Josh Bowsher
Biographic Data
| ID | 300583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josh Bowsher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josh |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowsher |
| SIGNATURE | BOWSHER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8043-5308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
After truth, after shame … after information politics? Rethinking the epistemologies of human rights in the digital-authoritarian conjuncture
Since the contemporary, mainstream human rights movement rose to prominence in the late-1970s, both knowing about and doing human rights has been marked by a very particular mode of activism, information politics, which mobilises ‘brute' facts with the aim of shaming governments into reform. However, this article suggests that the global rise of the far-right has intertwined with reactionary forms of digital culture, engendering both the retreat …
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures
Drawing on empirical research, this article explores the possible sociopolitical effects of database infrastructures on the shaping and construction of human rights narratives. While it has become commonplace to theorise human rights through the lens of narrative, academic debates have largely ignored the technical infrastructures through which human rights narratives are constructed. The article responds to this gap by deploying and developing t…
The Digital Calculus of Racial Capitalism
How can one negotiate the gap between the imaginaries of digital society and its technologies as forces of democratization and equality, and the lived experiences of gendered and racialized dispossession, expropriation and inequality? In recent years, this question has become central to a growing body of academic work, which explores the racializing potential of specific digital technologies and data practices that are usually sold as neutral, ob…
Appraising the "Greek Truth Committee" in the Age of Debt: Counter-Expertise, "Battle Truths," and the Struggle Against Post-Crash Neoliberalism
This article appraises the value of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt (TCPD) as a form of resistance to postcrash neoliberalism. It analyses the TCPD as a knowledge-making practice that directly confronts neoliberalism's use of sovereign debt as a "technology" designed not only to secure itself against democratic demands but to constrain subjectivity within the model of an entrepreneur-of-the-self. Through an analysis of its Preliminary Re…
The South African TRC as Neoliberal Reconciliation: Victim Subjectivities and the Synchronization of Affects
This article brings new insights from critical neoliberalism studies into dialogue with recent critical human rights scholarship to develop a theoretically driven analysis of South Africa’s post-apartheid transition. With South Africa’s post-apartheid settlement becoming increasingly fragile, there is a growing need to revisit the purported miracle of transition. Recognizing this need, the article critically explores the relationships between the…
Credit/debt and human capital: Financialized neoliberalism and the production of subjectivity
Adding to contemporary debates about the relationship between financialization and neoliberalism, this article investigates their entanglement at the level of subjectivity. Primarily, the article argues that financialization and neoliberalism are converging to produce a new form of subjectivity, post-profit homo œconomicus, an always indebted but credit-seeking enterprise. The value of this approach, the article demonstrates, is that it provides …
Omnus et Singulatim’: Establishing the Relationship Between Transitional Justice and Neoliberalism
Society of the Security
Ivan Ascher is a social theorist whose current project is concerned with the continuing relevance of Marx’s and Weber’s work to the critique of contemporary capitalism. As part of this project, Portfolio Society draws on a (re)reading of Marx to critically analyze the constitutive role of finance in the social world. In this respect, the book is situated within a growing literature that has emerged in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, wh…
Omnus et Singulatim’: Establishing the Relationship Between Transitional Justice and Neoliberalism
The South African TRC as Neoliberal Reconciliation: Victim Subjectivities and the Synchronization of Affects
This article brings new insights from critical neoliberalism studies into dialogue with recent critical human rights scholarship to develop a theoretically driven analysis of South Africa’s post-apartheid transition. With South Africa’s post-apartheid settlement becoming increasingly fragile, there is a growing need to revisit the purported miracle of transition. Recognizing this need, the article critically explores the relationships between the…
Credit/debt and human capital: Financialized neoliberalism and the production of subjectivity
Adding to contemporary debates about the relationship between financialization and neoliberalism, this article investigates their entanglement at the level of subjectivity. Primarily, the article argues that financialization and neoliberalism are converging to produce a new form of subjectivity, post-profit homo œconomicus, an always indebted but credit-seeking enterprise. The value of this approach, the article demonstrates, is that it provides …
Omnus et Singulatim’: Establishing the Relationship Between Transitional Justice and Neoliberalism
Society of the Security
Ivan Ascher is a social theorist whose current project is concerned with the continuing relevance of Marx’s and Weber’s work to the critique of contemporary capitalism. As part of this project, Portfolio Society draws on a (re)reading of Marx to critically analyze the constitutive role of finance in the social world. In this respect, the book is situated within a growing literature that has emerged in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, wh…
The South African TRC as Neoliberal Reconciliation: Victim Subjectivities and the Synchronization of Affects
This article brings new insights from critical neoliberalism studies into dialogue with recent critical human rights scholarship to develop a theoretically driven analysis of South Africa’s post-apartheid transition. With South Africa’s post-apartheid settlement becoming increasingly fragile, there is a growing need to revisit the purported miracle of transition. Recognizing this need, the article critically explores the relationships between the…
Credit/debt and human capital: Financialized neoliberalism and the production of subjectivity
Adding to contemporary debates about the relationship between financialization and neoliberalism, this article investigates their entanglement at the level of subjectivity. Primarily, the article argues that financialization and neoliberalism are converging to produce a new form of subjectivity, post-profit homo œconomicus, an always indebted but credit-seeking enterprise. The value of this approach, the article demonstrates, is that it provides …
Appraising the "Greek Truth Committee" in the Age of Debt: Counter-Expertise, "Battle Truths," and the Struggle Against Post-Crash Neoliberalism
This article appraises the value of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt (TCPD) as a form of resistance to postcrash neoliberalism. It analyses the TCPD as a knowledge-making practice that directly confronts neoliberalism's use of sovereign debt as a "technology" designed not only to secure itself against democratic demands but to constrain subjectivity within the model of an entrepreneur-of-the-self. Through an analysis of its Preliminary Re…
The Digital Calculus of Racial Capitalism
How can one negotiate the gap between the imaginaries of digital society and its technologies as forces of democratization and equality, and the lived experiences of gendered and racialized dispossession, expropriation and inequality? In recent years, this question has become central to a growing body of academic work, which explores the racializing potential of specific digital technologies and data practices that are usually sold as neutral, ob…
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures
Drawing on empirical research, this article explores the possible sociopolitical effects of database infrastructures on the shaping and construction of human rights narratives. While it has become commonplace to theorise human rights through the lens of narrative, academic debates have largely ignored the technical infrastructures through which human rights narratives are constructed. The article responds to this gap by deploying and developing t…
After truth, after shame … after information politics? Rethinking the epistemologies of human rights in the digital-authoritarian conjuncture
Since the contemporary, mainstream human rights movement rose to prominence in the late-1970s, both knowing about and doing human rights has been marked by a very particular mode of activism, information politics, which mobilises ‘brute' facts with the aim of shaming governments into reform. However, this article suggests that the global rise of the far-right has intertwined with reactionary forms of digital culture, engendering both the retreat …
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Neoliberalism (international relations (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works)