Contemporary Theory, Poststructuralism & Governmentality

Special Interest Group, Australian Association for Research in Education

An international network open to researchers from all disciplines who are applying the work of radical European theorists to education.

Theorists used by researchers in this network include Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, Bourdieu, Derrida, Habermas, Heidegger, Agamben, Butler and others. This network also includes those who are applying Foucault's notion of governmentality both directly and via the work of others such as Hunter, Dean, Rose, Gordon.
Anybody engaged in educational research which centres around this kind of theory is most welcome to join this network.
Members can link up with each other, form specific interest groups, post to the main forum or small group forums, post blog entries and notices of events. The main forum can be used to post publications, resources and calls for papers as well as for discussion of any other topics of general interest not covered in the small groups.

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Agamben

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Rancière and education

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Althusser

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Writing group

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Early career researchers

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Deleuze

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Foucault

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early childhood

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Foucault and Marxism

26 members
Governmentality

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Robert Nava replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucault21 hours ago

Hi Margaret, I have taken your words and added comments, questions, and suggestions. I hope this helps. To take a stab at answering my own question, identity discourse creates representative subjects who can be categorized, I would say that the ...

Robert Nava replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucault21 hours ago

Ali and d-netz, thank you for responding. I think you’re right about the purpose of the book, and I know Prado would agree with you. When I referred to Prado’s work, I should have appropriately situated the comment. I think he would agree with you...

d-netz replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucaultyesterday

I fully agree with Ali on this. The book certainly contains a lot of important insights on what we call 'sexuality', but at the same time it is much more (and is meant to be) than a book on that topic. I'm not sure, but I suspect that in the Engli...

d-netz and Margaret Robinson joined Clare O'Farrell's groupyesterday

Foucault

This group is for the discussion of any aspect of Foucault's work in relation to education.

Margaret Robinson replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucaultyesterday

Interesting idea. I think that the current discourse on sex has come to include a normal homosexual nature against which people discipline themselves to fit (and against which bisexuals, for example, are deemed abnormal). Of course, we could bring...

Margaret Robinson replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucaultyesterday

My field is mainly queer issues in religion, so I found the passage in Chapter 1 about the Christian pastorals very interesting. "...the Christian pastoral also sought to produce specific effects on desire, by the mere fact of transforming it - fu...

Ali M Rizvi replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucaultyesterday

Robert thank you very much for this opportunity and thanks for the wonderful format you have set up for the discussion. Few words in response to your question: The explanation may be correct as a personal genealogy of the book, but for sure the si...

Clare O'Farrell replied to Robert Nava's discussion 'History of Sexuality volume 1 reading and discussion group schedule' in the group Foucaultyesterday

Dispositif The word is indeed being used in a 'technical sense'. This is indicated by the fact that in an interview on HOS Foucault is asked directly by the interviewer about the methodological function of the term 'dispositif de sexualité'. Fouca...