Neoliberal Subjects: Pt. 15

Michael Arribas-Ayllon uses a Foucauldian framework to discuss a genealogy of psychology in relation to recipients of welfare in Australia. Garrett Albert Duncan analyses identity models used by researchers and educators to explain black youth subjectivity in the USA. Jeff Gavin explores young adult audiences' distancing techniques in reaction to AIDS-related television - a continuation of the theme of moralisation and the pathologisation of the other. John Cromby discusses subjectivity in more theoretical terms in an essay that suggests Damasio's somatic marker approach, combined with social theory, as an important way of approaching the body and how we live embodiment. Morten Nissen interrogates the relations between subject and object in German and Scandinavian traditions of critical psychology in order to think about the idea of critical psychology as a subject science: one that blends subjectivity and objectivity. Finally, Rajen Panikkar and Mandy Morgan examine the state of 'Amok', as it appears in writings on Malaysia, and Lisa Young and Juliet Mitchell look at relations between siblings amongst World War II evacuees.