Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment. Call for chapters (2011)

Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment The ideas of these two towering thinkers of the 20th century, Gramsci and Foucault, have all too often fallen into opposing camps. Radhakrishnan (1987) argues that Foucault’s understanding of the subject remains philosophical, while Gramsci’s continual interrogation of the relation between the individual and the group allows for concrete political [...]

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CFP: The Imperfect Historian: Disability Histories in Europe (2011)

From H-Net Call for Papers The imperfect Historian: Disability Histories in Europe «I’m not a professional historian, but nobody is perfect» Michel Foucault, University of Vermont, 27 October 1982 Just like gender, race and class, disability has become a standard analytical category in the historian’s tool chest nowadays. Up until now Paul Longmore and Lauri [...]

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The Cinema as Scaffold: Re-inscribing the Tortured Body (2011)

From H-net Edited Essay Collection 2nd call for Abstracts – Final Deadline Jan. 15, 2011 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and the ‘spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore sovereign power and control over the body through a consideration of the cinema’s, arguable, co-option of the state’s [...]

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CFP: Cinema and the State-Tortured Body (2010)

From H-net See updated call for papers due January 2011 Call for Papers: Cinema and the State-Tortured Body Call for Abstracts Due Date: 2010-10-01 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore the Sovereign’s power and control over the body through [...]

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Introduction to Post-structuralism: Call for chapters (2010)

From H-net Introduction to Post-structuralism – Essay Collection Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-10-01 This is a call for papers for an essay collection to be entitled “Introduction to Post-structuralism.” The essay collection will consist of pedagogical, explanatory descriptions of post-structuralism to be used as references or classroom textbooks. The goal of this collection is to [...]

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The Host Gaze (2011)

Call for chapter proposals. See here for full details The Host Gaze We are pleased to announce a Call for Chapter Proposals for the book which will present new and emerging directions in research in the area of host gaze. Theoretical and practical research contributions are welcomed. We invite submissions that will cover many aspects [...]

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