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

Centre Michel Foucault Présentation Le Centre Michel Foucault est une association fondée le 31 mai 1986 à l’initiative de chercheurs internationaux qui ont accompagné le développement du travail et de la pensée de Michel Foucault. Initialement créé pour rassembler documents, archives et travaux liés à l’œuvre de Foucault, pour faciliter et coordonner des recherches se …

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Christian William Callaghan, Critical perspectives on international pharmaceutical innovation: Malthus, Foucault and resistance (2019) Critical Perspectives on International Business, 15 (1), pp. 68-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2017-0078 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to argue that certain insights offered by Kuhn and Foucault may be of use to those seeking to resist a global paradigm of inequality in access …

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Bresnihan, P. Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans: Governmentality and the biopolitics of ‘improvement’ in the Irish and European fisheries (2019) Environment and Planning A, 51 (1), pp. 156-177. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18803110 Abstract Foucault’s account of the emergence of biopolitics in the late 18th century helps frame the political economy of ‘improvements’ as an environmental project linked …

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Pier Luigi Sacco, Sendy Ghirardi, Maria Tartari, Marianna Trimarchi, Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes (2019) Cities, 89, pp. 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.013 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to take part in the debate about power relationships in contemporary cities between the agents of urban renewal and …

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Ofer Parchev, Biopower, Sadomasochism, and Pastoral Power: Acceptance via Transgression (2019) Sexuality and Culture, 23 (1), pp. 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9563-x Abstract The transposition of biopower from the state to the individual has been a major preoccupation of biopower scholarship in recent decades. While some researchers have found grounds for optimism in the diminution of state control …

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Feldman, A.J. Power, labour power and productive force in Foucault’s reading of capital (2019) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45 (3), pp. 307-333. DOI: 10.1177/0191453718798416 Abstract This article uses Foucault’s lecture courses to illuminate his reading of Marx’s Capital in Discipline and Punish. Foucault finds in Marx’s account of cooperation a precedent for his own approach …

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Norbert Schaffeld, A Fictionalized Representation of Scientific Counter-Discourse: Jo Lendle’s Historical Science Novel Alles Land (2011) (2019) German Quarterly, 92 (1), pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12093 Abstract This paper explores a fictionalized series of past events in which a process of scientific discovery clearly contradicts the dominant academic discourse and is therefore bound to meet with powerful …

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Deborah N. Brewis, Duality and Fallibility in Practices of the Self: The ‘inclusive subject’ in diversity training (2019) Organization Studies, 40 (1), pp. 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618765554 Abstract The concept of ‘inclusion’ has been gaining ground in a field known as equality and diversity work. Scholars have begun to both theorise what this concept means as a …

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