Ben Anderson, Affect and biopower: Towards a politics of life, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 28-43 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00441.x Abstract In this paper I stage an encounter between two concepts that have become popular placeholders for a broad concern with a politics of life: affect and biopower. Through …
Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 14 A Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki Issue 14 also includes: A previously unpublished interview with Michel Foucault from 1978 three original articles, eight book reviews and a response to an article previously published in …
Springer, S. Neoliberalism as discourse: Between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism, Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 2012, Pages 133-147 https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.656375 Abstract Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the …
Rogers, D. Research, practice, and the space between: Care of the self within neoliberalized institutions, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 242-254 https://doi.org/10.1177/153270861244025 Abstract This article challenges the neoliberal discourse of “instrumental rationality” that is encroaching on theories of qualitative research, critical reflection, and subjectivity. I return to Foucault’s …
Wouter Mensink, ‘Subject of innovation, or: how to redevelop the patient with technology’. PhD thesis, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2012. Pdf of thesis on University of Leiden library site Author’s blog Abstract People are shaped in many ways: as subject of scientific inquiry, as part of a political category or in relations with others. …
Terry Flew, ‘Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates’, Thesis Eleven, February 2012 vol. 108 no. 1 44-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136114214 Abstract Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich von …
Martina Tazzioli, Politiche della verità. Michel Foucault e il neoliberalismo Ombre Corte, 2011 Si può parlare di una funzione critica del liberalismo inteso come “stile governamentale” e non (solo) come tecnologia di potere? Fino a che punto, tuttavia, è possibile mantenere quest’attitudine critica dal momento che il liberalismo contemporaneo si struttura in un “regime di …
Bay, U. (2011). “Unpacking neo-liberal technologies of government in Australian higher education social work departments”. Journal of social work, 11 (2), p. 222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017310386696 Abstract The Summary: This article analyses how neo-liberal and managerialist policies, over the last two decades in Australia, have positioned university staff as self-managing individuals. Social work academics are positioned as …
Call for papers: Panel on Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance Part of the 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis. The conference for 2012 is titled ‘Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation’. The International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis has travelled through Europe. After visiting Birmingham, Amsterdam, Essex, Kassel, Grenoble and Cardiff, …
“Rethinking the Self: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Bioethical and Biopolitical Concerns” Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, April 10-12, 2012. Keynote speakers include Prof. Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and Dr. Jenny Slatman, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. This international and interdisciplinary symposium addresses how cultural, medical and political understandings of the self …
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