Foucault News

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

Discourses in Action What Language Enables Us to Do, Edited By Klaus Krippendorff, Nour Halabi, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This interdisciplinary collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of discourse, conceptualizing how discursive practices shape social, political, and even material realities today. Discourses in Action presents a wide range of essays that explore fundamental concerns …

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Gunn, A. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis and Early Childhood Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Published online: 23 May 2019 Summary Formal early childhood education is a relatively modern institution to which increasing numbers of children are routinely exposed. Since the modern invention of childhood, the early childhood years have been increasingly established as a site …

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Garlen, J.C., Chang-Kredl, S., Farley, L., Sonu, D. Childhood innocence and experience: Memory, discourse and practice (2020) Children and Society. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12428 Abstract This article examines how childhood innocence is taken up in (92) memories of undergraduate students across four sites in the US and Canada. Drawing from Foucault’s theory of discourse, we examine how …

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Kingston, S. Parent involvement in education? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters (2021) Power and Education, 13 (2), pp. 58-72. DOI: 10.1177/17577438211011623 Abstract The Ontario Ministry of Education (2010) puts forth parent involvement as a solution for underachievement and as a resource for building better schools. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters reveals …

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Cornish, C. The paradox of BKSB assessments and functional skills: the experiences of ‘disengaged’ youth on an employability course in a further education college (2021) Journal of Further and Higher Education DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2021.1945001 Abstract Self-governance and responsibilisation are integral to Basic Key Skills Builder (BKSB) assessments and Functional Skills qualifications. However, very little is known …

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Causerie sur Michel Foucault Salle des fêtes, 19 septembre 2021, Saint-Martin-la-Pallu. Causerie sur Michel Foucault Salle des fêtes, le dimanche 19 septembre à 15:30 L’historienne Arlette Farge a travaillé avec Michel Foucault sur l’ouvrage _Le désordre des familles. Lettres de cachets de la Bastille._ Elle nous fera part de son expérience singulière et de l’influence …

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Dassonneville, G. Foucault, Sartre et “le malheur de la psychologie”: Une histoire des images, II (2020) Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 82 (1), pp. 141-172. DOI: 10.2143/TVF.82.1.3287463 Abstract In the early 1950s, Foucault continued the project of a critique of the foundations of psychology, begun by Politzer at the turn of the 1930s and extended by Sartre …

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Federico Soldani, The Lancet’s Editor-in-Chief: “We will be transformed into biopolitical citizens” Psypolitics blog 3 August 2021 Topics that readers of PsyPolitics might already be familiar with such as the concepts of power, for instance as discussed by Michel Foucault, the transformation “from citizens to patients” – formulated for the first time in 2019 – …

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Muhsin, I., Ma’Mun, S., Nuroniyah, W. Sexual violence in an Islamic higher education institution of Indonesia: A Maqasid al-shariah and Foucauldian perspective (2021) Samarah, 5 (1), pp. 127-153. DOI: 10.22373/sjhk.v5i1.9144 Abstract Sexual violence was prevalent in many settings, including in religious educational institutions. This article analyzed cases of sexual violence at an Islamic higher education …

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Krce-Ivančić, M. (2021). The Knowledge of Pessimism. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 17(1), 471–490. Open access Abstract Leaving a well-trodden path of conflating pessimism with a favourite pastime of those who take pleasure in coming up with aporetic riddles, the article gives the knowledge of pessimism the attention it deserves. …

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