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

Originally posted on CREALECTICS:
Call for Chapters for a collective book (including a symposium) Possibility, (Re)Generation, Care: Perspectives on Philosophical Health? Edited by Luis de Miranda[1]?and Elisabetta Basso This book is the first of its kind to explore the emerging concept of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care as distinct from, yet complementary to…

The Foucault Circle NL/BE invites you to join Professor Marcelo Hoffman for a talk on his latest book Date: April 26 2021 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Central European Time Location: Online (Zoom link shared upon registration) Registration via this form on Google forms Marcelo Hoffman, Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles …

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Murphy, Brendon. “Against wellbeing: The problem of resources, metrics and care of the self.” Alternative Law Journal (2021). Published 8 April 2021 10.1177/1037969X211007580 Abstract This article critically engages with the concept and practice of ‘wellbeing’. Over the last decade, managerial practices have broadly introduced ‘wellbeing’ policies into the workplace, including the legal workplace. While these …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RboeauVZcg Michel Foucault and the Social Contract, Chris Watkin with Stuart Elden and Mark Kelly – video of Monash discussion, 13 April 2021. Youtube video above, also available as a podcast. My talk was entitled ‘The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory’; Mark’s ‘Social Contract as Norm’. Internationally…

Falch, L.A. A career open to the talents—Nurses’ doing and focus during the history (2021) Nursing Philosophy, 22 (1). DOI: 10.1111/nup.12336 Abstract Based on a historical and a contemporary fieldwork at a Danish hospital, this article offers a genealogical and philosophical exploration of the development of nurses’ doing and focus within a hospital setting from …

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D. Lemus-Delgado, China and the battle to win the scientific narrative about the origin of COVID-19 (2020) Journal of Science Communication, 19 (5), pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.22323/2.19050206 Abstract The emergence of COVID-19 represented a critical problem for the legitimacy and prestige of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese authorities had to fight not only to …

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Chambers, S.A. Subject positions and seriality in the good wife, In Hudelet, Ariane, and Anne Crémieux, eds. Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television. Routledge, 2020., pp. 233-258. DOI: 10.4324/9781003044772-17 Abstract This chapter explores the cultural politics of the US network drama The Good Wife (2009-2016). By reading the idea of “the …

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Makarychev, A., Romashko, T. Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe: The COVID-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland (2021) Chinese Political Science Review, 6 (1), pp. 63-85. DOI: 10.1007/s41111-020-00165-y Abstract The paper addresses a puzzle resulting from the current global state of alert: the coronavirus pandemic brought us back to the world of the allegedly sovereign …

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