Foucault News

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

Niesche, R. (2011). Foucault and Educational Leadership: Disciplining the Principal. London: Routledge. Link to publisher’s site Description This book draws on a number of Foucault’s concepts to explore how school principals are created as subjects through their work practices and various educational leadership discourses. Foucault’s work is useful for provoking new thought into how the …

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Jean-François Bert, Introduction à Michel Foucault, Editions La Découverte (6 janvier 2011) Sommaire Michel Foucault (1926-1984) aura été en France le plus novateur des maîtres à penser, maître par défaut, sans programme articulé, qui a su pourtant offrir à ses nombreux lecteurs issus des disciplines les plus variées une « boîte à outils » qu’il …

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Wróbel, Szymon, ‘Foucault Reads Freud: The Dialogue with Unreason and Enlightenment‘, Polish Sociological Review 3 (171) 2010, pp. 271-288 Abstract The title of the essay refers to the famous statement in Foucaults introduction to his History of Madness where he writes that “we have to do justice to Freud”. The problem, however, is that Foucault’s …

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Biopower & Birth Control: Queering the Racialization of Reproductive Rights New York University Tuesday, March 29 7:00pm – 9:00pm 1 Washington Square North, Parlor Facilitators: Zena Watson, Pride in Practice Johannah Westmacott, Counterpublic Collective Moderators: Mito and Juanes Roundtable participants will be following Michel Foucault and Angela Davis in the context of queering the current …

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Blair McDonald, New Coalitions and Other Ruptures: Foucault and the Hope for Bodies and Pleasures, M/C Journal, Vol. 13, No. 6 (2010) – ‘coalition’, Vol. 13, No. 6 (2010) https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.293 See here for entire article This essay takes its point of departure from a well known excerpt found in the final pages of Michel Foucault’s …

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Seminario de actualización La Biopolítica en el mundo actual. Reflexiones sobre el “efecto Foucault” Salón de Grados. Facultad de Filosofía. Campus de Guajara. Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife). PROGRAMACIÓN: Martes 12 abril 2011 17.30 horas ‐ Presentación del Seminario. Intervendrán: un representante del Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Dra. Ángela Sierra González (Decana de la Facultad …

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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM in collaboration with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada On Wednesday, March 23 at 3:30 p.m. in H. M. Tory Building 5-15 Sam Binkley (Emerson College) will be speaking on “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Neoliberal Transformations in the Government of Interiority” Abstract: This presentation theorizes the contemporary reinvention …

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Didier Eribon, Michel Foucault, Paris: Champs-Flammarion, Revised edition, 2011. Details on Didier Eribon’s blog. See also an interview with Eribon on the occasion of the publication of this revised version A new and revised edition of Eribon’s 1989 biography of Foucault has been published. This new edition includes a piece written by Pierre Bourdieu on …

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Georg Winkel, ‘Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis’, Forest Policy and Economics Volume 16, March 2012, Pages 81–92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 Abstract In this paper, a review is conducted on the use of the concepts of Michel Foucault in forest policy analysis. In doing so, three major …

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