Foucault News

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

Harvey, S.D.L., Gearity, B.T., Kuklick, C.R. Just keep swimming: setting the stage for disrupting the sports coaching épistémè (2020) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2020.1848330 Abstract Despite attempts to decrease mental illness in the United States, mental illness and death by suicide are still prevalent in the sports community. The most significant barrier to athletes seeking …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it would have been nice to commemorate this event a bit…

Moore, Alison Downham “Temporal Layering in the Long Conceptual History of Sexual Medicine: Reading Koselleck with Foucault”, Journal of the Philosophy of History (2019): 1-23 doi: 10.1163/18722636-12341428 Abstract This paper reflects on the challenges of writing long conceptual histories of sexual medicine, drawing on the approaches of Michel Foucault and of Reinhart Koselleck. Foucault’s statements …

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Daniele Lorenzini reviews Critique and Praxis Bernard E. Harcourt. Critique and Praxis: A Radical Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Actions. New York: Columbia University Press. 696 pp. Review by Daniele Lorenzini, Critical Inquiry, 16 December 2020 Open access If there is one dogma that most political philosophers and critical thinkers alike have shared in …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘ – The video abstract for this open access article is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGpBkZrd0k Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The translation was credited to Jacqueline Verdeaux, with Foucault acknowledged…

Ableism in Academia, Theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education Edited by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh Open access Rather than embracing difference as a reflection of wider society, academic ecosystems seek to normalise and homogenise ways of working and of being a researcher. As a consequence, ableism in academia is endemic. …

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Lee, S. F. (2020) Governing ‘disadvantage’ through funded early years places and reconfigured spaces. Journal of Early Childhood Research, Online December 11 DOI: 10.1177/1476718X20971322 Abstract: This article examines how the policy of funded early years places for ‘disadvantaged’ 2-year-olds (FNP) in England reconfigures spaces within early childhood and care (ECEC) in new ways of working …

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Moore, Alison Downham (2020), Foucault’s Scholarly Virtues and Sexuality Historiography. History, 105: 446-469. DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13015 Abstract This article looks at why many historians of sexuality appear dissatisfied with the level of theoretical precision in the field by considering the reception of Foucault’s approach and why some parts of it have been more difficult to assimilate …

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Michel Foucault, Interview with Madeleine Chapsal, The Journal of Continental Philosophy Translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 29-35 https://doi.org/10.5840/jcp2020876 Open access Abstract In this 1966 interview, published here in English translation for the first time, Michel Foucault positions himself as a representative of a ‘generation’ of French thinkers who …

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Asl, M.P. Spaces of change: Arab women’s reconfigurations of selfhood through heterotopias in Manal Al-Sharif’s daring to drive (2020) Kemanusiaan, 27 (2), pp. 123-143. DOI: 10.21315/KAJH2020.27.2.7 Open access Abstract Stereotypically depicted as unresisting and passive victims of oppressive power, Saudi women are generally considered as unable to effect changes to the patriarchal sociopolitical status quo. …

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