Foucault News

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

Jesse Swann-Quinn, More-than-human government and the Tbilisi zoo flood Geoforum, Volume 102, 2019,Pages 167-181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.007. Abstract: On 17 June 2015, an unprecedented series of rain events caused a wall of water to tear through an affluent urban neighborhood in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The flood damaged 700 homes, displaced 67 families, killed 19 people, left …

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Bronwyn Fredericks, Abraham Bradfield Signifying Aboriginal Identity, Culture and Country in Central Queensland Through a Public Art Project, Borderlands journal. Volume 20, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 89-115, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2021-004 ABSTRACT Alongside Toonooba (the Fitzroy River) in central Queensland, a series of Aboriginal flood markers are embedded within the earth, commanding attention to the river that …

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Becker, Per. “Fragmentation, Commodification and Responsibilisation in the Governing of Flood Risk Mitigation in Sweden.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 39, no. 2 (March 2021): 393–413. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420940727. Open access Abstract The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of the governing of flood risk mitigation in advanced liberal society, through an …

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Cantrell, Sarah K. “”I solemnly swear I am up to no good”: Foucault’s Heterotopias and Deleuze’s Any-Spaces-Whatever in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” Children’s Literature 39 (2011): 195-212. doi:10.1353/chl.2011.0012. Abstract It is no secret that we live on an endangered planet. In the past year, we have witnessed catastrophic earthquakes, oil spills, floods, and …

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Dobbie, Meredith, Ruth Morgan, and Lionel Frost. “Overcoming Abundance: Social Capital and Managing Floods in Inner Melbourne during the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 1 (January 2020): 33–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144217692984. Abstract Before effective drainage and flood protection systems were built in the early twentieth century, areas of inner Melbourne close to the Yarra …

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Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff, The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security, Princeton University Press, 2022. From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and …

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Victor Marchezini, The Biopolitics of Disaster: Power, Discourses, and Practices, Human Organization, Vol. 74, Iss. 4, (Winter 2015): 362-371. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259-74.4.362 Abstract With the increase in frequency and visibility of disasters in contemporary state societies, national governments have developed a collection of agencies to manage catastrophic events. These institutions invariably deal with human populations as a …

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Ritter, S. Fat bodies, intimate relationships and the self in finnish and American weight-loss TV shows (2022) Fat Studies DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2031579 Abstract As sites where the construction of identity and selfhood take place, relationship-focused weight-loss TV shows reproduce the notion of a correlation between a woman’s body size, her ‘success’ in romantic relationships, and the …

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Elisabetta Basso, Michel Foucault, Le confessioni della carne. Storia della sessualità 4, edizione stabilita da F. Gros, trad. it. di D. Borca, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019, Alverium, Anno XIII, n. 13 – dicembre 2020 Open access La pubblicazione nel 2018 di Les aveux de la chair (Paris, Gallimard), l’ultima opera composta da Michel Foucault prima della …

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Workshop Nietzsche, Genealogy, Foucault: History between between Life and Power School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon 14th June 2022 Event organized as part of the Praxis-CFUL  Keynote Speakers: Keynote Speakers: João Constâncio (NOVA University Lisbon) Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick University) Much has been written regarding genealogy, either as a new …

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