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154A phenomenology of genderContinental Philosophy Review 39 (3): 229-244. 2006.The article asks how phenomenology, understood as a philosophical method of investigation, can account for gender. Despite the fact that it has provided useful tools for feminist inquiry, the question remains how gender can be studied within the paradigm of a philosophy of a subject. The article explicates four different understandings of phenomenology and assesses their respective potential in terms of theorizing gender: a classical reading, a corporeal reading, an intersubjective reading and a…Read more
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6Lines of Fragility: A Foucaultian Critique of ViolenceIn Nathan Eckstrand & Christopher S. Yates (eds.), Philosophy and the return of violence: studies from this widening gyre, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2011.
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80Foucault on FreedomCambridge University Press. 2005.Freedom and the subject were guiding themes for Michel Foucault throughout his philosophical career. In this clear and comprehensive analysis of his thought, Johanna Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in his philosophy and examines three major divisions of it: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical. She shows convincingly that in order to appreciate Foucault's project fully we must understand his complex relationship to phenomenology, and she discusses Fouc…Read more
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7From the Death of the Author to the Freedom of Language: Foucault on LiteratureActa Philosophica Fennica 79 191. 2006.
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67Feminism and Neoliberal GovernmentalityFoucault Studies 16 32-53. 2013.The article investigates the consequences for feminist politics of the neoliberal turn. Feminist scholars have analysed the political changes in the situation of women that have been brought about by neoliberalism, but their assessments of neoliberalism’s consequences for feminist theory and politics vary. Feminist thinkers such as Hester Eisenstein and Sylvia Walby have argued that feminism must now return its focus to socialist politics and foreground economic questions of redistribution in or…Read more
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44Violence and the Biopolitics of ModernityFoucault Studies 10 23-43. 2010.The paper studies the relationship between political violence and biological life in the thought of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. I follow Foucault in arguing that understanding political violence in modernity means rethinking the ontological boundary between biological and political life that has fundamentally ordered the Western tradition of political thought. I show that while Arendt, Agamben and Foucault all see the merging of the categories of life and politics as the …Read more
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28Political Philosophy in the Era of Climate ChangeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 37 (1): 51-70. 2016.
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