Sonu, D., Benson, J. The quasi-human child: How normative conceptions of childhood enabled neoliberal school reform in the United States (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 230-247. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168259 Abstract This paper argues that normative conceptions of the child, as a natural quasi-human being in need of guidance, enable current school reforms in the United …
Eric Wilson, Precarious Politics, The Blackstone Review, December 2016 Review of State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey, Verso, 2015 […] Using Foucault’s notion of self-governance, Lorey helps to demonstrate how the hustler internalizes the imperative to hustle. Self-governance implies the ways in which a population is made, through a variety of …
John Dowd, Moments that matter: Educational entanglements and ecologies of action (2017) Review of Communication, 17 (1), pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2016.1260761 Abstract In this article, I argue that “the freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves” is intimately entangled with processes of education. To understand this relationship, we need to articulate more fully the …
Jordi Collet-Sabé, ‘I do not like what I am becoming but…’: transforming the identity of head teachers in Catalonia, Journal of Education Policy, Volume 32, 2017 – Issue 2. Pages 141-158 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1253873 Abstract The aim of this article is to elucidate how a new system of school and teacher assessment in Catalonia is transforming the …
Ravinder Sidhu, Navigating unfreedoms and re-imagining ethical counter-conducts: Caring about refugees and asylum seekers, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(3), 294–305. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1225558 Abstract This article uses Foucault’s concept of the care of the self to interrogate the accounts of ethical agency provided by professionals involved in the settlement of refugees, in a global and national context …
Roger Foster, The therapeutic spirit of neoliberalism (2016) Political Theory, 44 (1), pp. 82-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591715594660 Abstract My essay argues that neoliberal forms of government emerged through the shifting political trajectory of the therapeutic ethos in the postwar period in Anglo-American societies. In the postwar era, the therapeutic ethos attracted the attention of conservative cultural critics …
Grégoire Canlorbe and Stephen Hicks, Capitalism versus the Philosophers, FEE: Foundation for Economic Education, 2 May 2016 Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks is the author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, which argues that …
Brendon Murphy, (2015), Zone of Impeachment: A Post-Foucauldian Analysis of Controlled Operations Law and Policy, PhD. University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business & Law, Newcastle Law School Description This thesis presents a Post-Foucauldian analysis of Australian controlled operations law. The purpose was to extend current doctrinal scholarship by exploring the discursive forces that shape this …
Ron Purser and Edwin Ng, Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype, Part One Huffington Post, March 22, 2016 Extract Michel Foucault made an astute observation: “You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked.” Hopefully, management science scholar-practitioners promoting corporate mindfulness …
Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Marx and Neoliberal Subjects, Theory, Culture and Society, February 16, 2015 Daniel Zamora’s edited volume Critiquer Foucault: Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, published in November 2014, has been the subject of a heated debate recently on the philosophical blogosphere. Many Foucault scholars have been puzzled and surprised by the stir it has …
