Topic · Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Most cited papers in Foucault, Power, and Ethics
What are the most cited papers in Foucault, Power, and Ethics?
The most cited paper in Foucault, Power, and Ethics is "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter" (Karen M. Barad, 2003), with 7,005 citations. Next come "Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care" (5,394) and "Two Faces of Power" (3,387).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 400 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Karen M. Barad · Signs | Mar 2003 | 7,005 |
| 2 | Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care Joan C. Tronto | 9 Sep 1993 | 5,394 |
| 3 | Two Faces of Power Peter Bachrach, Morton S. Baratz · American Political Science Review | Dec 1962 | 3,387 |
| 4 | Political power beyond the State: problematics of government Nikolas Rose, Peter Benson Miller · British Journal of Sociology | 2010 | 3,206 |
| 5 | The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach Margaret R. Somers · Theory and Society | Oct 1994 | 2,938 |
| 6 | Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality JAMES G. FERGUSON, Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist | Nov 2002 | 2,670 |
| 7 | Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy Margaret Canovan · Political Studies | Mar 1999 | 2,441 |
| 8 | Intersectionality and Feminist Politics Nira Yuval‐Davis · European Journal of Women s Studies | 25 Jul 2006 | 2,429 |
| 9 | The surveillant assemblage Kevin D. Haggerty, Richard Victor Ericson · British Journal of Sociology | Dec 2000 | 2,140 |
| 10 | 'The birth of bio-politics': Michel Foucault's lecture at the Collège de France on neo-liberal governmentality Thomas Lemke · Economy and Society | 2001 | 2,027 |
| 11 | Public Diplomacy and Soft Power Joseph S. Nye · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | 13 Feb 2008 | 2,001 |
| 12 | Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices Andréa Cornwall · Community Development Journal | 5 Jun 2008 | 1,711 |
| 13 | THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE: Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society Diana S. Richmond Garland · The British Journal of Criminology | 1996 | 1,709 |
| 14 | Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of Governance-beyond-the-State Erik A. Swyngedouw · Urban Studies | Oct 2005 | 1,578 |
| 15 | Understanding Governance: Ten Years On R. A. W. Rhodes · Organization Studies | 5 Jul 2007 | 1,387 |
| 16 | Applying critical realism in qualitative research: methodology meets method Amber J. Fletcher · International Journal of Social Research Methodology | 29 Feb 2016 | 1,358 |
| 17 | Pathways to participation: openings, opportunities and obligations Harry Shier · Children & Society | Apr 2001 | 1,269 |
| 18 | Apocalypse Forever? Erik A. Swyngedouw · Theory Culture & Society | Mar 2010 | 1,246 |
| 19 | Introduction: `Mode 2' Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott, Michael Gibbons · Minerva | Sep 2003 | 1,225 |
| 20 | Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics Garfield Tourney · American Journal of Psychiatry | Aug 1983 | 1,171 |
| 21 | The Sociology of Critical Capacity Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot · European Journal of Social Theory | Aug 1999 | 1,156 |
| 22 | Generative metaphor: A perspective on problem-setting in social policy Donald A. Schön · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Nov 1993 | 1,150 |
| 23 | On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation Bernard Manin · Political Theory | Aug 1987 | 1,103 |
| 24 | The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a sociology of impairment Bill Hughes, Kevin B. Paterson · Disability & Society | Jun 1997 | 1,037 |
| 25 | ‘Nothing Comes Without Its World’: Thinking with Care María Puig de la Bellacasa · The Sociological Review | May 2012 | 1,034 |
| 26 | Biopower Today Paul Rabinow, Nikolas Rose · BioSocieties | Jun 2006 | 1,031 |
| 27 | Governmentality Nikolas Rose, Pat O’Malley, Mariana Valverde · Annual Review of Law and Social Science | 5 Jun 2006 | 1,011 |
| 28 | Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: A Critique David Knights, Glenn Morgan · Organization Studies | Apr 1991 | 988 |
| 29 | Citizenship in flux: The figure of the activist citizen Engin F. Isin · Subjectivity | 27 Oct 2009 | 984 |
| 30 | Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa Christian Have Lund · Development and Change | Jul 2006 | 982 |
| 31 | Breaking out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology Matt Hall, Liz Stanley, Sue Wise · The Canadian Journal of Sociology | 1994 | 981 |
| 32 | Government, authority and expertise in advanced liberalism Nikolas Rose · Economy and Society | Aug 1993 | 968 |
| 33 | Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism Patti A. Lather · Sociological Quarterly | Nov 1993 | 937 |
| 34 | Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts? Robert Chambers · Environment and Urbanization | Apr 1995 | 903 |
| 35 | Conceptualizing Resistance Jocelyn A. Hollander, Rachel L. Einwohner · Sociological Forum | Dec 2004 | 895 |
| 36 | the ethic of care for the self as a practice of freedom Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Helmut F. Becker, Alfredo Gómez-Müller et al. · Philosophy & Social Criticism | Jul 1987 | 893 |
| 37 | The Uses of Neoliberalism JAMES G. FERGUSON · Antipode | 2010 | 884 |
| 38 | Policy without polity? Policy analysis and the institutional void Maarten A. Hajer · Policy Sciences | Jun 2003 | 841 |
| 39 | Discourse and Deinstitutionalization: the Decline of DDT Steve Maguire, Cynthia Hardy · Academy of Management Journal | Feb 2009 | 838 |
| 40 | Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis Kaiama L. Glover · Contemporary Women s Writing | 6 Jan 2016 | 824 |
| 41 | Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape Nicola Gavey | 9 Dec 2004 | 804 |
| 42 | What do buzzwords do for development policy? a critical look at ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘poverty reduction’ Andréa Cornwall, Karen Johannesen Brock · Third World Quarterly | Oct 2005 | 769 |
| 43 | Affective solidarity: Feminist reflexivity and political transformation Clare Hemmings · Feminist Theory | Aug 2012 | 766 |
| 44 | The Viewer Society Thomas J. Mathiesen · Theoretical Criminology | May 1997 | 761 |
| 45 | Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible Carol L. Bacchi · Open Journal of Political Science | 2012 | 742 |
| 46 | Performativities and fabrications in the education economy: Towards the performative society? Stephen J. Ball · The Australian Educational Researcher | Aug 2000 | 690 |
| 47 | Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept Simon Johnson Williams · Sociology of Health & Illness | 2000 | 677 |
| 48 | No one is perfect: The limits of transparency and an ethic for ‘intelligent’ accountability John D. Roberts · Accounting Organizations and Society | 29 May 2009 | 673 |
| 49 | Visibility Andrea Mubi Brighenti · Current Sociology | 26 Apr 2007 | 664 |
| 50 | Inclusive Citizenship: Realizing the Potential1 Ruth Lister · Citizenship Studies | Feb 2007 | 655 |
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