Patrick Pinkerton, The biopolitics of the migration-development nexus: Governing migration in the UK (2019) Politics, 39 (4), pp. 448-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395718809287 Abstract While politicians in the United Kingdom (UK) have engaged in fractious debate over the appropriate way of responding to the myriad issues arising from the so-called migration or refugee crisis in recent years, there …
Corfee, F., Cox, L., Windsor, C. The constitution of space in intensive care: Power, knowledge and the othering of people experiencing mental illness (2020) Nursing Inquiry, 27 (2), art. no. e12328. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12328 Abstract A sociological conceptualisation of space moves beyond the material to the relational, to consider space as a social process. This paper …
Rantala, A., Heikkilä, M. Agency, guidance and gender–interrelated aspects of early childhood education settings (2020) Education 3-13, 48 (4), pp. 483-493. DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2019.1620305 Abstract Social interaction is one of the many things what preschool life is about, and how social life is constituted is of importance to understand. In early childhood education settings, children are …
Michiel T’Jampens & Jelle Versieren (2020), Entering the Archive: “Il faut défendre la société” and Michel Foucault’s Critical Archeological Inquiry into the History and Method of Genealogy, Critical Horizons, 21 (3): 240–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2020.1790753 ABSTRACT In “Il faut défendre la société”, Foucault attempted to historicize and criticize Nietzsche’s equating of the social with struggle. In order …
Anne E. Martin, Teresa R. Fisher-Ari, and Kara M. Kavanagh, “Our Schools Turned Into Literal Police States.”: Disciplinary Power and Novice Teachers Enduring a Cheating Scandal (2020) Educational Studies – AESA, 56 (3), pp. 306-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2020.1745809 Abstract The voices of teachers experiencing and reacting to highly-publicized testing scandals are rarely heard, despite high-levels of criticism …
Simon Flacks, Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people (2020) Theoretical Criminology, 24 (2), pp. 387-405. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618774036 Abstract Stop and search can harm young people, damage relations between police and the community and alienate ethnic and racial minorities. In Mohidin and another v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis and others, …
Renate Stauss, Passing as Fashionable, Feminine and Sane: “Therapy of Fashion” and the Normalization of Psychiatric Patients in 1960s US (2020) Fashion Theory – Journal of Dress Body and Culture, 24 (4), pp. 601-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2020.1746515 Abstract This article introduces the little-known therapeutic approach of “Therapy of Fashion.” Piloted with a group of female psychiatric patients …
Zhang, A. Chinese Practice of Foucault’s ‘Disciplinary Power’ and its Effects on the Rehabilitation of Female Prisoners in China (2020) British Journal of Criminology, 60 (3), pp. 662-680. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azz068 Abstract The prison system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been viewed by some scholars as effective in achieving the primary target of …
Maev Conneely, Paul Higgs & Joanna Moncrieff, Medicalising the moral: the case of depression as revealed in internet blogs. Social Theory & Health (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00141-1 Abstract Depression is regularly declared to be equivalent to a bodily illness, yet critics have long contested this ‘medical’ view of mental disorders. Following the ideas of Szasz and Foucault, …
Rakesh Sengupta, “Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi.” Theory, Culture & Society, (July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420930276 Abstract Much has been written about how Foucault’s archaeology of the modern episteme, emerging from early 19th-century Europe, was curiously divorced from its context of colonialism. Media archaeology, as Foucault’s legacy, …
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