M. Alejandra Energici, José Antonio Román B., Claudio Ramos Z. y Sebastián Ibarra G., Solidaridad en la gubernamentalidad liberal avanzada: un análisis en piezas publicitarias, Polis, Revista Latinoamerica, 32, 2012 https://journals.openedition.org/polis/6619 Resúmenes El artículo presenta una reflexión sobre la manera en que en los últimos veinte años la promoción de un determinado tipo de solidaridad …
Stuart J. Murray, Allegories of the Bioethical: Reading J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year, Journal of Medical Humanities, 35, 321–334 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9273-9 Abstract This essay reads J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Diary of a Bad Year, as an occasion to problematize contemporary bioethical (and neoliberal) paradigms. Coetzee’s rhetorical strategies are analyzed to better understand the “scene …
Rebecca Raby, Children’s participation as neo-liberal governance? (2014) Discourse, 35 (1), pp. 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.739468 Abstract Children’s participation initiatives have been increasingly introduced within various institutional jurisdictions around the world, partly in response to Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Such initiatives have been critically evaluated from a number …
Sam Binkley, Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life, SUNY Press, 2014. Summary Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory. Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in the phenomenon of happiness, as evidenced by self-help books, talk shows, spiritual mentoring, business management, and relationship counseling. At the …
Association Tunisienne des Etudes Philosophiques Michel Foucault trente ans après Les 17, 18 et 19 mars 2014 à l’Hôtel Marina Palace Hammamet Tunisie Avec le soutien de : Ministère de la Culture et de la sauvegarde du patrimoine, L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, La Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis, L’Ecole Normale …
Life and Debt: Living through the Financialisation of the Biosphere Philip Mirowski keynote for ‘Life and Debt’ conference Comments on Foucault at around the 14 minute mark Published on Aug 18, 2013 Update September 2025: This lecture is no longer on YouTube. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback machine How …
Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times Call for Contributions Deborah Brock, editor dbrock@yorku.ca PDF Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times is a ‘sequel’ to my sole edited (Nelson 2003) publication, Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada. However, it differs from the 2003 edition in a number of respects, most notably, it …
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Yahya M. Madra, Fikret Adaman, Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms: De-Politicisation Through Economisation (2013) Antipode, 46: 691-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12065 Abstract This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post-war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post-Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault’s reading …
Adrian Guta, Stephanie A. Nixon, Michael G. Wilson, Resisting the seduction of “ethics creep”: Using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review (2013) Social Science and Medicine, 98, pp. 301-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.019 Abstract In this paper we examine “ethics creep”, a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of …
