Foucault News

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

Call for Papers: Critical Spaces – Disorienting the Topological Critical Spaces Call for Papers Facebook page ***The deadline for applications has now been extended to Friday 14th November 2014*** A graduate conference in the critical humanities to be hosted by The London Graduate School at Kingston University, London. Monday 5th January 2015 Keynote speakers will …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve made some additions and amendments to the Foucault Resources page on this blog. Among other things, the two contributions from Graham Burchell are linked; I’ve updated the table of Foucault’s various plans for The History of Sexuality, with a list of his lecture courses and related material; and it also has…

Brindisi, Cremonesi, Gros, Harcourt, Irrera, Lorenzini, Senellart, Tazzioli, Foucault e le genealogie del dir-vero Cronopio (collana “Tessere”), Napoli 2014, pp. 219 , In occasione del trentesimo anniversario della morte di Foucault, questo volume raccoglie i contributi alla giornata di studi organizzata da “materiali foucaultiani” all’école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales il 27 marzo 2013 …

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Mobilities and Foucault. Special Issue, Mobilities Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 Further info Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’ Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen & David Tyfield ‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’: Foucault and Beyond the Stopping of Mobilities Chris Philo Securing Circulation Through …

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Lanuza, G.M. Agency and Governmentality: The Regulation and resistance of Muslim students in a public high school (2013) Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 13 (2), pp. 63-78. Further info Abstract This paper is an attempt to show how Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality can be used to illustrate the regulation of Muslim students while engaging in …

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Miró-Bonet, M., Bover-Bover, A., Moreno-Mulet, C., Miró-Bonet, R., Zaforteza-Lallemand, C. Genealogy as a critical toolbox: Deconstructing the professional identity of nurses (2014) Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70 (4), pp. 768-776. Abstract Aim: To discuss the Foucauldian concept of genealogy as a framework for understanding and transforming nurses’ professional identity. Background: The professional identity of nurses …

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Marco DÍAZ MARSÁ / Jorge DÁVILA ROJAS, De la historia del pensamiento y de sus principios. Aproximación a Michel Foucault, REVISTA LOGOS. ANALES DEL SEMINARIO DE METAFÍSICA, Vol. 47 2014, pp. 81-109. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España / Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela) On the History of Thought and its Principles. Approach to Michel …

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Steven Hutchinson, Intelligence, reason of state and the art of governing risk and opportunity in early modern Europe, Economy and Society, Volume 43, Issue 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.883796 Abstract Drawing upon primary and secondary historical material, this paper explores the role of intelligence in early modern government. It focuses upon developments in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century …

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Call for Papers: Soft Power Third Issue: June 30, 2015 Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics Soft Power is an inter-disciplinary academic journal published in 2014 by the Grupo Planeta, one of the leading publishers in the Spanish-speaking world. It is supported by the University of Salerno and the Universidad …

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