Foucault News

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

Hansen, M.P., Triantafillou, P. Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity (2022) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310221078926 Abstract This article seeks to provide a set of pointers for methodological reflections on Foucauldian-inspired analyses of the exercise of power. Michel Foucault deliberately eschewed methodological schemata, which …

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The legacy of deconstructivism “makes me want to retreat to the back of the room” says Bernard Tschumi Tom Ravenscroft | Dezeen, 23 May 2022 Deconstructivism was built on intellectual rigour and a desire for exploration that contemporary architects do not share, says French-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi in this exclusive interview as part of our …

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Mills, J.P., Gearity, B., Kuklick, C., Bible, J. Making Foucault coach: turning post-structural assumptions into coaching praxis (2022) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2057696 Abstract Foucauldian-inspired coaching practices have been a recent focus in the Foucauldian coaching studies literature. There can be no denying the emergence of a number of ethical coaching practices in synergy with …

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Salinas-Arreortua, L.A., Alcantar-García, E.A. Reflexions on public space from disciplinary and regulatory mechanisms statement by Foucault [Reflexiones sobre el espacio público desde los mecanismos disciplinarios y de regulación enunciados por Foucault] (2022) Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 34 (2), pp. 817-834. DOI: 10.5209/aris.75811 Abstract Public space, understood as a space for socialization and construction of critical …

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Janaína Quinzen Willrich, Luciane Prado Kantorski, Ariane da Cruz Guedes, Carmen Terezinha Leal Argiles, Marta Solange Streicher, Janelli da Silva, Dariane Lima Portela, The (mis)government in the COVID-19 pandemic and the psychosocial implications: discipline, subjection, and subjectivity (2022) Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP. DOI: 10.1590/1980-220X-REEUSP-2021-0550 Abstract OBJECTIVE: to analyze the psychosocial implications arising …

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Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski, The failure of May 1968, Unherd, May 24, 2022 “What defines our public life today is boredom”. That was a Le Monde front-page headline in March 1968. Two months later, a revolution would erupt that would shake the foundations of the Fifth Republic, divide France, and alter its history forever. […] In June, …

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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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