Foucault News

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

Schweber, L. Jack-in-the-black-box: Using Foucault to explore the embeddedness and reach of building level assessment method (2017) Energy Research and Social Science, 34, pp. 294-304. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.08.005 Abstract Environmental policy in Western countries is marked by extensive reliance on voluntary self-regulation, designed to influence market behavior. In many instances, these policy tools fail to deliver …

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Gerdin, G. ‘It’s not like you are less of a man just because you don’t play rugby’—boys’ problematisation of gender during secondary school physical education lessons in New Zealand (2017) Sport, Education and Society, 22 (8), pp. 890-904. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2015.1112781 Abstract Despite clear messages from current physical education (PE) curricula about the importance of adopting …

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Le Moment philosophique des années 1960 en France, Sous la direction de Patrice Maniglier, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011 Présentation Les années 1960 furent le théâtre de l’un des épisodes les plus brillants de l’histoire de la pensée philosophique en France. Elles s’ouvrirent sur le triomphe public du structuralisme, avec La Pensée sauvage de …

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Raaper, R. ‘Peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’: tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant subjectivity in a neoliberalised university (2017) British Journal of Sociology of Education, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1367269 Abstract Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) experiences of their work and subjectivity in a neoliberalised higher education environment. By …

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Burgess, C. ‘Having to say everyday … I’m not black enough … I’m not white enough’. Discourses of Aboriginality in the Australian education context (2017) Race Ethnicity and Education, 20 (6), pp. 737-751. DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1195353 Abstract This paper interrogates discourses of Aboriginality about, and by, early career Aboriginal teachers as they negotiate their emergent professional …

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Collective subjectivations and desubjectivations in the present (2017)

12 October 2017

Bouilloud, J.-P., Deslandes, G., Mercier, G. The Leader as Chief Truth Officer: The Ethical Responsibility of “Managing the Truth” in Organizations (2017) Journal of Business Ethics, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3678-0 Abstract Our aim is to analyze the position of the leader in relation to the ethical dimension of truth-telling within the organization …

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Macneill, P. Balancing bioethics by sensing the aesthetic (2017) Bioethics, 31 (8), pp. 631-643. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12390 Abstract This article is critical of “bioethics” as it is widely understood and taught, noting in particular an emphasis given to philosophical justification, reason and rationality. It is proposed that “balancing” bioethics be achieved by giving greater weight to …

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Jordan, T. A genealogy of hacking (2017) Convergence, 23 (5), pp. 528-544. DOI: 10.1177/1354856516640710 Abstract Hacking is now a widely discussed and known phenomenon, but remains difficult to define and empirically identify because it has come to refer to many different, sometimes incompatible, material practices. This article proposes genealogy as a framework for understanding hacking …

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Vappereau, M. (2014). Les Carnets de René Allio : une nécessaire publication. Sociétés & Représentations, 37,(1), 179-193. doi:10.3917/sr.037.0179. Les événements de la fin de l’année 2013, depuis le colloque de novembre à l’INHA jusqu’à l’exposition au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, permirent de faire redécouvrir René Allio, peintre, scénographe et cinéaste du second xxe siècle, et …

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