Rachel Shanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 72769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Shanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Shanks |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1842-9011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Depression, Critique, and Critical Theory as Political Therapy
Critical theorists, especially in the Frankfurt School tradition, claim that normative thought and critique arise from experiences of suffering and oppression. It seems intuitive that oppression sometimes makes people sad and angry in ways that motivate critique and resistance; yet, other times, it leads to debilitating experiences of depression, resignation, and self‐blame. Especially, in the context of our contemporary “mental health epidemic,”…
The Bellwether of Oppression: Anger, Critique, and Resistance
Feminists have long argued that emotions have a rightful place in politics. Anger, specifically, is often said to play a crucial role in alerting people to oppression and motivating resistance. The task of this paper is to elaborate these claims and to outline a conception of the political value of anger. In doing so, I argue against the view that anger is valuable only if and because it expresses a sound moral judgment. Instead, we should see ra…
School Uniforms: New Materialist Perspectives
This edited volume brings together a new materialist approach to understanding the various legacies and controls being exercised through school uniforms.
The prison of the body: School Uniforms Between Discipline and Governmentality
This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all Scottish state secondary schools (n = 357). Against the backdrop of large-scale shifts from disciplinary societies to ones dominated by ‘neoliberal governmentality’ identified by Foucault and others, we investigate how these modes of power seem to be entangled in school uniform policies. The ana…
Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault. Cambridge: Polity, 2021. Pp. 281
Philosophy From the texture of Everyday Life: The Critical-Analytic Methods of Foucault and J. L. Austin
In a 1978 lecture in Tokyo, Foucault drew a comparison between his own philosophical methodology and that of ‘Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy’, claiming the label ‘analytic philosophy of politics’ for his own approach. This may seem like a somewhat surprising comparison given the gulf between contemporary analytic and continental philosophy, but I argue that it is a very productive one which indeed might help us reconsider this gulf. I proceed th…
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies
What are we to make of the fact that world leaders, such as Canada’s Justin Trudeau, have, within the last few decades, offered official apologies for a whole host of past injustices? Scholars have largely dealt with this phenomenon as a moral question, seeing in these expressions of contrition a radical disruption of contemporary neoliberal individualism, a promise of a more humane world. Focusing on Canadian apology politics, this essay instead…
Anger and Apology, Recognition and Reconciliation: Managing Emotions in the Wake of Injustice
This article treats rituals of apology and reconciliation as responses to social discontent, specifically to expressions of anger and resentment. A standard account of social discontent, found both in the literature on transitional justice and in the social theory of Axel Honneth, has it that these emotional expressions are evidence of an underlying psychic need for recognition. In this framework, the appropriate response to expressions of anger …
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland's schools
This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a 10-year period. The comparison reveals how 'organic' aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how ne…
The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution by Mitchell Dean, Daniel Zamora (review)
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The prison of the body: School Uniforms Between Discipline and Governmentality
This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all Scottish state secondary schools (n = 357). Against the backdrop of large-scale shifts from disciplinary societies to ones dominated by ‘neoliberal governmentality’ identified by Foucault and others, we investigate how these modes of power seem to be entangled in school uniform policies. The ana…
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies
What are we to make of the fact that world leaders, such as Canada’s Justin Trudeau, have, within the last few decades, offered official apologies for a whole host of past injustices? Scholars have largely dealt with this phenomenon as a moral question, seeing in these expressions of contrition a radical disruption of contemporary neoliberal individualism, a promise of a more humane world. Focusing on Canadian apology politics, this essay instead…
Anger and Apology, Recognition and Reconciliation: Managing Emotions in the Wake of Injustice
This article treats rituals of apology and reconciliation as responses to social discontent, specifically to expressions of anger and resentment. A standard account of social discontent, found both in the literature on transitional justice and in the social theory of Axel Honneth, has it that these emotional expressions are evidence of an underlying psychic need for recognition. In this framework, the appropriate response to expressions of anger …
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland's schools
This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a 10-year period. The comparison reveals how 'organic' aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how ne…
The Bellwether of Oppression: Anger, Critique, and Resistance
Feminists have long argued that emotions have a rightful place in politics. Anger, specifically, is often said to play a crucial role in alerting people to oppression and motivating resistance. The task of this paper is to elaborate these claims and to outline a conception of the political value of anger. In doing so, I argue against the view that anger is valuable only if and because it expresses a sound moral judgment. Instead, we should see ra…
Sports coverage on GDR television
The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution by Mitchell Dean, Daniel Zamora (review)
Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault. Cambridge: Polity, 2021. Pp. 281
Philosophy From the texture of Everyday Life: The Critical-Analytic Methods of Foucault and J. L. Austin
In a 1978 lecture in Tokyo, Foucault drew a comparison between his own philosophical methodology and that of ‘Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy’, claiming the label ‘analytic philosophy of politics’ for his own approach. This may seem like a somewhat surprising comparison given the gulf between contemporary analytic and continental philosophy, but I argue that it is a very productive one which indeed might help us reconsider this gulf. I proceed th…
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies
What are we to make of the fact that world leaders, such as Canada’s Justin Trudeau, have, within the last few decades, offered official apologies for a whole host of past injustices? Scholars have largely dealt with this phenomenon as a moral question, seeing in these expressions of contrition a radical disruption of contemporary neoliberal individualism, a promise of a more humane world. Focusing on Canadian apology politics, this essay instead…
Anger and Apology, Recognition and Reconciliation: Managing Emotions in the Wake of Injustice
This article treats rituals of apology and reconciliation as responses to social discontent, specifically to expressions of anger and resentment. A standard account of social discontent, found both in the literature on transitional justice and in the social theory of Axel Honneth, has it that these emotional expressions are evidence of an underlying psychic need for recognition. In this framework, the appropriate response to expressions of anger …
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland's schools
This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a 10-year period. The comparison reveals how 'organic' aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how ne…
School Uniforms: New Materialist Perspectives
This edited volume brings together a new materialist approach to understanding the various legacies and controls being exercised through school uniforms.
The prison of the body: School Uniforms Between Discipline and Governmentality
This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all Scottish state secondary schools (n = 357). Against the backdrop of large-scale shifts from disciplinary societies to ones dominated by ‘neoliberal governmentality’ identified by Foucault and others, we investigate how these modes of power seem to be entangled in school uniform policies. The ana…
The Bellwether of Oppression: Anger, Critique, and Resistance
Feminists have long argued that emotions have a rightful place in politics. Anger, specifically, is often said to play a crucial role in alerting people to oppression and motivating resistance. The task of this paper is to elaborate these claims and to outline a conception of the political value of anger. In doing so, I argue against the view that anger is valuable only if and because it expresses a sound moral judgment. Instead, we should see ra…
Depression, Critique, and Critical Theory as Political Therapy
Critical theorists, especially in the Frankfurt School tradition, claim that normative thought and critique arise from experiences of suffering and oppression. It seems intuitive that oppression sometimes makes people sad and angry in ways that motivate critique and resistance; yet, other times, it leads to debilitating experiences of depression, resignation, and self‐blame. Especially, in the context of our contemporary “mental health epidemic,”…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anger (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)