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News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Beattie, L., Educational leadership: Producing docile bodies? A Foucauldian perspective on Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly. 2020; 74: 98– 110. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12218 Open access Abstract The aim of this paper is to contribute to a long‐standing critical tradition in the educational leadership literature through an analytical examination of the idiosyncrasies of leadership in Higher Education institutions …

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Moreno Pestaña, J.L. Oedipus Rex as a philosophical and political strategy (2020) Sociological Review, 68 (5), pp. 1092-1107. DOI: 10.1177/0038026119900117 Abstract This article studies Michel Foucault’s interpretation of the tragedy Oedipus Rex. The analysis seeks to uncover the various intellectual strategies around his study. First, Foucault takes a position in the political debate about prisons …

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Special Issue: Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. A Rethinking Marxism Dossier | Summer 2020 Foucault related articles in this large issue include The Multitude Divided: Biopolitical Production during the Coronavirus Pandemic Stijn De Cauwer & Tim Christiaens The Biopolitics of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Herd Immunity, Thanatopolitics, Acts of Heroism Ali Rıza Taşkale & Christina …

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Foth, T. (2020). Humanitarian reason and the movement for overdose prevention sites: The NGOization of the Opioid “Crisis”. Nursing Philosophy, First published: 11 August 2020 doi:10.1111/nup.12324 Abstract In August 2017, a group of activists erected in Ottawa’s downtown a tent as a first overdose prevention site as a response to what the public and the …

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Gillespie, L. Laws of Inclusion and Exclusion: Nomos, Nationalism and the Other (2020) Law and Critique, 31 (2), pp. 163-181. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-020-09264-w Abstract This article explores how and why contemporary nationalist ‘defence leagues’ in Australia and the UK invoke fantasies of law. I argue these fantasies articulate with Carl Schmitt’s theory of ‘nomos’, which holds …

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Kester, J. Security in transition(s): The low-level security politics of electric vehicle range anxiety (2019) Security Dialogue, 50 (6), pp. 547-563. Cited 1 time. DOI: 10.1177/0967010619871443 Abstract By drawing on critical security studies in the context of a sociotechnical transition, this article calls for more attention to the presence and sometimes alternative use of mostly …

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Sarah Pedigo Kulzer & Ryan Phillips, Those Who Must Die: Syrian Refugees in the Age of National Security (2020) Human Rights Review, 21 (2), pp. 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-020-00582-1 Abstract The purpose of this study is to deconstruct the language used in President Trump’s Facebook posts while on the campaign trail, and the subsequent comments which reiterate …

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Craig Wight, A. Visitor perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A social media analysis (2020) Tourism Management, 81, art. no. 104142. DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104142 Abstract This study presents a netnographic discourse analysis of social media content generated around three high profile European Holocaust heritage sites: Ann Frank’s House in Amsterdam, The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, …

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Bhattacharya, S. Monsters in the dark: the discovery of Thuggee and demographic knowledge in colonial India (2020) Palgrave Communications, 6 (1), art. no. 78. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0458-8 Open access Abstract The thugs have been one of the most lasting images in the portrayal of India in Western imagination. Although several scholars have questioned the authenticity of …

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Danisha Jenkins, Dave Holmes, Candace Burton, Stuart J. Murray, ‘This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State’: Nursing, ethics, and the immigrant detention apparatus (2020) Nursing inquiry, p. e12358. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12358 Abstract This paper opens with first-hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detainees, in the custody of U.S. Immigration and …

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