Foucault News

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

French, A. Sites of Re-Enchantment: Sacred Space and Nature in Early 20th Century Europe (2022) Religions, 13 (2), art. no. 110 DOI: 10.3390/rel13020110 Abstract This essay analyses the relationship between healing, nature, and the sacred in the construction of “sacred space” or heterotopies at the beginning of the 20th century in Europe. Two examples of …

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Chakawata, W. Africa’s response to COVID-19: a governmentality in disguise masterclass? (2022) International Review of Sociology, . DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2028403 Abstract At the risk of oversimplification, virtually all research that scrutinizes COVID-19 is propelled by identical points of departures which chief in their assessment, portray how the pandemic accentuates the likelihood of illiberal or autocratic regimes …

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Tim Christiaens (2021), “Against the Republican Foucault: How to Establish an Affirmative Biopolitics of Care”, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 83 (4), 683-709. DOI: 10.2143/TVF.83.4.0000000 Open access link Abstract: In The Republic of the Living, Miguel Vatter argues that, at the end of the 1970s, Michel Foucault did not convert to but criticized neoliberalism from a republican …

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Umezurike, U.P. “Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2022) Men and Masculinities, . DOI: 10.1177/1097184X211063498 Abstract This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, …

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Wan, S.H. A Spectral Spectacle: Dutch Mannerist Portals at Amsterdam’s New Philanthropic Sites, 1581-1645 (2021) Early Modern Low Countries, 5 (2), pp. 332-365. DOI: 10.51750/EMLC11337 Abstract After Amsterdam’s late medieval Catholic monasteries were surrendered to the Protestant government in 1578, four of these properties were converted into an orphanage, a mental asylum, and two gender-specific …

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