Stephen J. Ball, Living the Neo-liberal University, European Journal of Education, Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 258–261, September 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12132 Full pdf available on research gate Opening paragraphs ‘Each of my works is a part of my own biography. For one or other reason I had occasion to feel and live those things’ Truth, …
Dawes, S. Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: a response to Downey et al. (2016) Media, Culture and Society, 38 (2), pp. 284-293. DOI: 10.1177/0163443715610922 [Editor’s note: I have posted details of Downey et al’s article below for easy consultation] Abstract Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of …
Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault, Foucault Studies, No. 20, pp. 291-306, December 2015 Foucault Studies is an open access journal. Extract You have been read as an idealist, as a nihilist, as a “new philosopher,” an …
Lawrence D. Berg, Edward H. Huijbens, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University Forthcoming in The Canadian Geographer/le Géographe Canadien Special issue on Critical Reflections on Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography Guest edited by Linda Peake, Kate Parizeau, and Beverley Mullings Draft on Academia.edu Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical analysis …
Foucault 8/13 | Richard R.W. Brooks on Foucault’s “The Birth of Biopolitics” (1979) By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in concrete interactions …
Lars Thorup Larsen & Deborah Stone (2015): “Governing Health Care through Free Choice: Neoliberal Reforms in Denmark and the United States”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 40(5): 941-70. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3161162 Abstract We compare free choice reforms in Denmark and the United States to understand what ideas and political forces could generate such similar …
Conor Heaney, ‘What is the University today?’, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 13 (2), 2015, 287-314 Full PDF here and here Abstract What is the University today? In this paper, a Foucault and Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired approach is taken. I argue that the University is, today, a site of ‘neoliberal governmentality’, which governs students and …
Dirk Postma, Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective, Journal of Education, No. 61, 2015, 31-52 Full text Abstract While the neoliberal order is associated with the economy, government and globalisation, as a form of governmentality it effects a particular subjectivity. The subject is the terrain where the contest of control plays out. The subject …
Foucault 8/13 | François Ewald on Foucault & Neoliberalism Transcribed and edited by Raphaëlle Jean Burns Reviewed and approved by François Ewald [Editors’ Note (Raphaëlle Jean Burns): This is an edited transcription of François Ewald’s talk at Hunter College CUNY on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 2:30-4:00 pm Room 204 Roosevelt House, Hunter College. The talk …
Bahar Aykan and Sanem Güvenç-Salgırlı (2015). Responsibilizing individuals, regulating health: debating public spots, risk, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 53, pp 71-92. DOI:10.1017/npt.2015.19 Abstract: Currently, a mass media campaign is underway in Turkey using a new communication means called the “ public spot” (kamu spotu ). This article concentrates on …
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