Foucault News

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

Krishnan, A.R., Jha, S. Writing bodies, wording illness and countering marginalization: graphic autopathographies as a genre (2022) Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2030381 Abstract The hegemonic oppression by biomedical discourses and erroneous cultural assumptions of degeneracy doubly marginalise the chronically ill and exclude them from domains of productivity. Personal narratives of lived illness …

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Heterotopia art exhibition in Erbil focuses on migration abroad by Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Kurdistan 24, 2022/05/24 ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The “Heterotopia” art exhibition began on May 15 in the Cihan art gallery at Cihan University in Erbil. It focuses on the culture of migration abroad and will continue until June 15. Artist Ahmad Nabaz …

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Li, S. A Foucauldian Power Analysis of China’s Confucius Institute in Africa: Power, Knowledge and the Institutionalisation of China’s Foreign Policy (2022) Journal of Asian and African Studies DOI: 10.1177/00219096221086546 Abstract The Confucius Institute (CI) was established in 2004 by China to disseminate its language, culture and other forms of positive knowledge to people of …

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Francesca Peruzzo, Stephen J Ball, Emiliano Grimaldi, Peopling the crowded education state: Heterarchical spaces, EdTech markets and new modes of governing during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 114, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102006 Abstract In this paper, we examine a set of complexly related education policy issues that concern changes to the form and …

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Zelinka, J. (2022). Subjects and Subjectivities of the (New) Geopolitics of Knowledge. In: Parreira do Amaral, M., Thompson, C. (eds) Geopolitical Transformations in Higher Education. Educational Governance Research, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94415-5_15 Abstract The educational processes worldwide are said to be shaped by neoliberal logic of knowledge-production. In a continuously globalised world, the competition …

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Šabec, K., Mencin, M., Perger, N. A Dry Branch on the Nation’s Body: The Nation’s Biological Reproduction between Gender and Sexuality (2021) Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies, 87, pp. 69-85. DOI: 10.36144/RiG87.dec21.69-85 Abstract The article proceeds from the thesis that discriminatory discourses in the field of gender and sexuality in Slovenia are based …

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Tanke, Joseph. “The Gentle Way in Governing: Foucault and the Question of Neoliberalism.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, (April 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221079673. Abstract This essay challenges some of the recent scholarship which claims that Michel Foucault was more sympathetic to neoliberalism than is typically acknowledged. Accordingly, it considers the possible motivations for Foucault’s 1978-1979 lecture course, The …

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Friedrich, J. Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies (2022) Political Theory DOI: 10.1177/00905917211065064 Abstract What are we to make of the fact that world leaders, such as Canada’s Justin Trudeau, have, within the last few decades, offered official apologies for a whole host of past injustices? Scholars have …

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Woo, E. What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis (2022) Journal of Education Policy DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2045038 Abstract Underlying current research on China’s world-class university (WCU) policy approaches are analytical foci that privilege the agency of social actors and the problem-solving approach to policy analysis. Foucauldian poststructuralists draw …

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