Foucault News

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

Soleymanjahan, I., Maleki, N., Weisi, H. The real America: Representation of American society in Jack Kerouac’s on the road based on Michel Foucault’s notions of institutions, normalization, and surveillance (2020) Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 28 (4), pp. 2913-2927. DOI: 10.47836/PJSSH.28.4.23 Abstract This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the …

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Joseph Zajda, Discourse analysis as a qualitative methodology (2020) Educational Practice and Theory, 42 (2), pp. 5-21. https://doi.org/10.7459/ept/42.2.02 Abstract The article analyses the term discourse and discourse analysis with reference to Foucault and other critics. Foucault used the role of discourses in wider social processes of legitimating power, and emphasizing the construction of current truths. …

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Pele, Antonio, and Stephen Riley. “For a Right to Health Beyond Biopolitics: The Politics of Pandemic and the ‘Politics of Life.’” Law, Culture and the Humanities, (February 2021). DOI: 10.1177/1743872120978201 Open access Abstract We argue, drawing on the work of Didier Fassin, that the right to health can be understood as an essential part of …

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Kahan, Benjamin. The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality. University of Chicago Press, 2019. Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of …

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Javaid, Aliraza. Masculinities, sexualities and love. Routledge, 2018. Book Description It can be said that societies today know little of how gender, sexuality and love interconnect in dissimilar contexts, and how they are collectively shaped by social structures. Underpinned by the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault, Masculinities, Sexualities and Love examines a range of empirical …

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Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh. The history of sexuality, Volume 4, Edited by Frederic Gros, Translated by Robert Hurley. Pantheon 2021. ABOUT CONFESSIONS OF THE FLESH The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the …

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Emanuele Iula, Pulsioni e legami. Approcci filosofici alla sessualità, Orthotes Editrice, 2021 Fornire una comprensione adeguata della sessualità umana significa accettare la sfida della complessità, che si esprime non solo facendo ricorso a vari ambiti disciplinari, ma anche accogliendone il differenziarsi delle pratiche. Al giorno d’oggi non esiste autore, né scuola di pensiero, né indirizzo …

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II encontro nacional e I internacional de biopolítica O II Encontro Nacional e I Encontro Internacional de Bipolítica: Os desafios da Atualidade acontece no intuito de dar continuidade, e agora visando sua internacionalização, do I Encontro Nacional de Bipolítica: origens e consequências que foi realizado na Universidade Estadual de Londrina no ano de 2018. Evento …

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Sylvain Lafleur (ed), Foucault à Montréal réflexions pour une criminologie critique Les éditions de la rue Dorion (2021) En 1976, Michel Foucault participe à une conférence organisée par l’Office des droits des détenus de concert avec l’École de criminologie de l’Université de Montréal. Il y présente ses réflexions sur l’usage des peines de substitution à …

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