pathologization and with it anthropological marginalization, exclusion, exile. Michel Foucault elegantly reminds of the brutality that soi-disant humanisms – Marxist, Nazi, Stalinist – could justify (1997: 314). Closer to the thematics that the contributors
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Katrin Röder and Christoph Singer
contentment and pleasure as well as the role of desire) not only as words but also as discourses. Michel Foucault's work on the genealogy of ethics offers a productive framework for the exploration of the many ways in which early modern texts negotiate
“Farmers Don't Dance”
The Construction of Gender in a Rural Scottish School
Fiona G. Menzies and Ninetta Santoro
position to occupy rather than a fixed role” ( McRae 1996: 242 ). We draw here on the work of Foucault (1974 , 1980 , 1981 ) and Judith Butler (1990 , 2004) to offer insight into how and why pupils take up gendered positions in school. Of particular
Diana Espírito Santo
successful making of people and other composites. I will follow Karen Barad’s (2007) critique of Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, where Foucault is shown to restrict the productivity of power and discipline to the domain of the ‘social’. What we
Elisabeth Timm and Patrick Laviolette
(e)uropean corporeal ways of knowing and being, these parallel formats take us straight into concerns that are very much of significance to the 21st century. The body as analytical category has never been neutral as such. Even before Michel Foucault, ethnologists
Patrick McEvoy
extracting new concepts from it as well. Following Bourdieu, she describes an artisan habitus, incorporating her own concept of “synesthetic reasoning,” which cheesemakers use to guide their production. Similarly, she finds Foucault’s biopolitics operating
Making Multitemporality with Houses
Time Trickery, Ethical Practice and Energy Demand in Postcolonial Britain
Roxana Moroşanu
original windows, in relation to ideas about morality in English middle-class thought ( Strathern 1992 ), ethical practice ( Foucault 1990 , 2000 ) and approaches to time and history. In order to do this, I mostly draw on ethnographic material that was not
Anton Jansson, Kai Vogelsang, and Nele Kuhlmann
extensive methodology of critique inspired by Foucault, which allows him to examine the role of concepts in practices, the author tackles a desideratum in conceptual history. In addition, Vogelmann applies his method using an exemplary concept. He analyzes
Pettman, Dominic. Infinite Distraction
Paying Attention to Social Media
Conor Heaney
that modern technologies render its scale wider than ever before. Whether on Facebook, Tinder, Twitter, or Instagram: compulsory self-commodification and visibility (Foucault’s panoptic nightmare) is, increasingly, the only game in town. Our
Objects of Dispute
Planning, Discourse, and State Power in Post-War France
Edward Welch
population. Its reorganization of space, infrastructure, and living places emerges as a tangible manifestation of the state’s power over human life, defined by Michel Foucault in the 1970s as “bio-politics.” 10 That stories of state power told from the