Foucault News

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

Kaveh Dastooreh (2018) Ethical imagination and the new possibilities of subjectivity: a global perspective on the culture of the self and its evolution in Kurdistan, Reflective Practice DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2018.1539663 ABSTRACT This paper is written with the hope of not only presenting an ethics that could speak to some of our contemporary subjective and ethical issues …

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Stephen Legg and Deana Heath (Eds.), South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings, Cambridge University Press, 2018 Flyer – PDF This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South …

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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…

Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le CERFI : un étrange « inédit » 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 manuscrite …

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