Andrew, M. (2024). Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education. In: Rudolph, J., Crawford, J., Sam, CY., Tan, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54509-2_3 Abstract This chapter demonstrates how higher and vocational education have long faced and continue to face a more insidious crisis than COVID: …
Baciu, Elena-Loreni , Lazăr, Theofild-Andrei , Totan, Raluca Iunia, Social goals under a neoliberal agenda: measures to promote equality in European higher education read through a Foucauldian lens, Frontiers in Sociology, vol 10, 2025 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1492863 Abstract In this study we draw on Foucault’s work on governmentality and examine the power dynamics involved in establishing and …
Xu, P., & Ritchie, J. Neoliberalism, citizenship, and young children: Exploring discursive constructions of citizenship in early childhood curricula in China and Aotearoa New Zealand. (2025) Global Studies of Childhood https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106241311639 Abstract As an entitlement to rights, well-being and equity, young children’s citizenship lays the foundation for a democratic, just and sustainable world. This article …
Presentación de la edición especial de Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana, Vol. 45 Núm. 131 (2024): Michel Foucault en Latinoamérica: 40 años de ontologías del presente En el marco del World Congress Foucault: 40 years after los coeditores invitados Nelson F. Roberto-Alba y Luis F. Blengino se complacen en presentar a la comunidad académica la edición …
Urošević, Milan. 2024. “Therapy culture and the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism.” Philosophy and Society https://doi.org/10.2298/FID240220005U ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and the phenomena of “therapy culture”. We define therapy culture as a consequence of the spread of ideas, discourses, and practices from psychology and psychotherapy into various realms of society. Previous …
Mavelli, L., Cerella, A. Neoliberalism Against Society? Spontaneous Order and Governance of Desire in Digital Societies (2024) Critical Sociology DOI: 10.1177/08969205241287067 Open access Abstract Critical scholarship often argues that neoliberalism has caused the ‘crisis’ or ‘destruction’ of society. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power as ‘productive’ and focusing on digital societies, we argue that neoliberalism …
Simon, J.‘After Neoliberalism’ and on the ‘Dark Side’? Governmentality and Counter-Conduct in Times of Growing Autocratisation (2024) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2401552 Open access Abstract The political world today in many ways seems vastly different from the context in which the concepts of governmentality and counter-conduct were initially elaborated by Foucault in the late 1970s. Especially …
Rudnyckyj, D. The Protestantism of neoliberalism (2024) Culture, Theory and Critique, . DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2024.2313602 Abstract This essay illuminates the affinity between of Protestantism and neoliberalism. Drawing on the insights of Max Weber and Michel Foucault, the essay demonstrates how both Protestantism and neoliberalism are premised on a common set of norms and ethical practices. In …
Michael-Luna, S.C., Castner, D.J. Rising Authoritarian Practice in Early Childhood Curriculum: A Case Study (2024) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, . DOI: 10.1177/15327086241271898 Abstract Amid the ideological shift from democratic neoliberalism to authoritarian neoliberalism, spearheaded by right-wing Christian nationalists, early childhood educational policy has become a weapon in the “culture war” in many parts of …
Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty. Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy, Columbia University Press, 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the …
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