In order to locate and understand a notion of freedom in the later works of Michel Foucault, I will first offer a discussion of delinquency as described in Discipline and Punish. Within this discussion I will argue against Thomas Dumm’s characterization of the delinquent as emblematic of freedom on the grounds that such a characterization is implicitly contested in Discipline and Punish. I will...

Abstract The rich body of literature on the cultural legacies East Germany has privileged white German perspectives material culture at expense non-white and non-European encounters with socialist things. In shifting spatial lens to global South, foreign students workers who lived for extended periods in Germany, I trouble implicit whiteness study GDR memory. Popular identification goods beyond...

Segregation has been widely discussed by social scientists and especially by urban geographers and planners over the past decades. However, regardless of their focus, most of these studies view segregation as an obvious case of spatial injustice. I argue that this implicit relationship between segregation, (in) justice, and space needs to be reexamined. This paper approaches this task by review...

Recent disclosures of failures of care in the National Health Service (NHS) in England have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. While the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...

Focusing on the construction of London's West India Docks in 1802, I argue that this project established a feedback loop with conditions production Caribbean. Through an analysis committee minutes, letters, parliamentary papers and visual art, move beyond economic accounts slavery's impact to demonstrate how geographies security surveillance—first developed sugar plantation—were imported into d...

This paper aims to show the centrality the concept of progress occupies explicitly and implicitly in social theory, in relation to the theorization and understanding of modernity; it also raises the question whether in times where Eurocentrism, logocentrism, and indeed almost every claim of supremacy are rightly viewed with suspicion, it is possible to think of modernity without relying on some...