Foucault News

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

Institut français de recherche sur le Japon Published on Jun 18, 2018 Conférence donnée à la Maison franco-japonaise le 21 mai 2018 Conférenciers : Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE (ENS Lyon, Institut français), Patrice MANIGLIER (univ. Paris Nanterre) Modérateur: Mathieu CAPEL (UMIFRE 19- MFJ) Dans la préface qu’il rédige en 1972, pour la réédition de son Histoire de …

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Editor: After the terrible news of the fire and because the banner of Foucault News is an image of Le Stryge, one of the chimera on top of Notre-Dame, I am reposting the photo below which appeared on the Facebook page of La Cinémathèque française. This article on the BBC news site lists what has survived …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Bruno Latour’s Où atterrir?, Mariana Valverde’s study of Michel Foucault, now in paperback, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Oeuvres – which i mainly got for the biography by Alain Boureau. Also in the pile is a second-hand copy of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours – and the Collège de France publication of that lecture. I had no…

Miller, E.R., Gkonou, C. Language teacher agency, emotion labor and emotional rewards in tertiary-level English language programs (2018) System, 79, pp. 49-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2018.03.002 Abstract Research on language teacher agency and language teacher emotions has demonstrated that both are central components of teacher identity and practice. However, few researchers have explored the co-constitutive effects of …

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Danielle Ringer, Courtney Carothers, Rachel Donkersloot, Jesse Coleman, Paula Cullenberg,For generations to come? The privatization paradigm and shifting social baselines in Kodiak, Alaska’s commercial fisheries (2018) Marine Policy, 98, pp. 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.009 Abstract This paper presents results from a study that explored a key threat to fisheries sustainability in Alaska – the graying of the …

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Critical Work Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT) Friday, April 19 12:15-2:15 pm Join the CCCCT and affiliated scholars on April 19th from 12:15-2:15 to hear about recent and on-going work in the field of critical theory. Scholars at the forefront of such research will present their current projects and discuss with other participants. …

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Ahlqvist, T. Dynamic elements in regional development: an explorative genealogical analysis of the region of Southwest Finland (2018) European Planning Studies, 26 (12), pp. 2427-2447. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1530198 Abstract The paper suggests an explorative interpretative approach for conceptualizing regional change based on Foucault’s theory of genealogy. The theoretical outline is built on two key concepts of …

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Vinge, H. Farmland conversion to fight climate change? Resource hierarchies, discursive power and ulterior motives in land use politics (2018) Journal of Rural Studies, 64, pp. 20-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.10.002 Abstract In December 2013, local politicians celebrated with a champagne toast as the municipality of Trondheim received permission from the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation …

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