High Court of Australia Building (Canberra). Photo: S Young. Discipline is one of Foucault’s most intriguing and widely discussed concepts. This explanatory post broadly examines discipline and disciplinary power by considering how Foucault conceptualises the...
Carolina Rediviva Library (Uppsala) where Foucault conducted much of his archaeological work on the history of medicine from 1955–1960 In 1968, Jean Hyppolite,1Jean Hyppolite was a key influence on the work of Foucault, particularly with regard to Hyppolite’s...
Key Concept Despite their prominence in subsequent academic writing,1See T Campbell & A Sitze Biopolitics: A Reader (2013). the concepts of “biopower” and “biopolitics” are perhaps the most elusive, and arguably the most compelling (given the attention they have...
In October 2016, the University of Sussex published its Freedom of Speech Code of Practice1University of Sussex – Office of Planning, Governance and Compliance, ‘Freedom of Speech – Code of Practice’...
The immigration crisis of summer 2014 made national news once more in February of 2015 when a federal judge granted an injunction on behalf of Central American mothers and children which ordered a stoppage to the Obama administration’s policy of detaining women and...
