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

Michael Ledger-Lomas, Tracing the Hard Edges of Religion: On Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind” Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 June 2023 […] No historian has evoked more vividly the strange waltz between a transcendent faith and earthly powers in the centuries from Constantine to Muhammad (a period the book’s author named “late antiquity”) …

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Rust, J.R. Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’s Utopia (2023) Textual Practice DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2205708 Abstract Discourses of health and disease pervade More’s Utopia. The text insistently plays upon the ambiguities of salus, a term with a wide semantic range including spiritual salvation, the physical health of the individual body, and the …

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Heylen, K.B. Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code (2023) New Media and Society DOI: 10.1177/14614448231166057 Abstract Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code requires Google and Facebook to negotiate payments with news publishers for news content appearing on the platforms. Facebook and Google lobbied against the code through …

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Ashley, L., Perron, A. Examining the role of nurse executives in homecare through the lens of the Sociology of Ignorance and Critical Management Studies (2023) Nursing Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/nup.12445 Abstract This article presents a novel theoretical approach to explore nurse executives’ paradoxical identity and agency of executive and nurse in homecare organizations. This complex phenomenon …

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Harrahill, K., Macken-Walsh, Á., O’Neill, E. Prospects for the bioeconomy in achieving a Just Transition: perspectives from Irish beef farmers on future pathways (2023) Journal of Rural Studies, 100 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103020 Abstract Many beef farm systems in Irish and some global contexts have economic and environmental traits that threaten their future sustainability. In this context, …

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Giovana Carmo Temple, O acontecimento como uma saída à verdade da prática discursiva, Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo Neste artigo, desenvolvo uma reflexão da noção de acontecimento nos textos de Foucault, particularmente nos livros L’archéologie du savoir (1969) e L’ordre du discours (1971). O objetivo é mostrar como Foucault retoma …

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Marcio Luiz Miotto, Michel Foucault e “A questão antropológica” – precisões históricas e conceituais Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer algumas precisões históricas e conceituas em torno da formação da história arqueológica de Michel Foucault, tendo como foco um livro póstumo e recém lançado, intitulado La …

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Carol Bacchi, Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible, Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.2, No.1, 2012 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2012.21001 Open access Abstract This paper introduces the theoretical concept, problematization, as it is developed in Foucauldian-inspired poststructural analysis. The objective is two-fold: first, to show how a study of problematizations politicizes taken-for-granted “truths”; and second, to illustrate …

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Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, 3rd Edition, Polity, 2023 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and …

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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller, Lving Reference Work, Palgrave, 2020 About this book Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies. Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism. Highlights the ways in …

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