Foucault News

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

Variyan, G., McKnight, L., & Charles, C. (2025). The subterranean masculinities of elite private boys’ schools. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 57(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2447534 ABSTRACT The #metoo movement has led to countless revelations of sexual misconduct across the globe. Schools have not been immune from such allegations and elite private boys’ schools in particular …

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Call for Papers Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research This panel is a part of 5th Congress of Young Science Gdansk, Poland, July 17-19, 2025 Moderator: Alessandro di Ludovico, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza Scientific supervisor: Alessandro di Ludovico, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza; Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco …

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Ryan, M. We’re only human after all: a critique of human-centred AI. AI & Society 40, 1303–1319 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01976-2 Abstract The use of a ‘human-centred’ artificial intelligence approach (HCAI) has substantially increased over the past few years in academic texts (1600 +); institutions (27 Universities have HCAI labs, such as Stanford, Sydney, Berkeley, and Chicago); in …

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William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics. A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, University of Chicago Press, 2024 A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and …

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Birtles, M. (2024). World-class education for the few: Analysing Japan’s designated national university corporation system policy discourse. Policy Futures in Education, 23(3), 582-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103241287276 (Original work published 2025) Abstract This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan’s Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames …

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Andrew, M. (2024). Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education. In: Rudolph, J., Crawford, J., Sam, CY., Tan, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54509-2_3 Abstract This chapter demonstrates how higher and vocational education have long faced and continue to face a more insidious crisis than COVID: …

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Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia. The Rhetoric of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been …

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Markoff, B. (2024). Beyond the discipline gap: the role of spectacular state violence in the discipline and punishment of Black and Indigenous children in US public schools. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(2), 132–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2378304 ABSTRACT Education research frequently measures and calls for an end to racial disparities in rates of US …

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Fung, C. K. M. (2025). Homophobic media or lesbian memories? Hong Kong queer women’ online debate over The First Girl I Loved. Continuum, 39(2), 363–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2462102 ABSTRACT Hong Kong cinema is known for producing bittersweet teenage lesbian stories, in which young lovers inevitably grow up to be married women leading heteronormative lives. The latest film …

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