Michel Foucault is often is taken to represent human beings as products of insidious structures of power that lie beyond control and perception. This is an unfair characterisation since a deeper reading into his work reveals reflections and even insistences on creativity, resistance and freedom as fundamental components of human experience. My aim is to unify these two aspects of Foucault's thought so as to provide a positive account of political resistance to power relations in contemporary neo-liberal society. ; February 2014
The faculty of theology within the medieval University of Paris formed a major node within the social network of thirteenth-century Europe. Through an analysis of papal and university statutes concerning the development of a defined understanding of heresy, an overview of the historiographic methodologies traditionally used in studying such a topic, and a prosopographically-based analysis of the actions taken by Pope Innocent III and a small circle of theologians at Paris, we hope to come to a more clarified understanding of the political motivations which drove academic and papal reform within the thirteenth century. More specifically, this study aims to examine how the papacy worked to directly alter both the curriculum and the faculty at the University of Paris, in order to utilize the department of theology therein as a political platform for the pope's own cause: an effort to coerce the throne of France to go to war with the heretics of Occitania. I am immeasurably grateful for the continued support and insight given to this ongoing project by Dr. John S. Ott, and for his mentorship throughout the research herein presented. I would also very much like to thank Dr. W. H. York, without whose extended discourses I never would have been able to complete even such a small article. The seeds you have planted now bear fruit.
The legacy of South Africa's past continues to upset the country's drive towardsinclusive and democratised spaces. This is particularly true in Cape Town, perhaps moreso than in any other city in the country, where the spatial divides of colonialism andapartheid contribute to a most unequal and segregated geospatial existence. In orderto address this urban challenge, the Cape Town Partnership developed the CentralCity Development Strategy (CCDS), a ten-year plan that calls for the densificationof the central city to re-plan Cape Town into a more liveable, inclusive, democratic,and sustainable urban space. By critically examining the role that inclusionary housingpolicies, public transportation, and increased economic opportunities play in a moresustainable form of urban development, this article emphasises the need to expandthe way in which planners approach urban design to take on a more holistic andpartnership-based approach.
