Boulton, M., Garnett, A., & Webster, F. (2021). A Foucauldian discourse analysis of media reporting on the nurse-as-hero during COVID-19. Nursing Inquiry, e12471. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12471 Abstract This study uses a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore media reporting on the role of nurses as being consistently positioned ‘heroes’ during COVID-19. In so doing, it highlights multiple intersecting …
A. Pitsikali & R. Parnell (2019) The public playground paradox: ‘child’s joy’ or heterotopia of fear?, Children’s Geographies, 17:6, 719-731, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2019.1605046 ABSTRACT Literature depicts children of the Global North withdrawing from public space to ‘acceptable islands’. Driven by fears both of and for children, the public playground – one such island – provides clear-cut …
Daniel Verginelli Galantin, Experiencia e Politica no pensamento de Michel Foucault, Editora UFPR 2021. SINOPSE Certamente a noção de experiência que acompanhamos em diferentes momentos do pensamento foucaultiano não é um conceito diretamente reiterado e redefinido ao longo de todas as suas obras. Foucault nunca escreveu: eu disse que experiência era aquilo, mas na verdade …
Goran Gaber, Small Words, Big Consequences. On Michel Foucault’s Genealogy of the Critical Attitude, The Philosophical Salon, 8 November 2021 Michel Foucault has been called many things, from a young conservative to a faux radical, from a neo-liberal to an infantile leftist. Whatever the hermeneutical value of these epithets may be, there is a term …
William Davies, Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised, New Statesman, 10 November 2021. How did a philosophical movement embracing consumer culture become a target for today’s anti-woke brigade? Postmodernism, as the journalist Stuart Jeffries demonstrates in Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, is a tricky phenomenon to describe. The term is usually assumed to originate in …
Martínez-Bello, V.E., Bernabé-Villodre, M.D.M., Cabrera García-Ochoa, Y., Torrent-Trilles, L., Vega-Perona, H. The representation of athletes during Paralympic and Olympic Games: a Foucauldian analysis of the construction of difference in newspapers (2021) Disability and Society DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1983413 Abstract Our first aim was to evaluate the representation of athletes in the top newspapers in a continental European …
Marcelo Hoffman The FBI File on Foucault, Viewpoint Magazine, November 8, 2021 Open access Nearly a decade ago, two Brazilian researchers, Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues and Maria Izabel Pitanga, made a remarkable discovery. They requested materials on the French philosopher Michel Foucault from the National Archive of the Ministry of Justice in Brasília and …
Eckstein, N.A. Plague time: Space, fear, and emergency statecraft in early modern Italy (2021) Renaissance and Reformation, 44 (2), pp. 87-111. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v44i2.37522 Abstract Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth-and seventeenth-century policies were the …
Maher, H. Foucault against the Foucauldians? On the problem of the neoliberal state (2021) Thesis Eleven DOI: 10.1177/07255136211053377 Abstract The survival of neoliberal forms of governance after their apparent repudiation during the Global Financial Crisis is a problem that continues to generate significant scholarly controversy. One of the most influential accounts of the survival of …
Thornton, E. Unregulated Powers: The Politics of Metaphysics in French Post-Kantianism (2021) European Legacy DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2021.1987849 Abstract For thinkers such as Foucault and Deleuze, it is not possible to engage with metaphysical questions without simultaneously considering other, more political problems concerning the power relations that are internal to thought. In this article I argue that, …
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