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

Michel Foucault, Les hermaphrodites Édition d’Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Arianna Sforzini. Préface d’Arianna Sforzini, postface d’Éric Fassin Collection Bibliothèque des Histoires. Gallimard 2025 En 1978, Michel Foucault annonce un volume de son Histoire de la sexualité « consacré aux hermaphrodites ». Avec la réorientation de son enquête vers l’Antiquité, il y a renoncé. Demeure dans ses …

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Palti Elias J. Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. The Seeley Lectures. Cambridge University Press; 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. …

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Khan, S. R., Kelly, P., & Brown, S. (2025). The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2515021 ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the rights, roles and status of women are presented in Pakistan Studies textbooks (PSTs) for grades 9 …

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Koempel, A. (2025). “We didn’t used to be corporate medicine”: The jobification of United States healthcare. Human Organization, 1–12 https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2025.2519790 Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of “jobification” to examine how primary care medicine has transformed from a perceived calling into mechanistic, profit-driven work. Through qualitative research with family physicians in the United …

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PDF of CFP in English PDF of CFP in Spanish Círculo de Estudios Foucaultianos Call for Papers II INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON MICHEL FOUCAULT 50 YEARS OF ‘SURVEILLANCE AND PUNISHMENT’ November 25 and 26, 2025 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos [National University of San Marcos], Lima, Peru Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison …

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Thibaud, E. (2025). Reflections on techno-solutionism in education: Manifestations and causes. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2528852 Abstract Techno-solutionism refers to the belief that many of society’s ills can and should be solved by technology. This paper explores the ways techno-solutionism manifests itself in the field of education: for the past few decades, each new …

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 26.09.2025, 9:00h-13:00h (Graz local time) Link: https://unimeet.uni-graz.at/b/dus-xkx-sud-m3y Digital Archives as Spaces for Collaborative Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften Department of Digital Humanities Universität Graz A-8010 Graz, Elisabethstraße 59/III +43 316 380 -2292 dh@uni-graz.at https://digital-humanities.uni-graz.at/de/ PDF Flyer In recent years, scholars from various disciplines have been discussing …

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Leo McCann et al eds, Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies, Edward Elgar, 2025. [Ed: Several chapters cite Foucault] This expansive Encyclopedia provides a detailed overview of Critical Management Studies (CMS). This exciting and iconoclastic area of research and scholarship has had a major impact on the academic field of business and management studies, opening …

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Vincent Pak, Queer Correctives. Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore, Bloomsbury Press, 2025 Description Queer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. In Singapore, Christian discourses …

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