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Academic freedom and the eye of power: the politics and poetics of open enclosures
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-13)
Transparency is both a powerful idea and a technology of power associated with accountability, justice and democracy, which opposes the secretive and shadowy power of surveillance wielded by states and corporations. This ...
The art of democracy: constitutive power and the limits of dissensus
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-10-03)
This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy, whereby consensualpractices are equated with political abdication. This way of framing ...
Refiguring childhood: Hannah Arendt, natality, and prefigurative biopolitics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-18)
Arendt s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine prefigurative forms of biopolitics, both past and present. These are practices that seek to actualise ...
On power, habitus, and (in)civility: Foucault meets Elias meets Bauman in the playground
(Routledge, 2008)
Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originallydesigned to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the ...
Doping and anti-doping: the excesses of enterprise and the tyranny of transparency
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19406940.2015.1063529, 2015-07-06)
Building
on Foucault s theory of the enterprise society , this article situates the use
of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in the wider socio-economic context,
where generalised competition has become a strategic ...
Governing the future: citizenship as technology, empowerment as technique
(Sage Journals, 2011)
This article examines how citizenship can be deployed as a technology of conduct, and how it combines with the technique of empowerment in instituting the behavioural norms that constitute a neo-liberal social order. It ...
The disfigured ontology of figurational sociology: Norbert Elias and the question of violence
(Sage, 2012)
This article scrutinises Norbert Elias s figurational sociology byfocusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is onthe inherent tension between Elias s stance of normative neutralityand detachment, ...
Childhood, biosocial power, and the anthropological machine : life as a governable process?
(Maney Online, 2014-11)
This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of biosocial power, which is shown to be a ...
The new wave of childhood studies: breaking the grip of bio-social dualism?
(Sage Journals, 2012)
The article takes as its starting point a new wave of researchers who use concepts such as 'hybridity' and 'multiplicity' in a bid to move the study of childhood beyond the strictures of what Lee and Motzkau call 'bio-social ...
Gellner's genealogy of the open society: biopolitics as fragment and remainder
(Sage, 2015)
A decade before Foucault began to work with the related concepts of biopolitics and biopower, Gellner posed a series of questions which are suggestive of a similar line of inquiry. Gellner did not pursue this strand of his ...