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

Ball, S., Collet-Sabé, J. Against school: an epistemological critique (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1947780 Abstract The paper argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. 1 Contrary to the sensibilities of educational research that look for more and/or better schooling as a way of making education more equal and more inclusive, our position is against …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
One excellent piece of advice I picked up sometime in June was that while it might make sense to think of the autumn term as the beginning of the academic year, for research it makes sense to think of the beginning of summer as a fresh start. So that rather…

Colombo, A. Inexpérience des Pères : Les Aveux de la chair de Michel Foucault et la formation de l’expérience de la chair (2021) Revue Théologique de Louvain, 52 (1), pp. 43-64. DOI: 10.2143/RTL.52.1.3289206 Abstract This article investigates Michel Foucault’s account of « experi ence of the Flesh » based on Foucault’s posthumous Les Aveux de …

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Rozhdestvenskaia, E.A. The ethics of care discourse for future education (2021) Chelovek, 32 (2), pp. 76-88. DOI: 10.31857/S023620070014862-5 Abstract We reveal the key approaches to the ethics of care (Plato, M. Heidegger, M. Foucault), and the features of the feminist ethics of care (N. Noddings, K. Gilligan et al.), which implies the denial of the …

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Claudia Aradau and Martina Tazzioli, Covid-19 and rebordering the world Radical Philosophy 2.10 (Summer 2021) In April 2021, dozens of asylum seekers were moved back to the Napier Barracks in the UK, after the barracks had been emptied a month earlier following protests and media reports on its unsuitable conditions. Migrant support groups and NGOs …

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Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand. Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present, Columbia University Press, 2021 Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there …

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Barashkov, V.V., Begchin, D.A., Davidov, I.P. Modern European philosophy of symbolic forms of religious and artistic consciousness (2021) Voprosy Filosofii, 2021 (6), pp. 74-84. DOI: 10.21146/0042-8744-2021-6-74-84 Abstract The article deals with the philosophical issues in the field of religious art. The revision of the theories of secularization in the late 20th – early 21st centuries …

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CAVALCANTI, R.C.T., SOUZA-LEÃO, A.L.M., MOURA, B.M. Hipsters versus posers: Fannish split in the indie music world (2021) Revista de Administracao Mackenzie, 22 (3) DOI: 10.1590/1678-6971/ERAMG210202 Abstract Purpose: Web 2.0 technologies have enhanced relational dynamics in fan communities. Indie music fans significantly identify themselves with the genre and participate in these communities within a music industry …

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