Foucault News

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

Stuart Elden, Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available, Progressive Geographies, July 13, 2025 La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued much of Foucault and Defert’s personal library, which will soon …

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Constanza Ulriksen Moretti, Genealogy And Circulation of the Smart Cities Concept in Chile: An Urban Policy Failure? Finisterra, LX(128), 2025, e36321 ABSTRACT Although studies describe the circulation of the Smart Cities (SC) concept in Chile, research on how this concept emerges in the Chilean context remains scarce. Drawing on the policy mobility approach and Foucault’s …

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Call for Papers Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique (1963) and L’archeologie du savoir (1969), the recurrence of the term “archaeology” marks the centrality of this notion in the period when …

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Atkinson-Ross, C., & Wu, W. (2025). Inside the Chinese heterosexual matrix: lesbian and gay middle leaders’ experiences in Chinese schools. Gender and Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506356 ABSTRACT This paper employs feminist poststructuralist and queer theory to analyze the experiences of three gay and lesbian middle leaders in Chinese schools. Drawing on Butler’s heterosexual matrix, and Foucault’s …

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Xenofontos, C. (2025). Mathematical heterotopias: lessons from other-ed spaces for the mainstream classroom. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2508715 ABSTRACT Many mathematics classrooms worldwide often adhere to rigid, traditional practices that may serve some students effectively but risk disengaging others. In this paper, I draw on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to introduce the notion …

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Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation, Columbia University Press, 2025 Interview with the author in Columbia News, June 25, 2025 Interview with the author on the New Books Network, Jan 17, 2026 What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of …

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