Michel Foucault

Review – Sexing War/Policing Gender

Federica Caso • Jun 8 2015 • Features

Åhäll’s volume explores cultural representations of female political agency and female political violence through the metanarrative of motherhood.

Greeks and Psychiatry in Crisis

Alexandros Argyriadis • May 29 2015 • Articles

The post-2008 financial crisis goes beyond the economic problems that Greece now faces. It has also created a generalized crisis in the field of psychiatry.

Understanding Resilience through the Rudiments of Biopolitics

Tudor Vilcan • Jan 12 2015 • Articles

Opposite conceptualizations of resilience as proper to new emerging ontological relations; biopolitics reminds us that resilience is enmeshed with power and control.

Beyond the Military Front

A.R. Sriskanda Rajah • Oct 16 2014 • Articles

Whilst many would feel uneasy recognising law enforcement action to be war, it can be recognised as war whenever law enforcement produces the effects of battle.

Foucault and International Relations

Philippe Fournier • May 12 2014 • Articles

Though Michel Foucault remains a somewhat marginalized figure within international relations, the critical ethos he left behind has greatly inspired IR scholars.

Is Poststructuralism a Useful IR Theory? What About Its Relationship to Historical Materialism?

Michael Merlingen • May 8 2013 • Articles

The quality of our critique of world politics and our ability to change it is at stake. It seems a good idea to give conversation a try.

Michel Foucault’s Political Philosophy

Mark Kelly • Mar 31 2009 • Articles

I recently wrote a book about the thought of Michel Foucault. It was published last year under the title The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault. The book begins with a justification of the use of the term ‘political philosophy’ in relation to Foucault. The reason for caution about this term is precisely the reason why I think it is justified to use it in the title of the book.

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