discourses of class intersect with the gendered discipline of girls in secure care. Secure care can be understood as a site in which repressive and productive forms of power meet to produce subjects (Foucault [1974]1987). Such a theoretical perspective
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In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–96 (17 total)
"This Video Call May Be Monitored and Recorded"
Video Visitation as a Form of Surveillance Technology and Its Effect on Incarcerated Motherhood
JWells
This article argues that the implementation of video visitation in correctional facilities is a mechanism of control used to enact punitive measures for regulating mothers who act outside the dominant paradigms of motherhood. Because prisons were designed to surveil and mothers have historically been surveilled by institutions, incarcerated mothers are often overlooked when we discuss the surveillance methods used to keep institutionalized motherhood intact. This article builds on existing scholarship characterizing surveillance technology’s role in criminalizing poor mothers of color, and considers the ways in which surveillance technology is used to normalize these mothers during their incarceration. Applying a Foucauldian framework, this article explores how adapting Video Visitation (VV)—a Skype-like video chat program—enables correctional facilities to extend the role of “watcher” and expand the panoptic gaze, which prompts mother-to-mother surveillance and intensifies self-surveillance. The article concludes by drawing attention to VV’s structure and its ability to expand correctional facilities’ surveillance to the children of incarcerated mothers.
Sarah Young
The origin story is an important element for any superhero/villain, as it provides context for a character’s seemingly out-of-this-world abilities. A radioactive spider bit Spiderman, and the Penguin was bullied in his youth. It can also be beneficial for surveillance scholars, inasmuch as it provides context for a once invisible but superhuman body of digital information that circulates as a proxy for us in digital milieus. This body is best understood through contemporary surveillance practices, yet metaphors of the panopticon and George Orwell’s 1984 proliferate in the surveillant imagination. I argue here that mapping an origin story onto a view of our data as a superhuman body not only creates a tangible representation of surveillance, but it also emphasizes and animates alternative surveillance theories useful for circulation in the surveillant imagination.
Working Hard, Hanging Back
Constructing the Achieving Girl
Colette Slagle
discursively created across many context-specific sites. Drawing from Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge , she examines both media constructions and girls’ own constructions of such a girl. The book is a multisite, interdisciplinary study that works to
“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
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 67–82 (16 total)
Questions of Authorship
Some Comments on David Bordwell’s Narration in the Fiction Film
Paisley Livingston
is fundamentally wrong ( Foucault 1969 ; Love 2002 ; Rose 1993 ; Saunders 1992 ; Woodmansee 1984 , Woodmansee and Jaszi 1994 ). As one Foucault-inspired philosopher put this prevalent thesis, “all authorship is constructed, assigned, and
Kaoru Miyazawa
citizenship ( Weeks 1998 ). At the same time, in the history of modern nation-states, as Foucault pointed out (see Davidson 2008 ; Dreyfus and Rabinow 1983 ), sexuality has also been the major site in which biopower has operated to regulate citizens
April Mandrona
Saba Mahmood who extends Michel Foucault’s theorizing. In her reading of Foucault, for example, Mahmood writes, Foucault distinguished ethical practices from ‘morals,’ reserving the latter to refer to sets of norms, rules, values, and injunctions
Wandelnde Horizonte des Weltwissens
Zur Raumvorstellung der elementaren Geographieschulbücher des Japanischen Kaiserreichs
Toshiko Ito
Raum, der die Vormoderne und die Moderne in eins verschmelzen lässt Es ist ein halbes Jahrhundert her, dass Michel Foucault das 20. Jahrhundert als das Jahrhundert des Raums bezeichnete. 1 Seit Foucaults Denkanstoß entfaltet sich ein
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 82–105 (24 total)
Gargi Gangopadhyay
, Chhelebelar Dinguli , 30. 40 Chakraborty, Chhelebelar Dinguli , 31–32. 41 Sunirmal Basu, Jiban Khatar Koyek Pata [Some leaves from the book of my life] (Calcutta: Orient Book Company, 1955), 52. 42 Foucault defines “heterotopia” as a physical place
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 63–81 (19 total)