Foucault News

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

Davis, Mark. “”Is it Going to be Real?” Narrative and Media on a Pandemic.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [Online], 18.1 (2017): n. pag. Web. 2 Feb. 2020 DOI: 10.17169/fqs-18.1.2768 Open access Abstract: In this article, I examine the narrative-media nexus as it relates to pandemics. Communications feature in global public health …

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Knudsen, Sine Grønborg, and Peter Triantafillou. “Lifestylisation of the Social: The Government of Diabetes Care in Denmark.” Health, (January 2020). doi:10.1177/1363459319899454. Abstract: Since the 1970s, the public authorities of many OECD countries have emphasised the need for preventing lifestyle diseases and promoting the vigour of their populations. Based on the Foucauldian analytics of dispositive, we …

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Eric Schliesser, Foucault on the Idea of Europe (and Adam Smith, Hume & Kant), Digressions and Impressions, blog, 4 December 2019 [Editor Update 9 March 2026. Link above is to the page archived on the Wayback Machine] […] Foucault correctly discern the significance of Kant’s Perpetual Peace to Ordoliberal thought. (He mentions Kant’s essay on …

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Isabella Krysa, Mariana Paludi, Albert J. Mills, The racialization of immigrants in Canada – a historical investigation how race still matters (2019) Journal of Management History, 25 (1), pp. 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-09-2018-0048 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the discursive ways in which racialization affects the integration process of immigrants in present-day Canada. By drawing …

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Weare, A.M., Walkner, T.J., Tully, M. State of intervention: community stakeholder discourse on teen childbearing in Iowa (2019) Critical Public Health, 29 (2), pp. 205-214. DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2018.1440069 Abstract The state of teen childbearing in Iowa (USA) is positioned by community leaders as a discursive battleground for intervention. In 2015 meetings with community stakeholders, participants framed …

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Hovey, C. The moral aesthetics of compulsory ultrasound viewing and the theological future of abortion (2019) Studies in Christian Ethics, 32 (1), pp. 78-87. DOI: 10.1177/0953946818761245 Abstract By law, women seeking abortions in some US states must undergo compulsory ultrasound viewing. This article examines the moral significance of this practice, especially as understood by pro-life …

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Luz Valoyes-Chávez, On the making of a new mathematics teacher: professional development, subjectivation, and resistance to change (2019) Educational Studies in Mathematics, 100 (2), pp. 177-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-018-9869-5 Abstract Reform-based discourses in mathematics education have fabricated different subjectivities for teachers such as the “traditional” and the “new” teacher. Professional development programs are proposed as effective mechanisms …

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Tilli, J. Preaching as master’s discourse. A Foucauldian interpretation of Lutheran pastoral power (2019) Critical Research on Religion, 7 (2), pp. 113-129. DOI: 10.1177/2050303219848059 Abstract Michel Foucault acknowledged that the Reformation was a pastoral battle and a reorganization of pastoral power. He did not, however, analyze Protestantism much further. This article broadens the scope of …

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Rockhill, G., De León, J.P. Materialist deconstruction, anticolonial geographies, and the limits of genealogy: An interview on counter-history of the present (2019) Philosophy Today, 63 (1), pp. 217-235. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2019613263 Abstract In this wide-ranging interview, Gabriel Rockhill discusses his most recent book, Counter-History of the Present, in the broader context of his research to date …

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