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

Jessop, B. State theory (2022) Handbook on Theories of Governance, pp. 77-88. Abstract This chapter reviews some scholarly approaches to governance inspired by different accounts of the state and state power and proposes a new approach based on the strategic-relational approach. It assesses the unproductive distinction between state-centric and society-centric perspectives, evaluates whether a governance-centric …

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A. Colombo, La chair selon Michel Foucault le « retour» de l’expérience et l’élaboration de la subjectivité (2021) Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques, 105 (3), pp. 353-379. https://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rspt.1053.0353 Résumé La définition de la chair comme une « expérience » constitue une des principales contributions conceptuelles des Aveux de la chair, quatrième volume de l’Histoire …

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Convocatoria completa disponible AQUÍ Primera Circular En el 2021 se cumplieron cincuenta años de la publicación del Nietzsche, la genealogía, la historia. Entendida como metodología, la genealogía involucra una apuesta inactual y exigente. Va contrapelo del mandado que impone dejar de lado toda referencia al pasado. Trabaja sobre unas “historias ya escritas” y demanda cierta certeza …

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Alexander J. Means & Yuko Ida (2022) Education after empire: A biopolitical analytics of capital, nation, and identity, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54:7, 882-891 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1803836 Abstract As it emerged in the late twentieth century, Empire promised a new era of global cooperation and stability through a seamless integration of late capitalism and neoliberal technocracy. …

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Christian Ruby, Un cours inédit de Michel Foucault : les conditions de l’anthropologie, Nonfiction, 07 juin 2022 Les manuscrits inédits d’un cours de Michel Foucault prononcé en 1954 exhument les prémices de sa réflexion sur la possibilité d’une connaissance de l’homme, c’est-à-dire d’une anthropologie. Le manuscrit de Michel Foucault (1926-1984) édité sous le titre La …

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Michel Foucault, La Question anthropologique. Cours, 1954-1955, Paris, Seuil, Gallimard, EHESS, 2022 Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? Michel Foucault, au mitan des années 1950, consacre une partie de son enseignement, dispensé à l’université de Lille et à l’École normale supérieure, à comprendre comment cette interrogation a traversé et transformé la philosophie. Ces leçons sont rassemblées dans …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The final book in my series of studies of Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, is due for publication with Polity in December 2022. On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these significant…

Timothy Konoval, Jim Denison & Joseph Mills (2019) The cyclical relationship between physiology and discipline: one endurance running coach’s experiences problematizing disciplinary practices, Sports Coaching Review, 8:2, 124-148, DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2018.1487632 ABSTRACT There have been numerous calls by coaching researchers for Foucauldian-informed coach developers to help coaches change their practices to be less reliant on discipline’s …

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Rashid, M.A. Altruism or nationalism? Exploring global discourses of medical school regulation (2022) Medical Education DOI: 10.1111/medu.14804 Abstract Background: Although medical school regulation is ubiquitous, the extent to which it should be based on global principles is unclear. In 2010, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) announced that from 2023, overseas doctors would …

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Brenner, D., Tazzioli, M. Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics (2022) International Studies Quarterly, 66 (2) DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqac007 Abstract Rebel groups govern significant parts of territory worldwide. They often deliver crucial public goods and services to populations under their control. Scholarship on rebel governance commonly explains this with the need for …

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