23 (4), pp. 571-590. DOI: 10.1177/1368431019900096 Open access Abstract Since Foucault introduced the notion of biopolitics, it has been fiercely debated—usually in highly generalized terms—how to interpret and use this concept. This article argues that these discussions need …
Kovács, G. “I’m all that stands between them and chaos:” A monstrous way of ruling in A Song of Ice and Fire (2020) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7 (1), art. no. 70. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-00562-3 Open access Abstract The article explores Tyrion Lannister’s rule in King’s Landing in the second volume of A Song of …
Sandset, T. The ethical and epistemological pitfalls of translating phylogenetic HIV testing: from patient-centered care to surveillance (2020) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7 (1), art. no. 19. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0522-4 Abstract In both HIV science and public health policy, efforts to end the HIV epidemic are increasingly focusing on molecular HIV surveillance as a helpful …
Jan Krasni, How to hijack a discourse? Reflections on the concepts of post-truth and fake news (2020) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7 (1), art. no. 32. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0527-z Abstract The aim of this paper is threefold: to perform a (meta)discursive archaeology of the concepts post-truth and fake news, to critically reflect on the change in …
Antonelli, V., Bigoni, M., Cafaro, E.M., D’Alessio, R. Railway systems and the ‘Universal Good of the State’: Technologies of government in the nineteenth-century Papal State (2020) Accounting History, 25 (3), pp. 375-402. DOI: 10.1177/1032373219862615 Abstract Informed by Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the article focuses on the nineteenth-century General Commissariat for the Railroad Industry in the …
Druedahl, L.C., Kälvemark Sporrong, S. More than meets the eye: A Foucauldian perspective on treating ADHD with medicine (2020) Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 16 (9), pp. 1201-1207. DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.12.008 Abstract Background: Decision-making for using medicine treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is complex. Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate decision-making …
Daniel Verginelli Galantin, A dimensão literária do diagnóstico do presente em Foucault, Trans/Form/Ação: Revista de Filosofia, v43, n.3 (2020) DOI: 10.1590/0101-3173.2020.v43n3.05.p71 Open access Resumo Neste artigo propomos uma investigação sobre a definição foucaultiana do papel da filosofia enquanto a construção de um diagnóstico do presente. Sustentamos que o pensamento de Foucault em torno à figura …
Johnson, P. Critique as ideology critique in a neoliberal age (2020) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 46 (7), pp. 810-828. DOI: 10.1177/0191453719860229 Abstract Neo-liberalism is not working but carries on regardless. A society and all of its institutions modelled on market logics and imperatives has produced system crisis and has lost widespread popular support. To account …
Louise Owusu-Kwarteng, ‘Whoever holds the scissors wields the power’: An auto/biographical reflection on my ‘Hairstory’ (2020) Women’s Studies International Forum, 82, art. no. 102405 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102405 Abstract This paper provides an auto/biographical account of my hair journey, with specific emphasis on my hairstyle changes, and their ‘inextricable links’ to my identity and self-presentation (Bankhead and Johnson, …
Thomas Ahrens, Laurence Ferry, Rihab Khalifa, Governmentality and counter-conduct: A field study of accounting amidst concurrent and competing rationales and programmes (2020) Management Accounting Research, 48, art. no. 100686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mar.2020.100686 Abstract This paper contributes to the diverse and growing stream of accounting research on Foucault’s notion of counter-conduct, which is broadly concerned with the uses …
