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

Hunkin, E. If not quality, then what? The discursive risks in early childhood quality reform (2018) Discourse, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2018.1453780 Abstract This paper reports on the findings of a genealogical study and argues that the global discourse of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is based on a number …

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El discurso intercultural como Campo de Disputa: ‘Terrorismo Mapuche’ Y Dispositivo Pedagógico De Etnicidad Autor: LEPE-CARRION, Patricio , Revista Historia y Justicia ISSN 0719-4153 revista.historiayjusticia.org N°11 – Santiago de Chile, octubre 2018, p. 315-347 Available academia.edu Palabras clave: Chile, educación, interculturalidad, mapuche, Post-dictadura, terrorismo En postdictadura, un nuevo escenario ha puesto en funcionamiento un discurso …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens – University of Minnesota Press, 2019 Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene…

Palacios, C. Freedom can also be productive: the historical inversions of ‘the conduct of conduct’ (2018) Journal of Political Power, 11 (2), pp. 252-272. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1478641 Abstract The Foucauldian conception of power as ‘productive’ has left us so far with a residual conception of freedom. The article examines a number of historical cases in which …

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Lilja, M., Vinthagen, S. Dispersed resistance: unpacking the spectrum and properties of glaring and everyday resistance (2018) Journal of Political Power, 11 (2), pp. 211-229. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1478642 Abstract Revisiting James C. Scott’s classification of forms of resistance, this paper argues that (hidden, subtle) everyday resistance is only one of many types of small-scale or individual …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
An unpublished piece by Foucault from 1974, “Émergence des equipment collectifs“, has recently been discovered and published online by Ici et Ailleurs, with an Introduction by Philippe Chevallier. Philippe kindly sent me the essay a few days before publication, as it explicitly links to the work Foucault did with Guattari’s…

Michel Foucault et le CERFI : un étrange « inédit » par Philippe Chevallier, Ici et ailleurs, 28 octobre 2018 En faisant l’inventaire des archives de son défunt collègue du département de philosophie de Paris 8 Kyril Ryjik, Alain Brossat est tombé sur un tapuscrit ronéotypé intitulé « Émergence des équipements collectifs. État d’avancement des travaux », avec la mention …

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Du 28 novembre 2018 au 30 novembre 2018 Bordeaux Une généalogie littéraire des pratiques de soi. Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Claude Mauriac Colloque international Université Bordeaux-Montaigne PDF PROGRAMME COLLOQUE Il s’agira dans le cadre de ce colloque de s’interroger, du point de vue de la littérature et de la philosophie, sur ce moment charnière de la …

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Sean R. Roberts,The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs (2018) Critical Asian Studies, 50 (2), pp. 232-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 Abstract This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist threat from this …

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