Foucault News

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

Using and Reading Foucault in Europe, Asia, and America Academic Workshop Foucault in and on the Post-Political Global Present : Using and Reading Foucault in Europe, Asia, and America Academic Workshop sponsored by Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes (CCEAE) and Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM) …

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For full details and the conference poster please visit the Conference website Colloque international MICHEL FOUCAULT DU GOUVERNEMENT DES VIVANTS AU COURAGE DE LA VÉRITÉ Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne    21-22 juin 2012  —— ED « Cultures et sociétés »/EA 4395 « Lettres, Idées, Savoirs » (UPEC) EA 3562 « Philosophies contemporaines »/<EXeCO (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Revue …

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Ojakangas, M. (2012). “Michel Foucault and the enigmatic origins of bio-politics and governmentality”. History of the human sciences , 25 (1), pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111426654 Abstract Even a superficial look at the classical ideas and practices of government of populations makes it immediately apparent that there is a peculiarity in Foucault’s genealogy of western bio-politics and …

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Ferlie, Ewan; Mcgivern Gerry; FitzGerald Louise (2012). “A new mode of organizing in health care? Governmentality and managed networks in cancer services in England”. Social science & medicine (1982) , 74 (3), p. 340-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.021 Abstract We explore the argument that a new mode of health care organizing is emerging which moves beyond the established …

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Niesche, Richard, Haase Malcom (2012). “Emotions and Ethics: A Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical educator”. Educational philosophy and theory , 44 (3), p. 276-88. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00655.x Abstract This paper provides examples of how a teacher and a principal construct their ethical selves. In doing so we demonstrate how Foucault’s four-part ethical framework can be …

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