Posts tagged Michael Foucault

North Korea Is Not a Threat -...

By Prerna on April 5, 2009
North Korea Is Not a Threat – Unveiling Hegemonic Discourses

That security is socially constructed does not mean that there are not to be found real, material conditions that help to create particular interpretations of threats, or that such conditions are irrelevant to either the creation or undermining of the assumptions underlying security policy. Enemies,... [+]

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05Apr

Wall Street Collapse? Another Crisis...

By Prerna on September 25, 2008
Wall Street Collapse? Another Crisis of Capitalism

var likeParams = ['abcdef0123456789','drawerbutton']; I wish I had the ability to be shocked when I hear about a ‘deep crisis’ that can cause staggering losses (a cyclical crisis of capitalism), a $700 billion bailout for private sector cronies and John McCain canceling a 2-3... [+]

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25Sep

American Association of Geographers...

By Prerna on September 22, 2008
American Association of Geographers – Call for Papers

After these god-awful, life-stopping exams, I have to get down to several pending journal articles. One of them is for an Australian-based journal called Still. There are several AAG Call for Papers that seem to go with the topic and other half-completed works, so I... [+]

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22Sep

Foucault on Geography and Population

By Prerna on August 31, 2008
Foucault on Geography and Population

“One might wonder, as a conceit or a hypothesis, whether geographical knowledge doesn’t carry within itself the circle of the frontier, whether this be a national, departmental or cantonal frontier; and hence, whether one shouldn’t add to the figures of internment you have indicated–that of... [+]

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31Aug

Michel Foucault - References and...

By Prerna on June 25, 2008
Michel Foucault – References and Works

It’s officially 24 years since the death of great French social critic, Michel Foucault (yea yea, my favorite). Anyway, the following is a list of Foucault books and resources that I have been able to locate on the internet and referencing here for educational, non-commercial... [+]

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25Jun

Documenting the birth of illegal...

By Prerna on May 9, 2008
Documenting the birth of illegal immigration

Someone at BNF felt compelled to tell me that the birth of illegal immigration was the coming of Europeans to the Americas. The comment is theoretically accurate but misses the point of the argument. By the ‘birth of illegal immigration,’ I am referring to the... [+]

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09May