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

Special Issue: Biopolítica, segurización y gubernamentalidad, Revista Mexicana De Análisis Político Y Administración Pública, Vol. 7, núm. 2 (2018) Open access Tabla de contenidos Índice Índice PDF 1-2 Presentación Presentación PDF José de Jesús Ramírez Macias, Cuauhtémoc N. Hernández Martínez 3-10 Autor invitado La frontera incorporada: espacio, cuerpo y seguridad PDF Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo 13-32 …

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5th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology The Philosophy of the Life Sciences.Biology and Medicine Through the Prism of Historical Epistemology Paris, 16-17-18 May 2019 École doctorale de Philosophie (ED 280 – Paris 1) Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne, Institut des sciences Juridique & Philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 CNRS – Paris 1) …

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M. Habib Qazi, Saeeda Shah, Discursive construction of Pakistan’s national identity through curriculum textbook discourses in a Pakistani school in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (2019) British Educational Research Journal, 45 (2), pp. 275-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3496 Abstract This study investigates Pakistan’s secondary school children’s constructions of their national identity in a Pakistani school in Dubai by …

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Behrendt, S. This Is Not an Improvisation: Letitia Landon and the Slipperiness of Taxonomy (2019) European Legacy, 24 (3-4), pp. 283-300. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2018.1562667 Abstract Writing in 2007, in The Wordsworth Circle, Jeffrey Robinson remarked on the “ephemerality” of improvisational poetry, its fundamental resistance to being “preserved.” Printed poetry is typically regarded as “fixed” and static: …

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Mitchell Dean, What is Economic Theology? A New Governmental-Political Paradigm? (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (3), pp. 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418787622 Abstract Countering claims of its impossibility, this paper argues for economic theology as an intelligible figure of contemporary political rationality and organization, and a distinctive analytical strategy in relation to forms of liberal and neoliberal …

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Clare Butler, Working the ‘wise’ in speech and language therapy: Evidence-based practice, biopolitics and ‘pastoral labour’ (2019) Social Science and Medicine, 230, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.038 Abstract This paper examines how power and knowledge are involved in the workings of speech and language therapy and in the work of speech and language therapists (SLTs). The paper …

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Ostrowicka, H., Stankiewicz, Ł. The truths of business and the lies of academia: the order of discourse on higher education in Poland (2019) Higher Education Research and Development, 38 (3), pp. 609-622. DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1545746 Abstract This article presents the results of an analysis of hierarchization strategies in public debate over unemployment among university graduates. The …

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Pensar con Foucault hoy Compiladores: Agustín Colombo, Cristina López, Marcelo Raffin, UNSAM Edita, 2019 Michel Foucault murió en 1984 pero su obra no ha dejado de expandirse y suscitar interés y discusión. Con la publicación de los cursos dictados en el Collège de France entre 1970 y 1984, durante las últimas dos décadas, el interés …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I have three upcoming talks on Shakespeare. The first is the Fourth Denis Cosgrove lecture in the GeoHumanities, to be given at the British Academy on 23 May 2019, 6.30pm. I was asked to speak about the Shakespearean Territories book, and I will say something about that, but I’m also going to…