Václav Rut (2023) Václav Havel’s Search for Emancipatory Governmentality, Critical Horizons, DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2262342 ABSTRACT This paper deals with the political philosophy of Václav Havel, mainly its relation to ethics and what Michel Foucault called governmentality. Besides using his analytical framework, Foucault’s politics are engaged with to highlight similar trajectories of two intellectuals dealing with related …
Anfinson, K. Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition (2023) American Political Science Review, 117 (3), pp. 927-939. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422001034 Abstract The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s …
Nicolas Gane, (2023). Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation. Theory, Culture & Society, 40(3), 63–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113727 Abstract This article addresses a little-known event in the history of neoliberalism: a conference at Stanford University held in 1982 to reconsider Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means’ The Modern Corporation and Private Property 50 years after its initial …
Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …
Morag Carol Paton, Carving Space for Staff Agency in a Faculty of Medicine: A Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis of administrative staff and faculty relations, PhD. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2023 Abstract Administrative staff in higher education have been described as invisible (Eveline, 2004; Szekeres, 2004) and often characterized as being “non-academic, …
Sunendar, D., Adriany, V. ‘It’s all about the product’: doing research in neoliberal times in Indonesian higher education (2023) Globalisation, Societies and Education DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2023.2212438 Abstract This article explores Indonesian academics’ experiences in navigating the research process amidst the pressure of neoliberal ideology in higher education institutions in the country. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality, …
Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International Educators, Jun …
Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre: Macron and Civil War in France, Diakritik, 1 mai 2023 English translation by Colin Gordon (PDF) French original in Diakritik We say a lot of bad things about Macron and the recent forced passage through France’s parliament of the pensions reform law. He is said to …
Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre: Macron et la guerre civile en France, Diakritik, 1 mai 2023 On dit beaucoup de mal de Macron à propos du passage en force de la réforme des retraites. On le dit égotiste, arrogant et tout sauf habile. On oublie qu’il est l’homme de la situation, …
Colloque: La gouvernementalité : histoire et usages d’un concept fuyant Du jeudi 11 au vendredi 12 mai 2023 Sur place et en ligne 425, rue De La Gauchetière Est Montréal (Québec) H2L 2M7 90e Congrès de l’Acfas Le 90e Congrès de l’Acfas, organisé en collaboration avec l’Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal et Polytechnique Montréal Parmi …
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