Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

İhsan Gürsoy, Can education liberate us? Reframing an old question, Journal of Philosophy of Education, February 2026 https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhag002 Abstract This article reframes the question ‘Can education liberate us?’ by shifting attention from education’s capacity to produce emancipated individuals to its capacity to enable—or foreclose—liberation within the experience of subjectivation. Instead of proposing new educational theory …

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Joanne Hunt, (2026). Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively: the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Disability & Society, 41(1), 281–287. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2492653 Abstract Whilst myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has recently attracted high-profile media coverage, dominant accounts do not tell the whole story of how this group of disabled people came to occupy – albeit unequally – society’s …

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Joanne Hunt. Mapping the government of disability in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A critical feminist account. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. 2025. Vol. 5(3):332-356. https://www.doi.org/10.13169/intljofdissocjus.5.3.0004 Abstract​ People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have historically been conceptualised in health and social policy as “undeserving” of societal support, largely via a variant of biopsychosocial model …

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Stuart Jeffries, Jürgen Habermas obituary, The Guardian, 16 March 2026 Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule The philosopher, social theorist and defender of humane Enlightenment values Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, spent the last months of the second world war helping …

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Ronni Laursen, Miriam Madsen (eds). Education and the Politics of Time. Temporal Governance in Teaching and Learning, Springer, 2026 About this book Education and the politics of time: temporal governance in teaching and learning explores how time—its organization, regulation, and lived experience—structures education across diverse contexts. Organized into four thematic sections, the book’s 17 chapters …

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Emma Noble, Medical gaslighting: conceptual and theoretical foundations. Social Theory & Health 24, 1 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-025-00247-4 Abstract Medical gaslighting is a term that is frequently found in gray literature but rarely found in formal literature. However, Gaslighting is a term that has been examined in scientific literature, typically in relation to intimate partner relationships. I …

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Lorenzo Petrachi, Michel Foucault’s «La croisade des enfants». Schérer, Rochefort and the Political Philosophy of Childhood, Filosofia politica 1/2026, pp. 121-140. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1416/119910 Article in Italian Abstract The essay offers an analysis of Michel Foucault’s previously unpublished manuscript, “La croisade des enfants”. After establishing its date and providing a description of the manuscript, the essay situates …

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Jessamine Giese, Megan Gibson, and Marie White, Navigating Policy Disconnect in Early Childhood: Teams Interpreting the NQF, EYLF, and Modern Awards. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, First published online February 12, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391261425987 Abstract In Australia, early childhood education and care (ECEC) has experienced substantial policy reform in the past 15 years with major shifts …

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Jessamine Giese, (2025) Early Childhood Educators Producing Curriculum and Pedagogy: Discursive Possibilities of Team Decision-Making. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology. Open access Description There is increasing political interest in Australia on early childhood education and care reforms requiring educators to collectively navigate, and translate, policies into practice. This thesis explores how teams of educators …

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PhD course: Foucault: Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation PhD course: Foucault: Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation LINK to the course site: https://phdsupport.nemtilmeld.dk/38/ Date and time Monday 1th June at 09:00 to Thursday 4th June 2026 at 16:00 Registration Deadline 18th May 2026 at 23:55 Location Room TBA, Campus TBA, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Organizer CBS …

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