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28Political Philosophy in the Era of Climate ChangeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 37 (1): 51-70. 2016.
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40Foucault, Politics, and Violence: A Response to Jana Sawicki and Kevin ThompsonPhilosophy Today 58 (2): 297-307. 2014.In her book, Oksala shows that the arguments for the ineliminability of violence from the political are often based on excessively broad, ontological conceptions of violence distinct from its concrete and physical meaning and, on the other hand, on a restrictively narrow and empirical understanding of politics as the realm of conventional political institutions
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115Anarchic bodies: Foucault and the feminist question of experienceHypatia 19 (4): 97-119. 2004.: The article shows that Michel Foucault's account of the sexual body is not a naïve return to a prediscursive body, nor does it amount to discourse reductionism and to the exclusion of experience, as some feminists have argued. Instead, Foucault's idea of bodies and pleasures as a possibility of the counterattack against normalizing power presupposes an experiential understanding of the body. The experiential body can become a locus of resistance because it is the possibility of an unpredictabl…Read more
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88How to read FoucaultW. W. Norton & Co.. 2008.Introduction -- The freedom of philosophy -- Reason and madness -- The death of man -- The anonymity of literature -- From archaeology to genealogy -- The prison -- Repressed sexuality -- A true sex -- Political power, rationality, and critique -- Practices of the self.
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32What is feminist phenomenology? Thinking birth philosophicallyRadical Philosophy 126 16-22. 2004.
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22Review of Marc djaballah, Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (1). 2009.
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92Foucault, Politics, and ViolenceNorthwestern University Press. 2011.In her book, Oksala shows that the arguments for the ineliminability of violence from the political are often based on excessively broad, ontological conceptions of violence distinct from its concrete and physical meaning and, on the other hand, on a restrictively narrow and empirical understanding of politics as the realm of conventional political institutions
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36Anarchic Bodies: Foucault and the Feminist Question of ExperienceHypatia 19 (4): 99-121. 2004.The article shows that Michel Foucault's account of the sexual body is not a naive return to a prediscursive body, nor does it amount to discourse reductionism and to the exclusion of experience, as some feminists have argued. Instead, Foucault's idea of bodies and pleasures as a possibility of the counterattack against normalizing power presupposes an experiential understanding of the body. The experiential body can become a locus of resistance because it is the possibility of an unpredictable …Read more
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