Foucault News

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

Raaper, R. Academic perceptions of higher education assessment processes in neoliberal academia (2015) Critical Studies in Education, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1019901 Abstract Neoliberal higher education reforms in relation to quality assurance, managerialist practices, accountability and performativity are receiving increasing attention and criticism. In this article, I will address student assessment as part …

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Foucault au Collège de France : une aventure intellectuelle et éditoriale DU JEUDI 11 JUIN (19 H) AU JEUDI 18 JUIN (14 H) 2015 (Colloque de 7 jours) DIRECTION : Frédéric GROS, Luca PALTRINIERI ARGUMENT : Les leçons de Michel Foucault au Collège de France, prononcées entre 1971 et 1984, constituent une somme théorique indépassable …

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Phillips, M., Woodham, A., Hooper-Greenhill, E. Foucault and museum geographies: a case study of the English ‘Renaissance in the Regions’ (2015) Social and Cultural Geography, 34 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2015.1009854 Abstract This paper explores the subject of museum geographies, focusing particularly on the development of museum policies in a changing political context. The …

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Kavoura, A., Ryba, T.V., Chroni, S. Negotiating female judoka identities in Greece: A Foucauldian discourse analysis (2015) Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 17, pp. 88-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.09.011 Abstract Objectives: The objectives of this paper are to trace the discourses through which female Greek judokas articulate their sporting experiences and to explore how they construct their …

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Originally posted on ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology:
Uses and abuses of historical contextualization in Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, edited by Daniel Zamora. Part I.  * by Emanuele Leonardi Foucault participating in a demonstration. Source: http://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it/ Reviewing Critquer Foucault is not an easy task, for…

Cox, B.D., Pringle, R. ‘Muscles for Motherhood’: A Genealogical Analysis of Medicalised Ways of Knowing Female Footballers in New Zealand, 1921 and 1973–1975 (2015) International Journal of the History of Sport, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2014.989497 Abstract Michel Foucault argued that females gradually became integrated into the sphere of medical practices through a …

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Kristjánsdóttir, S. Becoming Christian: A Matter of Everyday Resistance and Negotiation (2015) Norwegian Archaeological Review, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00293652.2015.1015602 Abstract The diverse appearances of church buildings, iconography and altered burial practices have commonly been used to exemplify the expansion of Christianity in early medieval Europe. Less emphasis has been placed on how …

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Peach,, H.G., Jr, Bieber, J.P. Faculty and online education as a mechanism of power (2015) Distance Education, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2015.1019971 Abstract This study uses a critical perspective to examine how online education is used in brick-and-mortar institutions as a mechanism through which power is exercised by and against professors who teach …

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Stuart Elden, Peasant Revolts, Germanic Law and the Medieval Inquiry, Review of Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972, by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt, Paris: EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, 2015. Berfrois, June 2, 2015 Foucault remains full of surprises. This course, Théories et institutions pénales (“Penal Theories and Institutions”), was the second he …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’d like to think this was satire, but it appears not… The Philosopher’s Jumper. Though I guess if you’re prepared to pay £150 then the joke’s on you anyway… Thanks to James Kneale for the alert. They try to suggest various people, including Samuel Beckett and, right, Foucault and Sartre are…