Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball (eds), Neoliberalism and Education, Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means …
Carol Carpenter, Power in Conservation. Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern …
Min Lin & Weili Zhao (2023) Untangling the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers through neoliberal, Confucian, and affective technologies: with and beyond Foucault, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2023.2174074 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers along and beyond a Foucauldian governmentality lens, untangling how the three …
Jubas, K. More than a Confessional Mo(ve)ment? #MeToo’s Pedagogical Tensions (2022) Adult Education Quarterly DOI: 10.1177/07417136221134782 Abstract In this article, I explore the pedagogical function of #MeToo, highlighting what it might teach about gender-based mistreatment and mainstreamed feminism. I begin by reviewing linkages between adult education and social movements, then trace the development of #MeToo, …
Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball, The neoliberal dispositif: understanding the transformation of the social and ethical space of education, In Editor(s): Robert J Tierney, Fazal Rizvi, Kadriye Erkican, International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), Elsevier, 2023,Pages 60-69, ISBN 9780128186299, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.01009-5. Abstract: In this article we examine some of the difficulties that surround the understanding …
Fay, W. Neoliberalism and Radical Rights: On the Work and Theory of Law and Organising (2022) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law DOI: 10.1007/s11196-022-09931-4 Abstract This article aims to contribute to scholarship regarding the critique of rights through the examination of the role of rights discourse in the furtherance of what is generally termed …
Siniša Malešević (2022) Are We All Foucauldians Now? “Culture Wars” and the Poststructuralist Legacy, Critical Review DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2122171 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault’s philosophy has recently come under sharp criticism across the political spectrum. While right-wing and centrist commentators identify Foucault as the intellectual progenitor of “woke” dogmatism and an irrationalist hostility to science, left-wing critics associate …
Ilott, Luke. “Generalizing Resistance: The Coalition Politics of Foucault’s Governmentality Lectures.” The Review of Politics, 2022, 1–25. doi:10.1017/S0034670522000882. Abstract This article interprets Michel Foucault as a thinker of political coalition. While Foucault is often associated with a localist “micro-politics,” he also sought to help dispersed struggles “generalize” themselves into bigger, cohesive movements. Foucault gave his …
Strassheim, J. (2022). Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model. Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221119726 Abstract Contrary to widespread assumptions, post-truth politicians formally adopt a rhetoric of ‘truth’ but turn it against established experts. To explain one central factor behind this destructive strategy and its success with voters, I consider Walter Lippmann and Friedrich …
Jackson, B. Putting Neoliberalism in Its Place (2022) Modern Intellectual History, 19 (3), pp. 982-995. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244321000032 Abstract Neoliberalism is an ideal subject for intellectual historians. It is an ideological movement that has been both theoretically sophisticated and influential, ensuring that excursions along the highways and byways of neoliberal thought can always be justified practically, …
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