Ojala, A.-L. Being an athlete and being a young person: Technologies of the self in managing an athletic career in youth ice hockey in Finland (2020) International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 55 (3), pp. 310-326. DOI: 10.1177/1012690218801303 Abstract Engaging in youth sports is a major investment, and it requires choosing and balancing between …
Esmonde, K., Jette, S. Assembling the ‘Fitbit subject’: A Foucauldian-sociomaterialist examination of social class, gender and self-surveillance on Fitbit community message boards (2020) Health (United Kingdom), 24 (3), pp. 299-314. DOI: 10.1177/1363459318800166 Abstract The rise of fitness-tracking devices such as the Fitbit in personal health and wellness is emblematic of the use of data-gathering health …
Paul B. Preciado, Learning from the virus, ArtForum, May/June 2020 Open access IF MICHEL FOUCAULT had survived AIDS in 1984 and had stayed alive until the invention of effective antiretroviral therapy, he would be ninety-three years old today. Would he have agreed to confine himself in his apartment on rue de Vaugirard in Paris? The …
Hofvenschioeld, E., Khodadadi, M. Communication in futures studies: A discursive analysis of the literature (2020) Futures, 115, art. no. 102493, DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2019.102493 Open access Abstract Communication is recognised as an essential part of futures work and yet research on the topic appears to be sporadic. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review …
Reis, Diego dos Santos. Michel Foucault, a gestão dos ilegalismos e a razão criminológica neoliberal. Revista de Filosofia Aurora (PUC-PR), v. 32, n. 55 (2020). DOI: 10.7213/1980-5934.32.055.AO07 Open access RESUMO O presente artigo busca analisar de que modo os problemas da segurança e da economia das punições passam a ser centrais no cálculo político-econômico da …
Cielemęcka, O. Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest (2020) Journal of Gender Studies, 29 (1), pp. 63-75. DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1691981 Abstract This article examines how the ideological and material aspects of ‘purity’ play out in the environmental conflict in the Białowieża Forest that took place in Poland in 2017. I consider …
Shannon Winnubst, The many lives of fungibility: anti-blackness in neoliberal times (2020) Journal of Gender Studies, 29 (1), pp. 102-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1692193 Abstract This article maps the many lives of the concept of fungibility in contemporary theories of both blackness and neoliberalism. Framed by the 2018 political chants across the US against ‘white supremacy’, the article …
Schubert, Karsten (2020): Freedom as critique: Foucault beyond anarchism. Philosophy & Social Criticism. First Published May 7, 2020 DOI: 10.1177/0191453720917733 Authors note: This contains some of the core arguments of my German book Freiheit als Kritik and makes them finally available in English. See also post on author’s blog. Abstract Foucault’s theory of power and …
Christopher Collstedt, Towards a biopolitics of the victimised body: Creating assault as a crime against health and life, c. 1945–1965 (2020) Scandinavian Journal of History, 45 (1), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2019.1596833 Open access Abstract This article discusses the creation of assault as a crime against health and life as this discursive process is expressed through Swedish …
Fella Benabed, Marine heterotopia and odyssean nomadism in Malika Mokeddem’s N’zid (2020) Journal of North African Studies, 25 (1), pp. 100-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2018.1528151 Abstract Malika Mokeddem’s N’zid is a Mediterranean odyssey in which the ship is a heterotopia of emancipation from patriarchal society and dogmatic sedentariness. For Michel Foucault, ‘heterotopia’ is a real place that subverts …
