Foucault News

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

Whyte, J. The invisible hand of Friedrich Hayek: Submission and spontaneous order (2019) Political Theory, 47 (2), pp. 156-184. DOI: 10.1177/0090591717737064 Abstract Friedrich Hayek’s account of “spontaneous order” has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to …

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Valerie Harwood and Nyssa Murray, Strategic discourse production and parent involvement: including parent knowledge and practices in the Lead My Learning campaign (2019) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23 (4), pp. 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1571119 Abstract Parent involvement in a child’s education is usually viewed as integral for building educational participation. Critical work has examined the complexity …

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Myles, D., Cherba, M., Millerand, F. Situating Ethics in Online Mourning Research: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies, (2019) Qualitative Inquiry, 25 (3), pp. 289-299. DOI: 10.1177/1077800418806599 Abstract In the past decade, social media have put mourning practices at the forefront of daily life in ways that challenge assumptions made about the public disclosure of …

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Frost, T. The dispositif between Foucault and Agamben (2019) Law, Culture and the Humanities, 15 (1), pp. 151-171. DOI: 10.1177/1743872115571697 Abstract This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article’s focus is on both philosophers’ …

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Vicente L. Rafael (2019), The Sovereign Trickster, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 78, No. 1 (February) 2019: 141–166. doi:10.1017/S0021911818002656 Abstract In our current moment, authoritarian figures loom large. One of them is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. He seems to embody two notions of sovereignty. One is related to law, the other to norms: on …

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Susan L. Johnson, Workplace bullying, biased behaviours and performance review in the nursing profession: A qualitative study (2019) Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28 (9-10), pp. 1528-1537. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14758 Abstract Aims and objectives: To explore staff nurses’ discourses of workplace bullying, to critically examine how these discourses affect their responses to bullying. Background: Workplace bullying has been …

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Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles, Ranking Web of Universities, Tenth Edition [Editor: See also my January 2025 post on this topic.] [Editor. Update 8 February 2026. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine only started indexing the Ranking Web of …

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Marlon Salomon, “Eso no es un libro de historia”: Michel Foucault y la publicación de documentos de archivos, Topoi (Rio de Janeiro). vol.20 no.40 Rio de Janeiro Jan./Apr. 2019 DOI: 10.1590/2237-101×020040011 Open access RESUMO Entre 1973 e 1982, Michel Foucault dedicou-se à publicação de documentos de arquivo. Em 1973, publicou o memorial de Rivière; em …

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Petri, O. Discipline and Discretionary Power in Policing Homosexuality in Late Imperial St. Petersburg (2019) Journal of Homosexuality, 66 (7), pp. 937-969. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2018.1485302 Abstract This article explores queer sexual policing in late Imperial St. Petersburg (c.1900–1917). The focus is on the street-level constables who bore the principal responsibility for policing male homosexual offenses in …

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